US History 1887-1860

By Gehrig.vogel
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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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    WW1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    WW2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment - United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race - arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States
    The union of Soviet Socialist Republic - is established, comprising a confederation of Russia
    Communism - a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society
    Domino Theory - he theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events

  • 22nd Amendment

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after WWll

  • NATO established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal"
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    Civil rights era

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Korean War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Jonas Salk invents the polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus boycott after Rosa Park's arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 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

  • 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

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolished the poll tax

  • Civil rights act of 1964

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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

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  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    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

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old

  • Title lX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers act

    Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

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

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    1990's-21st Century