U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Kamryn.beatty
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    Early american history

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    Cival 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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    WW1

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    Roaring twenties

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    great depression

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    WWII

  • United nations formed

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    Early cold war

  • Berlin airlift

  • NATO established

  • Court case 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 war era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H-bomb detonated by the united nations

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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 offense

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968:

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    End of the cold war

  • Kent state university shooting

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

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

  • Watergate Scandal,

    leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • 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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's -21st century