U.S History 1877-2008

By david.bayyouk
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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

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles
    The New Deal
    Causes of the Great Depression
    Court Packing
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps, (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Established

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA( established

  • Dust Bowl, starts in 1930 ends in 1936

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starts WWII

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    World War II

    Island Hopping
    Liberation of Concentration Camps
    Dwight Eissenhower
    Douglas Eisenhower
    Douglas MacArthur
    Chester W. Nimitz
    Nuvajo Code Talkers
    Tuskegee Airmen
    Flying Tigers
    The Manhattan Project
    Rosie The River

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • Battle of the Midway

  • G.I Bill

    gives military Veterans financial and education benefits

  • "D-Day" Invasion of Normandy

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: Prevent communism spread/proxy wars/airlifts/etc.
    Arms Race/Space race: USA v USSR. First one to space and the moon/ who can make the biggest scarier weapon
    U.S.S.R: Russia but bigger, very communist, doesn't like U.S.A, involved with Cold war, Arms Race, Space race, Proxy wars. Falls in 1991.
    Communism: Everyone works and is paid equally. Given things based on necessity.
    Domino Theory: If one country was influenced by communism, surrounded countries would be infected. Not good.

  • The atomic bomb "Fat Man" is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending WWII

  • The atomic bomb, "little boy" Is dropped in Hiroshima Japan

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine: (1947) U.S. Policy that have military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan: (1948) program to help European countries rebuild after WWII

  • 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

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • 22nd Amendment

    22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • 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

  • Janas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa PArk's arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • JFK assassinated in Dallas

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th amendment

    abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK is assassinated

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    lowered 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 President's right to send troops to battle with out a Congressional approval

  • Watergate scandal, Nixon resigns

  • Fall of Saigon, end of the Vietnam War

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century