U.S. History: 1877-2008

By jacksonwright
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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- A U.S policy to stop communism from spreading.
    Arms race/space race- a competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union in the development and accumulation of weapons.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- A socialist political party in Northern Eurasia.
    Communism- structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
    Domino Theory- The theory that communism would spread to other 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 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

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • ohn F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th amendment

    abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    end of the cold war

  • 26th amendment

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

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st century