U.S. History: 1877-2008

By porter.morris1
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War I (1914-1918)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sFT_AjfPWzPx-62_v6HHlCRdcYT98x75X5fqAx1EsqY/edit

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

    1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
    1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
    1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
    1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
    1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
    1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
    1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
    1969: First Man on the Moon

  • Sweatt v. Painter:

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

    1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
    1965: Medicare and Medicaid established
    1968: Tet Offensive
    1971: Pentagon Papers leaked
    1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 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

    enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined First Amendment rights of students in U.S. public schools.
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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

    1970: Kent State University shooting
    1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
    1978: Camp David Accords
    1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
    1979: Three Mile Island Disaster
    1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair

  • 26th Amendment

    Passed by Congress March 23, 1971,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

    check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress
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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)