U.S History 1877-2008

By maria.ramirez
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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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    Imperalism

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    World War I

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great depression

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    World War ll

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment- Stopping the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race-Us and Soviet union
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-Mikhail Gorbachev
    Communism- Berlin Wall come down, borders opened
    Domino Theory- when one country does one thing the ones follow.

  • 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

  • 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

    Great Society- was a set of domestic programs in the United States
    Thurgood Marshall was an american lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    Black Panthers was a Black Power political organization founded by college students
    Nonviolent Protests/Civil Disobedience- to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power
    Cesar Chavez- known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored farms.

  • 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

  • 24th Amendement

    Abolished the poll tax

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • 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

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the state or rental of housing

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    OPE organization consisting of 12 member countries whose primary goal is to stabilize the oil market by balancing the supply an demand of oil Sandra Day O'connor first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - requires the Federal Res Regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities
    AIDS Epidemic caused by HIV
    Star Wars (NOT the movies)- Was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United State

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th amendement

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

  • 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, which leads to Nixon's Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century