U.S. History 1877-2008

By gourdon.ware
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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
    •Arms Race/Space Race
    •The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    •Communism
    •Domino Theory

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO Established

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • 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

  • USSR launches the Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK Assassination

  • MLK Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" Speech

  • 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

  • MLK Jr. 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
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    End of the Cold War

  • 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

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

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    1990s-21st Century