U.S History: 1877-2008

By julian.gonzalez
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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 20s

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    The Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

  • 22nd amendment

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall plan

  • NATO established

  • Korean war

  • 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 U.S.

  • 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

  • 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 missle crisis

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

  • 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 act 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

  • Tinker vs Des Moines

  • First man on the moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End Of The Cold War

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War power acts

  • Watergate Scandal, (Nixon's Resignation)

  • Fall of saigon marks the end of veitnam war

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1900's- 21st Century