U.S History: 1877-2008

By Ryan.reyes
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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

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bwacmRPYghmjq5_MFaAK1nw5eHJE8JmitAHMEvazPt0/edit

  • 22nd amendment

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Rosenburgs trial

  • First H-bomb donated by the U.S

  • 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 missil crisis

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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 establoshed

  • 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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon paper leaked

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, makrs the end of vietname war

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century