U.S. History: 1877-2008

By William.Vernon
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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 Deppression

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    WW2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold war

    Containment- a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms race/space race- competition between USA and USSR to see who is more "powerful", who can make it to space first and who can get better weapons/bombs.

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Truman Doctrine

    Gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Aircraft

  • Marshall Plan

    Helped European Countries rebuild after WW2

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

  • Sweatt v painter

    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 US

  • Brown v Board of education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v Furguson and mandated desegregation
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks Arrest

    Montgomery´s buses were integrated

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock nine integrated into an all white school

  • Bay of pigs Invasion in Cuba

    A failed attempt to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power

  • Berlin wall Built to prevent people from leaving Communist Berlin

    wall divided east and west Berlin

  • 24th Amendment

    prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

  • Martin Luther King´s I have a dream speech

    Martin luther king´s I have a dream speech located at the march on Washhington

  • JFK assassination

    JFK assassinated in Dallas by a gun shot.

  • Civil rights Act of 1964

    Discrimination on race is made illegal and employment equality is enforced

  • Voting rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literary tests for voters

  • MLK assasination

  • First man on Moon

  • Kent State Uni Shooting

    Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University Demonstrators killing 4 people and wounding 9
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    End of Cold war

    The union of soviet socialist republics-a former country that was composed of many different communist countries.
    Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
    Domino Theory-one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • Title IX

    Discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal leading to Nixons Resigntion

    Scandal that revealed FBI and CIA agents broke into the offices of the Democratic Party months before the election

  • Camp David Accords

    Agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli that made a peace treaty between the two nations

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    Iranian citizens with guns stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took approximately 70 Americans captive

  • Three mile island disaster

    Most serious Accident at a Commercial nuclear power plant

  • Iran Contra Affair

    A super secret arms deal
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    1990s-21st Century