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- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (3)
- Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (1)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (2)
- California Gold Rush, 1849 (1)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (12)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (1)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (1)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (5)
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (6)
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18-21, 1906 (2)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (4)
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, New York, NY, March 25, 1911 (1)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (51)
- Ludlow Massacre, CO, April 20, 1914 (1)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (4)
- Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 (1)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (6)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (2)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (66)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (1)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (10)
- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (3)
- Holocaust, 1939-1945 (25)
- Winter War, 1939-1940 (1)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (248)
- Sleepy Lagoon Trial, 1942-1943 (2)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, April 12, 1945 (1)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (11)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (3)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (12)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (34)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (1)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (22)
- Argentina, Coup d'Etat, September 16, 1955 (1)
- Suez Crisis, 1956 (1)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (3)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (54)
- Space Race, 1957-1975 (1)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (8)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (11)
- Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (1)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (5)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (3)
- Cyprus Crisis, July 15-24, 1974 (2)
- Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002 (1)
- Wars in Afghanistan, April 27, 1978– (2)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (1)
- Falkland Islands War, 1982 (2)
- U.S. Invasion of Panama, December 12, 1989 (1)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (11)
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (3)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 (2)
