U.S History 1887-2008

By Darien.Willis
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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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    United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after world war II

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • sweatt v. painter

  • Korean War

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    civil rights era

  • rosebergs trial

  • brown v. board of education of torpeka

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • hernandez v. texas

    mexicans american and all opther races provide equal protection under the 14 amendment.
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • montgomery bus boycott after rosa parks arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • little rock nine intergrated into an all-white school in little rock

  • bay of pigs invasion in cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • martin luther king "i have a dream speech".

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in vietnam

  • 24th amendment

    abolishes poll tax

  • civil rights act of 1964

    made discrimination based on race.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • voting rights act of 1965

    eliminated literacy test for voters

  • martin luther king assissinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • civil rights act 1968

    prohibeted discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • first man on moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old

  • title IX

    protects people from discrimination

  • War Powers Act

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

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    1990s-21st Century