U.S. History 1877-2008

By Austin.Lopez
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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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    World War II

  • United Nations Fromed

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    Early Cold War

    1.Containment - the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
    2.Arms Race/Space Race - a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons
    3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - established, comprising a confederation
    4.Communism - everyone is giving things to support there needs
    5.Domino Theory - the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • 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

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg's 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

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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

  • 24th amendment -Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    End of the Cold War

  • Tet Offensive

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Fall of Saigon, end of Vietnam War

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    1990s-21st Century