U.S. History: 1887-2008

By ashley.chinn
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War I (1914-1918)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • United Nations formed

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    Unit 7 Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    1.Containment
    2.Arms Race/Space Race
    3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4.Communism
    5.Domino Theory

  • 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 Sweatt v. Painter

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • Rosenbergs trail

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 1952 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 1954 Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all races provided equal protection with 14th amendment
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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • Jonas Salk invents Polio Vaccine

  • 1955-1965 Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Park's arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

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

  • 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

    The Bay of pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba.

  • 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas Tx

  • 1963 Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the march on Washington

  • 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    start of undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 1964 24th amendment

    Abolishes poll tax

  • 1965 Medicare and Medicaid Established

  • 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy test for voters

  • 1968 Tet Offensive

  • 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental in housing

  • 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • 1969 MLK assassinated

    april 4th

  • 1969 First Man on the Moon

    Apollo 11 spaceflight that was the first to land people on the moon. Neil Armstrong . july 20th

  • 1970 Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • 1971 Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 1971 26th Amendment

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

  • 1972 Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • 1973 War Powers Act

    Law limited the President's right to spend troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • 1974 Watergate Scandal,lead to Nixon's Resignation

  • 1975 Fall of Saigon, Marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • 1978 Camp David Accords

  • 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis

  • 1979 Three Mile Island Disaster

  • 1985-1987 Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)