U.S History: 1877-2008

By Samantha.Cote
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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

    1. Containment: The United States policy of restricting communism to certain areas, caused the united states to get involved with conflicts involving keeping communism from spreading. 2.Arms Race/Space Race:race to put a man on the moon, was an extension of the competition between capitalism and communism. 3.Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a communist nation that encouraged the spread of communism to other countries, which the united states fought against.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Marshell Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    rule the separate law school at the university of texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal"
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Hermandez v. Texas

    Mexican americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th ammendment

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 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 Missle Crisis

  • Martin Luther Kings "I Have a Dream" Speach at the march on washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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 an equal opportunity basis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    authorizes the president to begain undeclared war in vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is Assasinated

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    prohibited the discrimination in the sale or rental housing

  • Tinker v. Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools

  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

  • Kent State University Shooting

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendments

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Watergate scandal which leads to Nixons resignation

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the vietnam war

  • Camp David Accords

  • three mile island disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century