U.S. History :1877-2008

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    Early american history

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    civilwar /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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    cesar chavez

    César Estrada Chávez was an American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist.
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    greatdepression

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    worldwarII

  • united nations formed

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    Early cold war

    -conatinemnt
    -Arms race /space race
    -The union of soviet socialist republics
    -communism
    -Domino Theory

  • 22nd ammendemnt

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

  • 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 world war II

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 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 after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches sputnik

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

  • Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience

    included boycotts, such as the successful Montgomery bus boycott (1955–56) in Alabama, "sit-ins" such as the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Bberlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban missile crises

  • 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

  • great society

    a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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    black panthers

    originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
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    Thur good Marshall

    Thur good Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

  • 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 nixonś resignation

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

  • big five

    opec-The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries.
    sandra day Oćonnor -is a retired attorney and politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006
    community Reinvestment -is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks
    AIDS epidemic - began in illness, fear and death as the world faced a new and unknown virus.

  • camp david accords

  • three mile island disaster

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    Iran hostage crisas

  • iran contra affair