U.S History: 1877-2008

By David Odida
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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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    Early cold war

    Containment- was a US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
    Arms Race/Space Race-was a competition between the US and the USSR to develop aerospace capabilities.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- started war with US
    Communism -This was a political and economic ideology that calls for a classless, government-controlled society in which everything is shared equally.
    Domino Theory-policy that suggested a communist government in one nation

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. 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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the 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

  • 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

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools. The Supreme Court’s majority ruled that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The Court took the position that school officials could not prohibit only on the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning environment.

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the cold war

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • Title IX

    It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money. (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 Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s - 21st century