U.S History 1877-2008

By sydney.philips
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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- American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.
    Arms Race- Comp between US and USSR to see who could achieve firsts in spaceflight
    USSR- federal socialist state in Russia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
    Communist- system of government where property is public, people work and are given things by the government according to their needs.
    Domino Theory- idea that if one state became communist the rest of the countries surrounding would-be communist too

  • 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

  • Rosenberg's trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. Ratified in 1951

  • 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 Missile Crisis

    Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of 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

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • 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

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st century