Defining Moments

Kate is asking for opinions of the 50 Most Defining Events in American History.

Here's my quick, off-the-top-of-my-head list (in no particular order). It's not fifty items, and some are related or vauge concepts rather than specific events.

9/11
JFK presidency
Pearl Harbor
WWII
Vietnam
Fall of the Taliban
Fall of Iraq
Belleau Wood (WWI)
Civil War
Landing on the moon
Transcontinental Railroad
Kittyhawk
USS Nautilus (first nuke-powered submarine)
"I Have A Dream" speech
Woman Vote
Emancipation Proclamation
Atomic Bomb
Independence
Manifest Destiny
Lewis & Clark
Watergate
Roe vs Wade
Cold War victory
Clipper ships
Panama Canal
California Gold Rush