Thematic Timeline - AMERICA IN THE WORLD

Example of a thematic timeline for "America in the World"

1840

~U.S. confronts Mexico and Britain; annexes Texas (1845), acquires Oregon (1846), fights Mexican War (1846-1848) extending U.S. borders to Pacific

1850

~President Pierce opens Japan to trade; seeks to expand American territory and slavery into Caribbean by diplomacy and filibustering actions

1860

~U.S. diplomacy and Union army victories in 1863 cause British government to stop sale of ironclad ships to the Confederacy

~Secretary of State Seward buys Alaska from Russia (1867)

~Burlingame Treaty (1868) protects missionaries in China and limits Chinese immigration

1870

~Britain pays the U.S. $15.5 million for the depredations of the Alabama during the war

~Anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco in late 1870s prompt Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

1890

~Congress funds construction of modern battleships

~U.S.-backed planters overthrow Hawaii's queen (1892)

~U.S. wins War of 1898 against Spain; claims Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines

1900

~U.S. war against Philippine revolutionaries

~Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine (1904)

1910

~Wilson intervenes in Mexico (1914)

~Panama Canal opened (1914)

~United States enters WWI (1917)

~War ends; Wilson seeks to influence peace treaty negotiations (1918)

1920

~Heydey of "dollar diplomacy"

~U.S. occupation of Haiti and other Caribbean and Central American nations

1930

~Rise of European fascist powers

~Japan invades China (1937)

1940

~United States enters WWII (1941)

~Atomic bombing of Japan and end of WWII (1945)

~United Nations founded (1945)

~Truman Doctrine

~Israel created (1947)

~Marshall Plan (1948)

~Containment strategy emerges

~NATO created; West Germany created (1949)

1950

~Permanent mobilization as a result of NSC-68

~Korean War (1950-1953)

~Geneva Accords regarding Vietnam (1954)

1960

~Cuban missile crisis (1962)

~Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

~Johnson sends ground troops to Vietnam; war escalates (1965)

~Tet offensive (1968); peace talks begin

1970

~Nixon invades Cambodia (1971)

~Paris Accords end Vietnam War (1973)

~Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel (1978)

~Iranian Revolution (1979) and hostage crisis (1979-1981)

1980

~Ronald Reagan begins arms buildup

~United States arms Contras in Nicaragua

~Berlin Wall comes down (1989)

1990

~Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)

~USSR breaks apart; end of Cold War

~Al Qaeda bombs World Trade Center (1993)

~UN peacekeeping forces in Bosnia (1992-1995)

2000

~Al Qaeda attacks World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)

~United States and Allies invade Afghanistan (2002)

~United States invades Iraq (2004)

2010

~Arab Spring (2010-2012)

~Osama bin Laden killed (2011)

~Last combat troops withdrawn from Iraq (2011)