U.S. History: 1877-2008

By amayamoore
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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

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1)Containment-policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    2)Arms Race/Space Race-The Space Race was competition between
    the USSR and the US, to be first in spaceflight capability
    3)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-The Soviet Union, was a federal socialist state
    4)Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society
    5)Domino Theory-that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • The Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

  • brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

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    Civil Rights Era

    Great Society-President LJ proposals to aid public education, give medical care for the elderly,eliminate poverty.Thurgood Marshall-civil rights activist/first African American appointed to the Supreme Court.Black Panthers-organization founded by Huey Newton to challenge police brutality against the African American communityNonViolent Protests/Civil Disobedience- refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, of a government.Cesar Chavez-Latino leader that organized the United Farm Workers

  • 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

    crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • civil rights act

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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • voting rights act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

    attack by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces throughout South Vietnam. The North lost all battles and had enormous casualties, but the effect was to turn American public opinion against the war

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • civil right 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 the Cold War

    OPEC-Organization whose primary goal is to stabilize the oil market by balancing supply and demand of oil.
    Sandra Day O’Connor-first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-encouraged banks and savings associations to meet the need of borrowers in their local communities.
    AIDS Epidemic-spread rapidly around the world concern over prevention and cure intensified.
    Star Wars-defense in outer space against intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  • 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

  • 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

    the capture of Saigon, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century