U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Zoey.Presseisen
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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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    The Roaring 20's

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    Great Depression

  • United Nations Formed

    It is an organization aimed at keeping peace and security
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    Early Cold war

    1. Containment, keep communism from spreading
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race, the race against the U.S and USSR to get to space first and to the moon first
    3. The USSR, controlled by Russia and 14 other countries supporting communism 4.Communism, to control everyone with only one leader
    4. Domino Theory, thought what was happening to them would spread and start happening everywhere else

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

    It was the plane that dropped food over the Berlin Wall.

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO Established

    Stands for, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made up of US, Britain, Canada and 30 other countries.

  • 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

    The war was between North and South Korea and it began on June 25th, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea

  • Rosenberg's Trial

    A couple who was executed for being accused of giving the Russians insight on U.S Government plans.

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • First H-bomb detonated by the United States

    The first detonated Nuclear bomb that the U.S set off

  • 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

    overruled Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    Jonas Salk invented the cure to Polio and announced he was going to do this while on a radio show in 1953

  • Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

    1955-1956

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    A satellite sent into space by the USSR that could blow stuff up

  • Little rock nine integrated into 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

  • John F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Texas

  • Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech at the march on Washington

  • Golf Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil rights act

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public illegal and made and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.

  • 24th Amendment

    it prohibits the poll tax in voting

  • 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

  • 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 Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • Title IX

    protects discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the president's rights to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which led to Nixon's resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three mile island disaster

  • Iran Hostage crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Al-Qaeda

    a terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Laden, and it was founded in 1988
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    1990-21's Century

  • Persian gulf war (operation Desert storm)

  • Fall of the USSR - official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, United States, and Canada

  • President Clinton's Impeachment

    He was our president and was impeached for lying to congress about high crimes and misdemeanors in 1998

  • Presidential elections of 2000

    It caused lots of controversy and debate because it took a long time to count votes because they were very close numbers

  • No Child Left Behind

    the act is that the government had federal education programs for primary and secondary schools

  • Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Barack Obama

    President from 2009-2017 as he had served two terms and was a member of the democratic party