U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Tommie.Dodge
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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

    Containment- keeping something harmful under control Arms Race/space race- a competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons. The union of soviet socialist republics- a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia communism- a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. domino theory- an event in one country will cause similar events in other countries.

  • 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

  • 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 Trials

  • 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

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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 Missle Crisis

  • 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

    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

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicade established

  • Voting rights act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil rights act

    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
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    End of the cold war

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18

  • 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

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    1990s-21st Century