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U.S History: 1877-2008

By Aiden.Johnson
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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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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

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    Early Cold War

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6Jo1DYrs-LF5-YFEo7FBHt442-IKRVTMXsTGaB2h48/edit?usp=sharing(http://www.timetoast.com)
  • United Nations formed

    United Nations formed

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
  • 22nd Amendment

    22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    6-24-1948 to 5-12-1949
  • NATO established

    NATO established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    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

  • Korean War

    Korean War

    6-25-1950-7-27-1953
  • Rosenbergs trial

    Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
  • Hernandez v. Texas

    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

    Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 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

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 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

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

  • 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

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

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    1990s-21st Century