KEELEY LIBRARY MICROFICHE: GREAT EVENTS TWO

 Keeley Library                               June 11, 1998
Cvil War and Reconstruction
No. 1 Dred Scott Decision 1857
No. 2 John Brown's Raid 1859
No. 3 The Emancipation Proclamation 1862
No. 4 New York Draft Riots 1863
No. 5 The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments 1868
No. 6 K. K. K. Outrages and Hearings 1871
No. 7 "Boss" Tweed Ring 1870-1871
The Gilded Age
No. 8 The Panic of 1873
No. 9 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia 1876
No. 10 Haymarket Riot 1886
No. 11 Pullman Strike 1894
 

 

Imperialism and the Prelude to War
No. 12 The Sinking of the Maine 1898
No. 13 The Open Door Policy 1899; and the Boxer Rebellion 1900
No. 14 The Sinking of the Titanic 1914
No. 15 Opening of the Panama Canal 1914
 

 

World War I
No. 16 The Sinking of the Lusitania 1915
No. 17 Election of 1916; "He Kept Us Out of War"
No. 18 Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917-1918
No. 19 Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations 1919
The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
No. 20 Women's Suffrage 1920
No. 21 Prohibition Era 1919-1933
No. 22 Sacco and Vanzetti 1920-1927
No. 23 Teapot Dome Scandal 1922-23
No. 24 Lindbergh Flight and Kidnapping 1927
No. 25 The Stock Market Crash 1929
No. 26. Admiral Byrd's Expedition to the South Pole 1929
No. 27 Tennessee Valley Authority 1933
World War II
No. 28 Hindenburg Disaster 1936
No. 29 F.D.R.'s Court "Packing" 1937
No. 30 Munich Pact and the Berlin-Moscow Agreement 1938
No. 31 Pearl Harbor 1941
No. 32 Potsdam Conference 1945
No. 33 The Bombing of Hiroshima 1945
No. 34 Nuremberg Trials 1945
The Cold War and Civil Rights
No. 35 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan 1947
No. 36 Truman Recalls MacArthur from Korea 1951
No. 37 The Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954
No. 38 Brown vs. the Board of Education 1954
No. 39 Sputnik 1957
No. 40 Alaska and Hawaii Statehood 1959
No. 41 Bay of Pigs 1961; The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
No. 42 "I have a dream." Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington 
1963
Vietnam in the Age of Aquarium
No. 43 My Lai 1968
No. 44 Woodstock 1969 
No. 45 Man of the Moon 1969
No. 46 Kent State 1970
No. 47 Attica 1971
No. 48 Pentagon Papers 1971

Watergate and After
No. 49 The Nixon Resignation 1974
No. 50 Vietnamese Immigration 1975

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