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
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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
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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
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September, 1978 to June, 2001