domestic+and+international+conflicts


 * ** (April 1775 - September 3, 1789) American Revolution: ** war for independence against Britain - DEMOCRACY!


 * (** 1786) Shays's Rebellion: ** reevaluate Articles of Confederation - financial crisis


 * ** (1794) Whiskey Rebellion: ** excess taxation - protest instead of resorting to violence - national power


 * ** (1797) The Quasi War: ** war with France - ally with Britain (Jay Treaty) - power of independent US


 * (** 1812) War of 1812: ** expansion in America - US declare war with Britain - end of Federalist party


 * ** (1846) Mexican-American War: **control over western territories including CA, NW, and TX - slave or free state


 * ** (1847) Taos Indian Revolt: ** Mexicans & Indians fought against US over NW - problems of expansionism


 * ** (1854) Bleeding Kansas: ** guerilla war between pro and anti slavery - small little civil war


 * ** (1894) Pullman Strike: **wildcat strike between railway unions and railroad companies - reduction of wages - workers' rights


 * ** (1898) Spanish American War: ** fought over freedom of Cuba - imperialism: expand power, wealth, market, labor, and land


 * ** (1900) The Philippine War: ** wanted freedom from Spanish rule and after fighting along with US, they were once again suppressed under US control - paranoia over uncivilized nations


 * ** (1900) Boxer Rebellion: **Chinese nationalists opposing western political and economic influence - agree to Open Door


 * ** (1903) Panamanian Revolt: **civil war in Columbia - US needed more complying nation over Panama Canal issue - expanded US's naval strength and economic power


 * ** (1909) Intervention in Nicaragua: **Roosevelt Corollary (military establishment) - economic expansion - Dollar Diplomacy


 * ** (1915) Lusitania: ** immoral action by German - one of the causes of entering WWI


 * ** (1914-1918) Great War or WWI: **war that involved all nations - Europe economy collapsed - German's reparation - Wilson's Fourteen Points


 * ** (1917) Russian Revolution: **Provisional Government v. Bolshevik led by Vladimir Lenin (communist) - establishment of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) - rise of communist power


 * ** (1917) Race Riots: ** new black attitude - racial tension intensified


 * ** (1919) Boston Police Strike: ** social instability - postwar recession - demand for wage increase


 * ** Bonus Marchers (1932): ** Great Depression - WWI veterans demanded early payment of $1000 bonus - end of Hoover presidency


 * ** (1941) Pearl Harbor: **diplomatic problems - Japan invade US - Pacific War - entered WWII


 * ** (1939-1945) WWII: **Hitler rise in power - world at war - naval warfare - Wartime science and technology - end of GD


 * ** (1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki: ** US dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing more than 180,000 civilians and many more death from aftermath - mushroom cloud


 * ** (1947-1991) the Cold War: ** diplomatic problem between US (anticommunist) and USSR (communist) - fear of nuclear warfare - unofficial declaration of war - civil war in various nations