U.S History: 1877-2008

By .thomas.
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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

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    Unit 7: Early Cold War (The Big Five)

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/Space Race
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO established

  • Sweatt V. Painter

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trials

  • Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

  • Hernandez V. Texas

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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery Boycott after Rosa Park's arrest

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker V. Des Moines

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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • Title IX

  • War Powers Act

  • Watergate Scandal,which leads to Nixon's Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, Marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iron Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran-Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century