U.S. History: 1887-2008

By cayden.mcclure
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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 20's

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    1- Containment
    2- Arms/Space Race
    3- The Union of Soviet Socialists Republic
    4- Communism
    5- Domino Theory

  • Truman Doctrine

    Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prevents anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Plan to help European countries rebuild after WWII

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

  • 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 Trials

  • 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
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents Polio Vaccine

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    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 Missle 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 Medicade 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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in the US school systems, Supreme Court's majority ruled that neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Changed voting age from 21 to 18

  • 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, leads to Nixons resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Crisis

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century