U.S. History:1877-2008

By Nick.conell
  • Period: to

    Early American History

  • Period: to

    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Period: to

    The Gilded Age

  • Period: to

    The Progressive Era

  • Period: to

    Imperialism

  • Period: to

    world war 1

  • Period: to

    Roaring Twenties

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Period: to

    World War 2

  • united nations formed

  • Period: to

    Early Cold War

    1.containment
    2.ARmrs race/space race
    3. ussr
    4.communism
    5.Domino theory

  • 22nd amendement

    the amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Truman doctrine

    President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

  • Berlin airlift

  • NATO was established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
  • Period: to

    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenburg trials

  • First H bomb detonated in the united states

  • Korean War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 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

  • 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 on declared war in Vietnam

  • 24th amendement

    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

    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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker vs does moines

    Defined the first amendment for students in the United States public schools.
  • Period: to

    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War powers act

    The law will limited the presidents rights to deploy troops to battles without congressional approval

  • Fall of Saigon ,Marks the end of the Vietnam war

  • Period: to

    1990s-21st century