U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Dante Pettieway
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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:
    -Arms Race/Space Race:
    -The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
    -Communism:
    -Domino Theory:

  • Sweatt v. Painter

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

  • 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

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    Civil Rights Era

    [Great Society - ]
    [Thurgood Marshall - ]
    [Black Panthers - ]
    [Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience - ]
    [Cesar Chavez - ]
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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg's Trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 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 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker vs Des Moines

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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    [OPEC - ]
    [Sandra Day O’Connor - ]
    [Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - ]
    [AIDS Epidemic - ]
    [Star Wars (NOT the movies) - ]

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old 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