U.S. History 1877-2008

By Sierra1124
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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- United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
    Arms Race/Space Race- a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons,
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
    Communism - a country run by the government and people have no say in it
    Domino Theory- noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Korean war

    1950-1953

  • Sweatt v. Painter

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

  • Korean war "end"

    1950-53

  • Hernandez v. Texas

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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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 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

  • Civil Rights Act

  • 24th Amendment

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting rights act

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. 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:

  • Tittle 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century