U.S History: 1887-2008

By carli.jackson
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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 20's

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    The Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1.Containment- strategy to keep Communism contained
    2.Arms Race/Space Race- a race between the USSR and the USA to see who can build bigger weapons as well as who can get to space first
    3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The Communist party and the main enemy of the Allies
    4.Communism- government system where the government has complete control and has opposite beliefs of democracy
    5.Domino Theory- if communism is not contained, other countries will fall under communism

  • 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

  • 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

    1. Great Society - instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
    2. Thurgood Marshall - American lawyer and civil rights activist who was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    3. Black Panthers - A political, black power organization
    4. Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience - going against laws with peaceful protests
    5. Cesar Chavez - Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist

  • Rosenburg trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the US

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

    1952-1954

  • 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 Polio vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    1955-1956

  • 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

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment: Abolishes poll taxes

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold War

    OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, cut off resources to the US
    Sandra Day O’Connor - the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - requires federal banking regulators to help meet the credit needs of the communities they do business with
    AIDS Epidemic - a new disease that caused panic in the US
    Star Wars - a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.

  • 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

    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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987
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    1990's - 21st Century