Important moments in US politics are:

9/11
Invasion of Pearl Harbor
McCarthyism and the communist scare

The invasion of Iraq and the no-bid contracts handed to Halliburton by White House/ birth of US fascist movement

Killing the requirement for percentage sales levels for electric cars in California and the destruction of the EV-1

Post war destruction of public transportation and trolleys in US
stock market crash of 29
Kent State protests

68' riots at Democratic National Convention and the trial of the Chicago 7

International Politics

Unveiling of German Concentration Camps/ Genocide campaign against Jews and Gypsies

Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Russian communist revolution of 1917
Formation of OPEC
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Formation of NATO pact
Cultural annihilation of Biafra
Fall of apartheid in South Africa
Maoist revolution in China

1)

George Washington relinquishing power after the revolutionary war.
Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory
The Buchanan administration - the Civil War
The Tilden / Hayes election and the end of reconstruction
The crash of '29 and the new deal
Allied victory
Kennan and containment
The 60's social/civil rights revolution
Vietnam and the limit of power
Reganomics
Bush v. Gore

2) (Western Civilization)

The fall of the western empire
The rise of Christianity
The Magna Carta
The Reformation
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
The American/French Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Darwin
Marx

'america'

1. the issuance of the Declaration of Independence
2. the signing of the Treaty of Alliance
3. Tenskwatawa's decision to engage Harrison's forces.
4. the Emancipation Proclamation
5. the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision
6. the Treaty of Versailles
7. the New Deal 'pact'
8. the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
9. GHW Bush's secret deal with Iran before the 1980 election
10. the Bush v Gore decision.

Can you think of more.

Go back a little further in time if you have to.

I will start with old books that have been very influential:
* in fact, what books have been influential on politics US, and International.

Books:
Machiavelli
The Art of War
Common Sense Thomas Paine

Since Africa is always ignored:
The destruction of African civilization
Slavery-all forms of slavery past and current
Colonialism

Space Exploration



keep em comin

Treaty of Versailles

League of Nations

Bretton Woods system

US backed latin american death squads

Iran Contra

collapse of Communism

9/11

Further back?

• Genocide of the Injun nations
• English lawsuit filed against the Queen of England by the Fake family for unjust terms of indenture
• The controversy over the establishment of an official state religion in Maryland
• Declaration
• Independence
• Constitution
• freeing the press

then onto

• the invention of the cotton gin
• civil war
• the abolition of slavery
• WWI
• the 'Great Depression'
• WWII
• the invention of TV
• the Korean War
• the Moon!
• the Viet Namese conflict

Global?

A bunch of depressing shit, really, for the modern world, is all that comes to mind. The ancient stuff is pretty depressing as well, but at least it was all the way back then, and thus less real.

• Zarathustra
• Alexander vs Everybody
• Jewish tribes vs Midian / the seven nations of Canaan
• Manichaeism
• Rome, from Julius to Hadrian (I reckon)
• Christianity
• Rome sacked by barbarians (Gauls)
• Rome sacked by barbarians (Visigoths)
• Rome sacked by barbarians (Vandals)
• Islam
• Mongols invade China / Temujen rules the world
• the Dark Ages
• the Enlightenment
• The New Dark Ages
• cheerleader on Heroes grabs world by the heartstrings
• world forgets her overnight
• sleeeeep

national:

ike's speech on military-industrial complex
iranian hostage crisis
lincoln's election
washington's election and subsequent humility in only serving two terms, thus setting the precedent we know today
jfk, rfk, mlk assassinations
fdr's new deal
great depression
writing of constitution, declaration of independence, and the federalist papers
election of ronald reagan
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international:

september 11
pearl harbor
formation of united nations
fall of berlin wall
declaration of independence
formation of israel
invasion of iraq
building and launch of international space station
assassination of archduke ferdinand
fall of british empire

<Assassinations>

are always good one's. They happen just about everywhere there is power.