u.s history 1877-2008

By morgan.assa
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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 1

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    roaring 20s

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    great depression

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    world war 2

  • United Nations formed

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    early cold war

    Containment- the government was attempting to contain communism and keep it from spreading. Arms Race/Space Race- the us was trying to beat the ussr(russia) in the race to space and to create nuclear weapons. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- ussr (russia) Communism- total government control. Domino Theory-that if one country is one way the others may follow that one country.

  • 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 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

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    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

    Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted through 1956 after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Berlin wall built

    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    a one month long stand off between the US and the soviet union.

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • "i have a dream speech"

    Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

    a coordinated series of north Vietnamese attacks against south Vietnam.

  • MLK assassinated

    Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • civil rights act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • moon landing

    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

    Kent State University shooting
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    end of the cold war

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    papers leaked revealing the truth of the Vietnam war

  • 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

    Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon

    marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair
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    1990s-21st century