Sunday, January 11, 2015
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Freedom Riders (1961)
Memorial Day
Honoring those who lost their lives serving their country
Vietnam War
Combat helicopters
Joseph McCarthy
Hearings on susupected communists in US
Nuremberg Trials
Begin November 19, 1945 on four separate indictments including crimes against humanity
The Holocaust
D Day June 6, 1944
Eisenhower speaks to the troops
Homefront:: Rationing during the war
Support of the war effort: limits on items such as coffee, sugar, and gasoline
Reaction to Pearl Harbor
anti Japanese sentiment will lead to internment camps
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona
Political cartoon: Packing the Court
FDR's plan was to add six justices to the Supreme Court
Great Depression
Political cartoon (1931)
Roaring Twenties
Live life to the fullest!
The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition: "The Noble Experiment"
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
Armistice Day- the Great War ends
Propaganda Poster
Supporting the war effort
Zimmerman Telegram
German telegram to Mexico reveals plot to include U. S.
A contemporary picture of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
the "spark" that would start the Great War
Martin Luther King
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35
Panama Canal
Construction will conclude in 1914
Yellow Journalism: Spanish American War
USS Maine in Havana, Cuba, explodes on February 15, 1898
Women's Suffrage
Trying to pass the 19th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
NYC Infamous Triangle Factory Fire
Will lead to new fire safety regulations
The Nativists
"Old" versus "New" Immigrants
Ellis Island
1905
Veterans Day
Originally known as Armistice Day- ending WWI
Pullman Strike (1894)
Cleveland issues an injunction
Andrew Carnegie
Philanthropist
Cross of Gold Speech Political Cartoon
Populist Candidate William Jennings Bryan (1896)
Promontory Point
The meeting of the RR lines that will link the East and West Coasts
Billy the Kid
Infamous young outlaw of the Old West
Sharecropping
Mississippi (1908)
Andrew Johnson political cartoon
His veto of the Freedmens Bureau
Lincoln Assassinated at Ford's Theater
The country mourns this great man
Candor, NY
E pluribus unum: Phrase on Seal of the United States
"Out of many, one"
The Flooding in Candor: 2011
Aerial view of the Jr. Sr. High School