Question

what events that occurred in the 1900s-2000 (besides the new deal) created what an american is? how did they do so?

Answer 1

U.S. In 1902 Pres. Theodore Roosevelt followed the Radical goal of curbing the immense economic and political influence of the giant corporate trusts by resurrecting the almost extinct Sherman Antitrust Act to bring a case that led to the dissolution of the Northern Securities Corporation (ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1904) a massive railroad conglomerate. Roosevelt followed this trust-busting strategy by filing suits over the next seven years against 43 other large companies.

Following the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor (December 1941), once again staying out of the early stages of another worldwide conflict, the US entered World War II on the Allies' side. In August 1945, with the war in Europe over and the advance of U.S. forces on Japan, U.S. Pres. In the nuclear age, Harry S. Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, hoping that the horrific devastation unleashed would prevent an even greater loss of life that seemed likely to result from a prolonged island-by-island invasion of Japan..

While at the end of the 20th century terrorist threats had been directed toward the United States, a new sense of uncertainty was introduced in American life on September 11, 2001, when Islamist terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the countryside of Pennsylvania, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.