U.S History: 1877-2008

By Benyam
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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 formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: A policy to limit communism to places where it existed.
    Arms/Space Race: A competition to see which nation could get more weapons and explore space.

    USSR: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a collection of small nation states, and the big nation Russia.
    Communism: A system in which government controls property, enterprise and almost everything and it is meant to keep everyone equal.
    Domino Theory: If one nation falls to communism, the rest will follow.

  • 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 is Established

  • Korean War

  • 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

    1. Great Society: a plan/goal set by LBJ to end poverty and discrimination in the US.
    2. Thurgood Marshall: The first African-American supreme court Justice.
    3. Black Panthers: a group/party that advocated black power and for the development of black identity.
    4. Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: A form of protest in which the demonstrates did not use violence.
    5. Cesar Chavez: an American labor leader who advocated for the end of discrimination against Mexican-Americans.

  • Rosenbergs 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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax

    It got rid of the poll tax as a requirement in federal elections.

  • 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 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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    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

    1. OPEC: was a coalition of petroleum exporting countries. They used this as a political weapon.
    2. Sandra Day O’Connor: first female supreme court justice. Appointed by Reagan
    3. Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: was passed by the federal gov. to encourage banks to aid all people.
    4. AIDS Epidemic: was an infectious disease that ravaged the country. There was no cure and the gov. played it down.
    5. Star Wars: was a defense system that was supposed to protect the US from ballistic missiles.

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 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 of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century