U.S. HISTORY: 1877-2008

By aniya.warren
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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 TWENTIES

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    GREAT DEPRESSION

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    WORLD WAR 2

  • The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States

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    EARLY COLD WAR

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/Space Race
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom

  • Sweatt v. Painte

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

  • The couple was accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons.

  • United States tests first hydrogen bomb The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States

  • The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice

  • 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 Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • The USSR 's launch of Sputnik 1 spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • I Have a Dream

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of

    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 medicate

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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    tet offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines:

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

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    END OF THE COLD WAR

  • pentagon paper leaked

    pentagon paper leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    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

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

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    1900S-20ST CENTRY