U.S History:1887-2008

By karsten.clark
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    Early American History

  • Communism

    A theory or system of a social organization based on holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
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    Civil war/Reconstruction

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    The Glided 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

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    A former federal union of 15 republics comprising the larger part of the russian empire
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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Containment

    The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits

  • 22nd Amendemnet

    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

  • 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

  • Domino Theory

    The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in the neighboring countries.

  • 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

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    Rosa Praks refused to sit in the bcak of the bus.

  • Arms Race/Space Race

    When two or more countries increases the quality of military resources to gain superiority over the other

  • : USSR launches Sputnik

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

    Group of black students that went to an all white school

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

    A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of cuba

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

    They built a wall in germany berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th Amendment

    Outlawed the poll tax

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

    MLK delivered a sppech tslking about waht he wants for the future of eqaulity.

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

    He was killed by Booth.

  • 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

    He was killed on a baloncy

  • 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

    Man on the moon

  • Kent State University shooting

    Killing of 4 people
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    End Of Cold War

  • 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

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

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

    Poltical scandal in the united states invloving Nixon. A break in headquarters.

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

  • Camp David Accords

    A pair of poltical agreements

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    Partial breakdown of reactor 2
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    Iran Hostage Crisis

    Dipolmatic standoff between United states and Iran
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    Iran Contra Affair

    Secert us arms deal that traded missles
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    1900s-21st Century