U.S. History: 1877-2008

By MollieSellers
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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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    WW1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    WW2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment- Prevent the spread of communism.
    Arms Race/Space Race- USA and USSR compete against each other.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Socialist state in Russia.
    Communism- Everyone is paid according to their needs.
    Domino Theory- One event can cause other similar events.

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 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 the United States

  • 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 Missile Crisis

    The United States and the Soviet Union almost came close to nuclear conflict.

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • great society

    Set of domestic programs launched by LBG

  • 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

  • Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience

    Such as Sit-Ins, Montgomery bus boycott, etc...

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Black Panthers

    political party for black power

  • Thurgood Marshall

    American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

  • Cesar Chavez

    Civil Rights Activist

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King 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 the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26 Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old 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 without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st century

  • End of the Cold War

    OPEC-The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization.
    Sandra Day O’Connor-Polictian
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-requires the Federal Reserve and other federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit to other communites.
    AIDS Epidemic-A transmitted disease that spread across the world.
    Star Wars- a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack.