U.S. history: 1887-2008

By hamzah.alnahas
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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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    Imperalism

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    World War 1

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1.containment- containing communism, important because this is the reason the USA joined in the war.
    2.arms race/space race- trying to have better tech, made countries compete.
    3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The USSR, important because it was one side of cold war.
    4.Communism- A government that has one leader and everyone gets the same.
    5.Domino Theory- if a country has communist it would spread to neighboring countries, important=made people want communism stopped
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    Vietnam War

  • 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

    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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 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

    1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
    1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
    1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
    1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
    1969: First Man on the Moon

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act of

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of

    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 the cold war

  • 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:

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990's-21st century

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Big five

    Barack Obama
    al-Qaeda
    No Child Left Behind
    President Clinton’s Impeachment
    Presidential Election of 2000

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina