U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Ronald Robles Ruiz
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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

    1) Containment, A scheme from the US to stop the spread of communism.
    2) Arms Race/Space Race, a race that will determine who is better and more advanced.
    3) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, aka USSR is a communist state in northern Eurasia.
    4) Communism, A idealogy of an equal society.
    5) Domino Theory, a theory that if a country is taken over communism, then the surrounding countries will also be infected.

  • 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

  • Cold War

  • 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

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

    Great Society- a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. Thurgood Marshall- American lawyer and civil rights activist. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice. Black Panthers-Black Power political organization Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience- protesters refuse to obey laws in a non-violent way. Cesar Chavez- labor leader, Latino American civil rights activist.

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

    OPEC-organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum:formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices
    Sandra Day O’Connor-first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers
    AIDS Epidemic-spread and the first appearance of this virus
    Star Wars-strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks

  • 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century