U.S. History: 1877-2008

By john.regan
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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- Strategic geopolitical foreign policy, keep communism away. Arms race/space race- The "race" to beat the USSR in production for nuclear weapons and to beat them getting to space. The union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Transcaucasion Federation Communism- Government ideology where the Government is in full power and the people get little to no freedoms. Domino Theory- if one country becomes communist, surrounding will follow

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

  • Sweatt Vs. 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

    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 Invests 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 Crises

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes poll tax

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 to 18 years

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War powers act

    Law limiting the President's right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • Watergate scandle; Nixon's resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s- 21st Century