U.S. History: 1887-2008

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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: policy to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race: competition between Russia and the US to see who would achieve spaceflight capabilities and better nuclear weapons
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a group of communist states
    Communism: the government owns the factors of production
    Domino Theory: one communist government would lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states
  • 22nd Amendment

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

    1950-1953
  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 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

  • Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience

    The refusal to obey laws that are immoral or unjust
  • OPEC

    Organization of the petroleum exporting countries
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Cesar Chavez

    The organizer of migrant American farmworkers and a cofounder with Dolores Huerta of the National Farm Workers Association
  • 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
  • Great Society

    A set of domestic programs in the U.S. launched by President LBJ. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice
  • 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
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • Black Panthers

    Lead by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality
  • Thurgood Marshall

    An American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from October 1967 to October 1991
  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
  • Tinker v. 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

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years 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
  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation

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

  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • AIDS Epidemic

    The AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public, they were afraid, angry, fearful, and defiant
  • Sandra Day O'Conner

    A retired attorney and politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Star Wars

    a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century