U.S. History: 1877-2008

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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

  • Communism

    a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
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    World War I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • domino theory

    a theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall
  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Containment

    US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  • 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
  • Arms Race/Space Race

    competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War
  • 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

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the US

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
  • Jonas Salk invents the Pollio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

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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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • John 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
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
  • First Man on the Moon

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Monies

    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

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • Amendments

    26th Amendment: 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 for Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

  • al-Qaeda

    a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War. Al-Qaeda operates as a network of Islamic extremists and Salafist jihadists.
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    1990s-21st Century

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    Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • President Clinton’s Impeachment

    Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice.
  • Presidential Election of 2000

    One of the closest US presidential elections ever. Al Gore, Bush's Democratic rival, won the popular vote by a narrow margin, but Bush attained a plurality of votes from the electoral college.
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    Barack Obama

    the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States.
  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • No Child Left Behind

    authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. The law is a re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school.
  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism
  • Hurricane Katrina