history timeline

By celeste_rojasss
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    Early America History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Gilding Age

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    The Progressive Age

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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 Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

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    Early Cold War Big Five

    Containment-keeping something harmful under control
    Arms Race/Space Race-The United States and the Soviet Union fight the Cold War by demonstrating their power and technology
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-name of a reorganization of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into a new confederation
    Communism- government owns the property and only gives land to people who need it
    Domino Theory-a political event in one country will cause similar events in other countries

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ 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

  • 24th amendment was passed

  • 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 Resolutions

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • civil rights act

    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 act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • civil rights act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker Vs. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment right for students in the United States Public Schools

  • kent state university shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26 Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval.

  • Watergate scandal

    leads to nixion's redignation

  • Fall of Saigon

    Makes 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

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs