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Dawes Act
Enacted by President Grover Cleveland, the Dawes Act authorized the president to take ownership of reserved native lands. This led to the assimilation of natives and their loss of culture. -
Henry Ford creates the assembly line
Ford's assembly line revolutionized manufacturing with its efficiency on production, leading to lower prices and mass production. -
Start of World War I
Sparked from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, creating alliances and global conflict between the Allies and Central Powers. -
Hitler’s appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler had restructured the Nazis to idealize elections with power and had spread Nazi propaganda. This heavily contributed to his win as Chancellor as the Nazis had grown to be the largest leading political party in Germany. -
The Cold War
A period of political tension between the U.S and Soviet Union that did not involve military conflict. This consisted of the Space Race and the isolation and fear of Communism. -
9/11
Orchestrated by al-Qaeda, 9/11 was a series of terrorist attacks using hijacked commercial planes that would be crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. -
Barack Obama is elected president
Barack Obama is the first African American to hold office and the 44th president. -
COVID-19 Pandemic
Originating from Wuhan, China, COVID-19 had an outbreak in December 2019 before going worldwide in 2020. COVID was 10 times more deadly than the common flu.