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

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment-a policy to stop the spread of communism
    2. Arms Race/Space Race-tried to intimidate with the best nuclear weapons and a spaceflight competition between the soviet union and united states 3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-a communist country that includes Russia and 14 other countries 4.Communism-common ownership and no social classes 5.Domino Theory-theory that if one country became communist then the neighboring countries would follow suit and do the same.
  • United Nations Formed

    The United Nations aims to maintain peace and security and a place for other countries to harmonize and develop friendly relations
  • 22nd Amendment

    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
  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • Berlin Airlift

    Soviet forces blockaded all road, rail and water routes into Berlin's Allied-controlled areas, stifling the vital flow of food, coal and other supplies and the airlift provided these things for the people.
  • NATO Established

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "seperate but equal"
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice.
  • Rosenburgs Trial

    In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953.
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion
  • Hernandez v Texas

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

  • Brown v Board of Education

    overturned Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegregation
  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    Researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
  • 1955-1956

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks arrest
  • USSR launches Sputnik

    On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
  • 1957

    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all white school in Little Rock,AK
  • 1961

    Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba
  • 1961

    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff
  • 1963

    Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" at the March on Washington
  • 1963

    John F Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the 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
  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65+ or under 65 and have a disability, no matter your income.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • 1968

    Martin Luther King is assassinated
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
  • Tet Offensive

    a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
  • 1969

    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 Released

    In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years
  • 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

    the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
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    1990's-21st Century