U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Kennedi.hill
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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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    End of Cold War

  • 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 threatend by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO establishment

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H bomb denotated by the united states

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernaadez 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

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    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 East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Tx

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24 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 tests for voters

  • 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

    First amendment rights for students in the Unites States Public Schools

  • First man on the moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved voting age from 21 to 18

  • 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

    Leads to Nixon's resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century

    Barack Obama
    Al-Queda
    No Child Left Behind
    President Clinton's Impeachment
    Presidential Election of 2000
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    Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Fall of the USSR- Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA Patriot Act

    Tightened the national security, particularity as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina