1887-2008

By Zoya Tharani
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    World War I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    This was ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

  • 24th Amendment

    This amendment abolished the poll tax and was ratified in 1962.

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This began an undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law legislation that established the Medicare and Medicaid programs. For 50 years, these programs have been protecting the health and well-being of millions of American families, saving lives, and improving the economic security of our nation.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This eliminated literacy tests for voters.

  • Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    This prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    This defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.

  • 26th Amendment

    This amendment moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    This protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.

  • War Powers Act

    This was a law that limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

    On this day, Saigon, the capital of the Republic of Vietnam at the time, fell to the People's Army of Vietnam.
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    1990s-21st Century