-
Period: to
Early American History(1776-1860)
-
Period: to
Civil/War/Reconstruction(1860-1877)
-
Period: to
The Gilded Age(1877-1900)
-
Period: to
The Progressive Era(1890-1920)
-
Period: to
Imperialism(1898-1910)
-
Period: to
World War(1914-1918)
-
Period: to
Roaring Twenties(1920-1929)
-
Period: to
Great Depression(1929-1939)
-
Period: to
World War 2 (1939-1945)
-
United Nations Formed
-
Period: to
Early Cold War(1945-1960)
1.Containment
2.Arms Race/Space Race
3.USSR
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. -
The Berlin Airlift
-
Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
-
Korean War
1950-1953 -
Sweatt V. Painter(court cases)
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal" -
Period: to
Civil Rights Era(1950-1970)
-
Rosenbergs trial
-
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
-
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 -
Period: to
Vietnam War(1954-1976)
-
Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
-
Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest
-
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
-
24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" at the March on Washington
-
John F.Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
-
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
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 -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States public Schools. -
First Man on the Moon
-
Kent State University shooting
-
Period: to
End of the Cold War(1970-1991)
-
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
-
1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
-
Three Mile Island Disaster
-
1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair
-
Period: to
1990s-21st Century(1990-2008)