U.S History: 1817-2008

By Madison.Greenberg
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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 11

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    Arms race/Space race
    The union of Soviet Socialist Republicans

    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • 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'

  • USSR launches sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolished the poll taxes

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Martin Luther King's "i have a dream speech" at the March on Washington

  • Gulf of Tonkin 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 an equal opportunity basis

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy test for voters

  • Medicare and Medicare established

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet Offensive

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for student in the united states public schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End Of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved voting age from 21 to 18 years old

  • 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, 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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    Iron Hostage Crisis

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    Iron Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century