Important American Dates

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Event	Year
Declaration of Independence signed	1776
USA recognition	1783
George Washington becomes first US president	1789
Louisiana Purchase	1803
War against Canada and UK	1812
White House burnt	1814
Texas is annexed by the US	1845
Mexican American War begins	1846
Mexican American War ends in US victory	1848
California Gold Rush	1849
Civil War begins	1861
Emancipation Proclamation	1863
Civil War ends, Lincoln assassinated	1865
Alaska Purchase	1867
Fourteenth Amendment	1868
Spanish American War	1898
Panama Canal construction begins	1904
Panama Canal opens	1914
USA enters WWI	1917
WWI ends	1918
Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins	1929

Event	Year
FDR becomes president and initiates the New Deal	1933
USA is bombed by Japan, USA joins WWII	1941
USA defeats Japan at the Battle of Midway	1942
D-Day occurs	1944
Hiroshima and Nagasaki get nuked, WWII ends	1945
Cold War begins	1946
NATO founded	1949
Korean War begins	1950
Korean War ends in stalemate	1953
Vietnam War begins	1955
Bay of Pigs Invasion	1961
Cuban Missile Crisis	1962
JFK assassinated, MLK's I Have A Dream Speech	1963
Civil Rights Act	1964
Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon	1969
Vietnam War ends	1975
USSR collapses, Cold War ends	1991
9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Afghanistan War begins	2001
Hurrican Katrina	2005
America's first black descended president, Barack Obama, becomes president	2009
War in Afghanistan ends, First Woman VP, Kamala Harris	2021