Ranking Events in Modern US History

#26
#26
rbroyles said:
My order of your list:

1. December 7, 1941-Bombing of Pearl Harbor-Brings the US into WWII fully

2. June 6 1944-Allies land at Normandy, France and begin to retake Europe from Nazi Germany

3. September 11, 2001-Terrorists attack and destroy the World Trade Center, attack the Pentagon and crash in a field in PA

4. July 20, 1969-"Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Neil Armstrong is the first man to step on the moon.

5. November 22, 1963- Assassination of JFK-Admid the Cold War with Russia, and several other key global issues, an American President is gunned down.
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I was in the third grade when this happened. I didn't understand a lot of what was happening, but I remember it well. They sent us home from school early that day.
 
#27
#27
MWR said:
I was in the third grade when this happened. I didn't understand a lot of what was happening, but I remember it well. They sent us home from school early that day.
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I was a Sophomore in Algebra II class.
 
#29
#29
orangeblooded2 said:
Chronologically.

1) The creation of the federal Reserve - 1913.
2) The creation of the National Labor Board - 1935.
3) Roosevelt's inability to pass the Economic Bill of Rights - 1944.
4) The Mother of all Demos. Douglas Engelbart's introduction of the mouse, interactive text, video conferencing,teleconferencing,email, hypertext, and the NLS (oNLine System) - 1968
5) Richard Nixon Ends The Gold Standard - 1971
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When I got to inability I thought you were going to bring up the whole wheelchair thing.
 
#30
#30
orangeblooded2 said:
Chronologically.

1) The creation of the federal Reserve - 1913.
2) The creation of the National Labor Board - 1935.
3) Roosevelt's inability to pass the Economic Bill of Rights - 1944.
4) The Mother of all Demos. Douglas Engelbart's introduction of the mouse, interactive text, video conferencing,teleconferencing,email, hypertext, and the NLS (oNLine System) - 1968
5) Richard Nixon Ends The Gold Standard - 1971
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Dear lord, you truly hate freedom and have a super hard on for gov't!

:bad:
 
#34
#34
The "death" of FDR. If any of those three don't happen, the course of history is changed drastically.

The fact of the matter is that all presidents accumulate enemies, and a man who succeeded in winning four elections can be assumed to have accumulated far more than most. President Barack Obama is said to average more than 10,000 death threats a year. Even the relatively benign Dwight Eisenhower is reported to have received more than 15,000 such threats annually. And Roosevelt’s views in certain areas were likely to have created even more enemies for him. For instance, he:
  • Opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan
  • Opposed establishing Israel
  • Intended to dismantle the various British colonies scattered across the globe and help them become self-governing nations.
Just those positions alone would have painted a bull’s-eye on him several times over. Yes, FDR had his share of enemies, but could he have been murdered? What do those who buy into this idea hang their hats on?

Mostly, the “evidence” consists of allegations that cannot, today, be proven without exhuming Roosevelt’s body and conducting a full forensic examination. His last breakfast was supposedly laced with cyanide. His body turned black within hours of his death, an alleged result of arsenic poisoning. Although Georgia law demanded an autopsy, as in the case of JFK twenty years later, Roosevelt’s body was whisked out of the state without the legally mandated autopsy by state officials. That’s not an unsubstantiated allegation; that did happen. But that it was done for some nefarious reason is unsubstantiated.

The Murder of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Criminal Element
 
#35
#35
Rasputin_Vol said:
The "death" of FDR. If any of those three don't happen, the course of history is changed drastically.

The fact of the matter is that all presidents accumulate enemies, and a man who succeeded in winning four elections can be assumed to have accumulated far more than most. President Barack Obama is said to average more than 10,000 death threats a year. Even the relatively benign Dwight Eisenhower is reported to have received more than 15,000 such threats annually. And Roosevelt’s views in certain areas were likely to have created even more enemies for him. For instance, he:
  • Opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan
  • Opposed establishing Israel
  • Intended to dismantle the various British colonies scattered across the globe and help them become self-governing nations.
Just those positions alone would have painted a bull’s-eye on him several times over. Yes, FDR had his share of enemies, but could he have been murdered? What do those who buy into this idea hang their hats on?

Mostly, the “evidence” consists of allegations that cannot, today, be proven without exhuming Roosevelt’s body and conducting a full forensic examination. His last breakfast was supposedly laced with cyanide. His body turned black within hours of his death, an alleged result of arsenic poisoning. Although Georgia law demanded an autopsy, as in the case of JFK twenty years later, Roosevelt’s body was whisked out of the state without the legally mandated autopsy by state officials. That’s not an unsubstantiated allegation; that did happen. But that it was done for some nefarious reason is unsubstantiated.

The Murder of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Criminal Element
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so there is a bit of justice in the world?
 
#36
#36
Damn, a thread I started years ago under my old name has resurfaced, kinda cool.

Interesting. I will have to check that out,

Another interesting death is Patton.
 
#37
#37
Cool thread: In no real particular order

* Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
* Bombing of Pearl Harbor
* 9/11
* 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln (maybe not "modern")
* 1st Moon Landing
 
#38
#38
I would have to add Trump getting elected and the re-rise of populism on the list as well. Despite opinions on either side, that is going to shape, at least our political history, for the next 10-20 years
 
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