U.S. History: 1887-2008

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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

    The united nations formed
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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    Great Society-a set of domestic programs
    Thurgood Marshall-Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Black Panthers-Party for Self-Defense
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience- practice of achieving goals such as social change
    Cesar Chavez-American civil rights activist
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
  • 22nd Amendment

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

    when they dropped supplices for the people
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO established

    The North Atlantic treaty
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
    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 (1950-1970)

    Containment-the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
    Arms Race/Space:competition between two Cold War rivals firsts in spaceflight capability.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-comprising a confederation of Russia
    Communism-all property is publicly owned and each person work
    Domino Theory- one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
  • Rosenbergs trial

    the court convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy to commit espionage.
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United

    hydrogen bomb
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    vaccine for polio
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    they launch
  • 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

    built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on cuba
  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax
  • 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

    programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • Tet Offensive

    coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
  • 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

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
  • Kent State University shooting

    The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students
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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

    OPEC-Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
    Sandra Day O’Connor-is a retired attorney, politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-federal law designed to encourage
    AIDS Epidemic-Human Immunodeficiency Virus,
    Star Wars (NOT the movies)- the war
  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    Pentagon Papers leaked slowly to the public
  • Amendement 26

    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
  • 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

    He fired White House Counsel John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee and said that he believed and suspected the conversations in the Oval Office were being taped.
  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

    The end of Vietnam War
  • Camp David Accords

    The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students
  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979
  • Iran Contra Affair

    Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987 The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration
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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)