U.S History: 1887- 2008

By Bryan.Baker
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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

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    Early Cold War 1945 -1960

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 22 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”

  • Rosenberg 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
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    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • 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

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    End of the Cold War 1970-1991

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    End of the Cold War 1970-1991

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

  • 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

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century 1990-2008