Fall of the Western Roman Empire | Rise of Feudalism |
Viking Raids on Britain and France | Founding of Medieval Universities in Bologna and Paris |
The Crusades | The First Parliament of England |
The Black Death | The Renaissance |
The Printing Press | The Gutenberg Bible |
The Spanish Inquisition | The Protestant Reformation |
American Slavery Begins in Jamestown Virginia | The Enlightenment |
Salem Witch Trials | The Industrial Revolution |
American Revolution | Abolitionist Movements |
Ratification of the US Constitution | The French Revolution |
End of Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808 | Trail of Tears |
Civil War | Emancipation Proclamation |
13th Amendment Abolished Slavery | 14th Amendment Grants Equal Protection Under the Law to All Citizens |
15th Amendment Granted Black Men the Right to Vote | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
Progressive Era of 1890s-1920s | Women's Suffrage Movement |
World War I | The Russian Revolution |
Roaring Twenties | 19th Amendment Grants Women Right to Vote |
Jazz Age | Rise of Fascism and Nazism |
Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Great Depression |
New Deal of the 1930s | Prohibition |
World War II | The Holocaust |
GI Bill of 1944 | Post WWII Baby Boom |
Post WWII Decolonization in Africa and Asia | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Emergence of Rock and Roll | Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Civil Rights Movement of 1960s | Counterculture of the 1960s |
Cuban Missile Crisis | Assassination of President Kennedy |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Vietnam War |
Anti-War Protests of 1960s | Assassination of Malcolm X |
Establishment of Medicare and Medicaid | Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. |
American Indian Movement | Emergence of Punk Rock |
Fair Housing Act of 1968 | Stonewall Riots |
Woodstock Festival and the Height of the Hippie Movement | Women's Liberation Movement |
Rise of the Environmental Movement | Clean Air Act |
Title IX Prohibits Sex-based Discrimination in Education | Watergate Scandal |
Clean Water Act | Roe v. Wade |
Hip-hop Movement in Music & Culture | Reagan-era and late 20th-century Conservatism |
HIV/AIDS Epidemic | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
Americans with Disabilities Act | Collapse of the Soviet Union |
End of Apartheid in South Africa | Gulf War |
Rodney King Riots of 1992 | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy |
The End of Apartheid | Oklahoma City Bombing |
Internet Age | Digital Age |
Kyoto Protocol of 1997 | Y2K Scare |
9/11 Terrorist Attacks | War on Terror |
Emergence of Social Media | Hurricane Katrina |
Great Recession of 2008 | Emergence of Identity Politics |
Syrian Civil War Refugee and Migration Crisis | Black Lives Matter Movement |
Same-sex Marriage Legalized via Obergefell v. Hodges ruling |
