2007-01-28 14:21:15 · 5 answers · asked by chuck o 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
1607 - Jamestown, VA
1619 - first representative government on American soil - The House of Burgesses in Virginia.
1620 - Plymoth Rock, MA
1775 - Revolutionary War begins
1783 - Treaty of Paris ends the war
1776 - Declaration of Independence
1789 - U.S. Constitution takes effect
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1812 - War of 1812
1814 - Treaty of Ghent ends war
1830-42 - The Trail of Tears
1836 - Battle of the Alamo
1846 - U.S. - Mexican War begins
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends war
1849 - California gold rush
1859 - John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry
1859 - Hanging of John Brown
1860 - Election of Abraham Lincoln
1861 - Civil War begins
1865 - The Confederacy surrendered
1865 - Lincoln assassinated
1876 - Custer's Last Stand
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre
1898 - USS Maine sank
1898 - Spanish - American War begins
1898 - Treaty of Paris ends the war
1901 - McKinley assassinated
1915 - Lusitania sank
1917 - U.S. enters WWI
1919 - Treaty of Versailles ends war
1922-29 - Teapot Dome Scandal
1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1929 - Stock Market Crash (Great Depression begins)
1933-37 - New Deal programs under FDR
1941 - Pearl Harbor attacked
1941 - U.S. enters WWII
1945 - U.S. drops first atomic weapons in anger
1945 - WWII ends
1945 - United Nations founded
1947 - Cold War begins
2007-01-28 14:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For God's sake, the Cold War started upon the finish of World War II. So, pick anything befroe August 1945 and you can't miss.
2007-01-28 22:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of question is this? You could fill a 900 gig hard drive with answers.
2007-01-28 22:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try studying your history.
2007-01-28 22:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by John H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WWII
2007-01-28 22:24:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mike G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋