U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Morgan Crawford
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

    • Containment A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communisms abroad.
    • Arms Race/Space Race USSR and US compete with weapons and who can get into space. USSR for short, this was a confederation composed of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation.
    • Communism Absence of social class, money, and state.
    • Domino Theory If one country became communism then surrounding countries would follow.
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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

  • 1945: United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine (1947)

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

  • 22nd Amendment

    This amendment limits a president to two terms, meaning he cannot be elected as president more than twice.

  • 1948: Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan (1948)

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • 1949: NATO established

  • Sweatt v. Painter: ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

    He was accepted into the University of Texas.
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    Civil Rights Era

    Great Society: Reduce poverty, reduce racial injustice, reduce crime, improve environment.
    Thurgood Marshal: Supreme court's first African-American Judge.
    Black Panthers: Group of black nationalism, socialism and armed self-defense.
    Civil-Disobedience: Peaceful form of protests against laws.
    Cesar Chavez: an American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist.
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    1950-1953: Korean War

  • 1951: Rosenbergs trial

  • 1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

    14th amendment stated all racial groups shall be protected
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

    Brown won and school's were desegregated.

  • 1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • 1957: USSR launches Sputnik

  • 1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax

    outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • 1965: Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • 1968: Tet Offensive

  • 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968:

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • 1969: First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines:

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

  • 1970: Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC - Oil, When US supported Israel they were cut off of oil.
    Sandra Day O’Connor - 1st woman associate justice of the supreme court.
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - encourage depository institutions to meet the credit needs of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
    AIDS Epidemic - People were unsure of how it spread
    Star Wars - Having satellites in space to deflect USSR missiles heading towards the US

  • 1971: Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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 (1973)

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • 1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • 1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • 1978: Camp David Accords

  • 1979: Three Mile Island Disaster

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    1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis

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    1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century