U.S History 1877-2008

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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

    Combined Countries to stop war
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    Early Cold War

    1. containment
    2. arms race
    3. the union of soviet socialist republics
    4. communism
    5. domino theory
  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits a president to run a third term
  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that gave military economic aid to countries threatened by communism
  • Berlin Airlift

    Help people in Berlin get food
  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European Countries rebuild after WW2
  • NATO established

    made for threat used by soviet union
  • Korean War

    war against south korea and north korea
  • Sweatt vs. Painter

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

  • Rosenburg Trials

    couple that were spys for soviet
  • First H- Bomb detonated by United States

    hydrogen bomb detonation by united states
  • Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka

    overturned plessy vs furguson and mandated desegregation
  • Hernandez vs. Texas

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

  • Jonas Salk Invents 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 berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24 Amendment

    Abolishes Poll Tax
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    Vietnam War

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    Vietnam War

    Great Society: set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson
    Thurgood Marshall:American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    Black Panthers: was a Black Power political organization founded by college students
    Civil Disobedience: a peaceful form of political protest.
    Cesar Chavez: American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist.
  • Martins Luther Kings I Have A Dream March on Washington

  • John. F Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • Great Society

    a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers. to hire on equal opportunity basis
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • Tet Offensive

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther Ling Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
  • Tinker V. Moines

    defined the first amendment rights for student in United States public schools.
  • Tinker Vs. Des Moines

    defined the first amendment right for students in United States Public Schools
  • First Man on Moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

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    End of Cold War

    -OPEC:Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
    -Sandra Day O’Conner: first women on supreme court
    - Community Reinvestment Act of 1977:banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs
    - Aids epidemic:Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is considered a global pandemic.
    - Star Wars
  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26 Amendment

    moved voting age from 21 to 18.
  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18
    -Ratified July 1st, 1971
  • Title IX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender in educational programs.
  • War Powers Act

    law limited the Presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the Presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
  • Watergate Scandal

    Leads to Nixons Resignation
  • Fall of Saigon

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981
  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987
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    1990s-21st Century