U.S. History 1877-2008

By sueleen.besfki
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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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    civil rights era

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    World war II

  • united nations formed

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    early cold war

    containment. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence
    arms race/space race. a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
    the union of soviet socialist republicans. the soviet union
    domino theory. apolitical event in one country will cause smaller problems in surrounding countries

  • truman doctrine

    us policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd amendment

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

  • marshall plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after world war II

  • berlin airlift

  • Nato established

  • sweatt v. pointer

    ruled the separate law school at the university of texas failed to qualify as separate but equal

  • rosenbergs trial

  • first h bomb denoated by the us

  • brown v board of education of topeka

    overturned plessy v furguson and mandated desegregation

  • hernandez v texas

    mexican americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14 amend
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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

  • bay of pigs invasion in cuba

  • berlin wall built to prevent people from leaving communist east berlin

  • cuban missile crisis

  • martin luther king "i have a dream speech" at the march on washington

  • john f Kennedy is assassinated in dallas texas

  • gulf of tonkin resolution

    begins 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

  • medicare and medicad established

  • voting rights act of 1965

    eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • ten offensive

  • martin luther king is assassinated

  • civilrights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • first man on the moon

  • kent state university shooting

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    end of the cold war

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    moved to voting age from 21 to 18

  • title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • war powers act

    law limited presidents right to send troops to battle

  • watergate scandal which leads to nixons resignations

  • fall of saigon,marks the end of the 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