U.S. History: 1877-2008

By ashton.nunez
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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

    -Containment: The United States not allowing the Communism to spread around the world
    -Arms/Space Race:A Competition between the Soviets and the Americans to figure out who will have an advantage in weapons and in Space
    -The Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans:Also known as the USSR, it is a combination of Russia and multiple countries
    -Communism: A systemic belief run by the government
    -Domino Theory: The idea if Vietnam were to follow Communism, most of Southeast Asia would follow as well

  • 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

    1. Great Society: a domestic program made by Lyndon B. Johnson that sponsored social welfare programs
    2. Thurgood Marshall: American lawyer and 1st African American judge
    3. Black Panthers: a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism and against police brutality
    4. Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: practice of civil disobedience of social change through protests
    5. Cesar Chavez: Latino American civil rights activist.

  • Rosenburg Trials

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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 Vacine

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    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

    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 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

  • 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

    killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students during a civil protest
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    End of the Cold War

    -OPEC: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries coordinate the petroleum policies to members of the world
    -Sandra Day O'Conner: first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the US
    -Community reinvestment act of 1977: law designed to encourage commercial banks to help meet the needs of borrowers
    -AIDS epidemic: A virus that spread from person to person through sexual activity and caused a epidemic
    -Star Wars: U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th 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

  • Wars Power Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal

    The Watergate scandal was a scandal during the 1972 Presidential Election. Frank Wills, a security guard, discovered clues that former FBI and CIA agents broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and months before the election.

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

  • Camp David Accords

    a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    a partial meltdown of a reactor of Three Mile Island Nuclear and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history
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    Iran Hostage Crisis

    The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. 52 American citizens were held hostage by a group of militarized Iranian college students
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    Iran Contra Affair

    Was a political scandal that secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo
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    1990s-21st Century