U.S History 1887-2008

By Darien.Willis

  • 1st Amendment

    Freedom of religion, speech, petition and assembly
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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

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    Early Cold War

    Containment-the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits./Arms Race/Space Race-The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability./The union of associate republics- was socialist state that existed in 1922-1991./Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society./Domino Theory/event in 1950
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    civil rights era

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    Vietnam War

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act

    racial equality

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    end of the cold war

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • War Powers Act

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

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

  • Trump vs Senate

    trumps impeachment trial