the social studies teacher is put to work again! i made him help me develop this list of historical events in the usa i should be familiar with.

• 1607
  • jamestown founded (first permanent settlement in the americas)
• 1763
  • british win french and indian war (america and canada become british colonies)
• 1776
  • declaration of independence (declared independence from great britain)
• 1789
  • george washington elected first president (first president under the consitution)
• 1865
  • north wins civil war (slavery abolished)
  • president lincoln assassinated
• 1915
  • rms lusitania sunk (usa begins alliance with britain and france)
• 1917
  • usa joins allies in world war I (aligned with britain, france, and russia)
• 1918
  • world war I ends (signed an armistice to stop fighting)
• 1929
  • usa stock market crashes (great depression started)
• 1941
  • japan attacks pearl harbor (usa enters world war II)
• 1945
  • allies (britain, soviet union, and usa) defeat axis (japan and germany)
  • usa drops atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki (only atomic bombs ever used in war)
  • usa and soviet union divide germany (created east and west germany)
  • cold war starts (usa versus soviet union)
• 1946
  • baby boom starts (huge population increase)
• 1954
  • brown versus board of education (schools in the usa integrated; first step in the civil rights movement)
• 1960
  • baby boom ends (population steady)
• 1961
  • cuban missile crisis (usa and soviet union almost went to nuclear war over missiles in cuba)
• 1963
  • president kennedy assassinated (lee harvey oswald suspected)
  • civil rights march in washington (mlk "i have a dream" speech)
• 1965
  • usa enters war in vietnam (to stop domino effect of communism)
• 1968
  • martin luther king, junior assassinated (greatest civil rights leader in our country)
  • robert f kennedy assassinated (probably would've been elected president)
• 1973
  • usa leaves vietnam (we lost)
• 1974
  • nixon resigns due to watergate (republicans stole information from democrats and nixon covered it up)
• 1991
  • end of cold war (victory)
• 1999
  • clinton impeached (lied under oath in lewinsky case)
• 2001
  • 9/11 (terrorist attack on twin towers in nyc)
• 2003
  • usa invades iraq (operation iraqi freedom)
• 2008
  • barack obama elected president (first non-white president)