U.S. History 1877-2008

By niya.coleman
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    Early American Hstory

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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 Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 22 Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-bomb Detonated by the United States

  • 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 Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • 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

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tx

  • 24th Amendment Ratified

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • civil Rights Act Passed

    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 Passed

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Martin Luther King

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    Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment Ratified

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal, leading to Nixon's registration

  • Fall of Saigon

  • Camp David Accords

  • 3 Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century