20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History

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20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History is an eight-part series designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that distinguished the 20th Century. 61 pivotal events and the people involved are examined at specific points in time.

20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History is an eight-part series designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that distinguished the 20th century at specific points in time that were significant pivotal points in history. Rare archival footage and photographs, authentic recordings, and other primary source documents bring history to life, while stunning graphics and engaging narration lend context and clarity to the subject. The series has been developed specifically for classroom use. It is organized around established standards and thoughtfully divided into chapters, with each volume functioning as either a full-length program or as focused support for specific study areas.

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1900 - 190728 minutes$3.99
1900 - The Gold Standard Act is Ratified by Congress3 minutes$1.99
1901 - Dr. Walter Reed Discovers Yellow Fever is Transmitted by Mosquitoes3 minutes$1.99
1901 - McKinley is show and Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President3 minutes$1.99
1902 - 140,000 Mine Workers Go Out on Strike3 minutes$1.99
1902 - The Government Passes the Newlands Reclamation Act3 minutes$1.99
1903 - Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk3 minutes$1.99
1906 - Upton Sinclair's Novel "The Jungle" is Published3 minutes$1.99
1906 - U.S. Takes Over Construction of the Panama Canal3 minutes$1.99
1907 - Frank Lloyd Wright Completes the Robie House in Chicago3 minutes$1.99
1908 - 191828 minutes$3.99
1908 - Ford introduces the Model T4 minutes$1.99
1909 - W.E.B. DuBois Founds the NAACP3 minutes$1.99
1911 - Hollywood Founded3 minutes$1.99
1913 - 16th Amendment allows Progressive Income Tax3 minutes$1.99
1913 - 17th Amendment Caps a Period of Election Reforms3 minutes$1.99
1914 - Clayton Anti-Trust Act Passed3 minutes$1.99
1914 -1917 - America Prepares for World War I5 minutes$1.99
1917 - America Enters World War I4 minutes$1.99
1919 - 192827 minutes$3.99
1919 - Prohibition Begins4 minutes$1.99
1920 - Women Gain the Right to Vote3 minutes$1.99
1923 - Teapot Dome Scandal Typifies the Roaring 20's4 minutes$1.99
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover Named Head of the FBI3 minutes$1.99
1925 - The Scopes Monkey Trial3 minutes$1.99
1926 - Goddard Initiates the Space Age3 minutes$1.99
1926 - David Sarnoff Founds NBC4 minutes$1.99
1927 - Charles Lindbergh Flies Across the Atlantic3 minutes$1.99
1929 - 194328 minutes$3.99
1929 - "Black Tuesday" Foretells the Great Depression4 minutes$1.99
1932 - Amelia Earhart: Record-Breaking Woman Aviator3 minutes$1.99
1933 - President Roosevelt's 'One Hundred Days' Begins his New Deal5 minutes$1.99
1935 - President Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act3 minutes$1.99
1936 - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis Debunk Hitler's Claim of Aryan Superiority3 minutes$1.99
1940 - Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is Published4 minutes$1.99
1941 - Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor5 minutes$1.99
1944 - 195228 minutes$3.99
1944 - D-Day "Operation Overlord"7 minutes$1.99
1945 - The U.S. Air Force Drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima4 minutes$1.99
1947 - The Marshall Plan for Europe3 minutes$1.99
1950 - President Truman Sends American Troops to the Aid of South Korea3 minutes$1.99
1950 - 1953 The Korean War5 minutes$1.99
1951 - Alan Freed Introduces Rock and Roll3 minutes$1.99
1953 - 196328 minutes$3.99
1953 - John Foster Dulles Becomes Eisenhower's Cold War Warrior4 minutes$1.99
1954 - Senator Joseph McCarthy is Condemned by the Senate3 minutes$1.99
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education3 minutes$1.99
1955 - Rosa Parks is Arrested2 minutes$1.99
1960 - Nixon-Kennedy Televised Debates3 minutes$1.99
1962 - Astronaut John Glenn is the First American to Orbit the Earth4 minutes$1.99
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis4 minutes$1.99
1963 - Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech3 minutes$1.99
1964 - 197328 minutes$3.99
1964 - President Lyndon Johnson Announces the Great Society3 minutes$1.99
1964 - Vietnam War: Congress Passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution5 minutes$1.99
1965 - Black urban Riots Begin4 minutes$1.99
1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive4 minutes$1.99
1970 - First Earth Day4 minutes$1.99
1972 - Watergate4 minutes$1.99
1973 - Vietnam War: Cease-Fire Ends War4 minutes$1.99
1973 - 199927 minutes$3.99
1973 - Second Battle of Wounded Knee3 minutes$1.99
1973 - Roe v. Wade3 minutes$1.99
1976 - Personal Computers Herald the Post Industrial Age3 minutes$1.99
1983 - The Grenada Conflict3 minutes$1.99
1987 - Alan Greenspan Becomes Chairman of the Federal Reserve3 minutes$1.99
1990 - The Gulf War Demonstrates American Military Supremacy4 minutes$1.99
1991 - End of the Cold War3 minutes$1.99
1994 - Whitewater Leads to the Impeachment of President Clinton2 minutes$1.99
1999 - Y2K Ends the American Century3 minutes$1.99
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