Top 40 APUSH

Truman Doctrine

Spanish - American war

First voyage of Columbus

Yalta Conference; V-E Day and V-J day end WW2

Jamestown was founded

Election of McKinley; End of the populist movement

American Civil War

Election of Franklin Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor; US enters World War 2

Progressive Era

Bush V. Gore supreme court decision

Declaration of Independence

“Manifest Destiny” reaches peak

End of Cold War; fall of Berlin Wall and political changes in Eastern Europe

Americans Held Hostage in Iran for 444 days

Census bureau announces the end of the frontier

Peace of Paris ends French and Indian War

Assassination of John Kennedy

Election of Jefferson; Transfer of power to new political party

Crash of stock market marks beginning of great depression

Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Tet offensive; Anti-war demonstrations; Riots at Democratic Convention; Assassinations of MLK and RFK

Resignation of Richard Nixon; Watergate

Compromise of 1850 delays Civil War for 10 years

Critical Period (Articles of Confederation)

Trail of Tears (Cherokee Indian Removal)

Defeat of Spanish Armada by England

Sputnik

Korean Conflict

Establishment of Formal Relations with China

Election of Andrew Jackson

World War 1

Direct Involvement by US in Vietnam

Pilgrims arrival at Plymouth in New England

Ratification of US Constitution; New government established

Gulf war

Election of Lincoln; Beginning of Southern seccession

Election of Ronald Reagan marks conservative political swing

Jefferson purchases Louisiana from the French

Reconstruction period in American South