A Frightening List

Watergate	Reconstruction
AIDS outbreak	Executive Order 9006 (Japanese Relocation)
America’s refusal of Jewish refugees in the 1930’s and 40’s	9/11
The war on terror	The Red Scare
Stock Market Crash	Assassination of Abraham Lincoln / Slaves freed
HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds broadcast	War on Drugs
Contagious diseases (ebola, zika)	Panic of 1897
WW II	Civil Right Movement
War of 1812	Civil War
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire	KKK march on Washington, 1925
Emmett Till murder	Lynching (1860-1960)
Kennedy Assassination	School shootings era (late ‘90s – present day) / mass shootings
Pearl Harbor	Cold War / “Mutually assured destruction”
Contemporary police shootings / BLM	Vietnam War
Assassination of MLK	Oil spills
American Revolution	Boston Marathon Bombing
“Know Nothings”	Alien and Sedition Act
The Trail of Tears	American-Indian Wars
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Civil Rights Bus Boycott
2016 Election	Fear of Syrian refugees
Gulf War (both 1st and 2nd)	Scarlet Fever
Cuban Missile Crisis	Kent State Shootings
Little Rock Integration	Massacre
The War on Terror	Korean War
Black Panthers	Feminist Movement
Anthrax Scare	Y2K
1973 Oil Crisis	Hurricane Katrina (amongst other natural disasters)
Washington DC burns down (1814) and the Great Chicago Fire (1871)	San Francisco Earthquake
Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire / Challenger Explosion	Salem Witch Trials