Title: U.S. History: 1887-2008

By gregory.hawkins454
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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

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    • Arms Race/Space Race
    • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Communism
    • Domino Theory

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    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

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

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    Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • cuban missile crisis

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    24th Amendment

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

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    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • gulf of tonkin rsolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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    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 estabished

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968:

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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    Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • tinker v des moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools
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    First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendement

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 ears old

  • Title IX

    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

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • 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