U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Gavin.Pruitt
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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 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

  • 22 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 Park's 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

  • Golf 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

  • Medicare and Medicated 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 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

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age to 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 to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War

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    1990's-21st century

  • Fall of the USSR- Official end of the cold war

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

  • Attack on world trade center and Pentagon

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • USA Patriot act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism