history time line

By ryan.raccuia
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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 1

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    roaring twenties

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    great depression

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    world war 2

  • united nation formed

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    early cold war

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    civil rights era

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    vietnam war

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    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

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • gulf of ton kin resolution

    begins undeclared war in vietnam

  • 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 equal opportunity basis

  • medicare and medicaid established

  • voting rights acts of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • civil rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • tinker v. des moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools

  • kent state shooting

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    end of cold war

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendent

    changed the voting age from 21 to 18

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • war powers act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • watergate scandal

  • fall of saigon, marks the end of the vietnam war

  • camp david accords

  • three mile island disaster

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    iran hostage crisis

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    iran contra affair

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    1990s-21st century

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