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- abraham lincoln
- 16th U.S. President. 1861-1865 (Assassinated). Republican National Union
- wwI
- Machine Gun: helped stalemate. Women: kept economy going. Innvolvment of US: when Germay sunk Lusitania; zimmerman note. Archduke Ferdinand: Led to AH declarign war on Serbia, killed by Black Hand. Dates: 1914-1919.
- theodore roosevelt
- 26th U.S. President. 1901-1909. Republican
- reconstruction
- the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- korean war
- a war between North and South Korea
- progressive movement
- reform effort, generally centered in urban areas and begun in the early 1900s, whose aims included returning control of the government to the people, restoring economic opportunities, and correcting injustices in American life.
- vietnam war
- the conflict in which South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. was defeated by Communist North Vietnam
- kent state shootings
- In April of 1970, police fired into an angry crowd of college students at Kent State University. Four students were killed and many others were wounded. The students were protesting against Nixon ordering US troops to seize Cambodia without consulting Congress.
- gilded age
- 1900-1920, gilded the politicians, rail roads and America to all the immigrants
- john F. kennedy
- US President 1960-1963
- dwight D. eisenhower
- american general who began in n. africa and became commander of allied forces in europe
- emilio aguinaldo
- Filipino who was lead both the Phillipine revolution against Spain and then the United States
- douglas mcarthur
- commander in chief of US forces in the Pacific Theater of operations, Left the Philipines vowing
- wwII
- war in which commies and nationalists unite to fight japan
- frederick douglas
- a former slave who made speeches to tell others why freedom was a right all people should have
- george patton
- american general who led the third army to liberate paris
- civil war
- War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865
- henry ford
- introduced the low priced Model T in 1908 and by 1916 700,000 had been sold.
- spanish american war
- A war found in 1898 between the United States and Spain