U.S. History 1877-2008

By jorge.trujillo
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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. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.
    2. Competition between the US and the USSR
    3. Federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922-1991
    4. System of gov. where all property is public, people work and are given things by the gov. according to their needs.
    5. The 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

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after WWII

  • NATO established

  • Korean War start

  • 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

  • Rosenberg's 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 end

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • 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

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 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 test 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, the court ruled in favor of the students

  • Kent State University Shooting

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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

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, Marks the End of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis Start

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis End

  • Iran Contra Affair Start

  • Iran Contra Affair End

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    1990s-21st Century