U.S. History: 1887-2008

By natalie.barlow
  • Period: to

    Early American History (1776-1860)

  • Period: to

    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

  • Period: to

    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

  • U.S. History: 1887-2008

  • Period: to

    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

  • Period: to

    Imperialism (1898-1910)

  • Period: to

    World War I (1914-1918)

  • Period: to

    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

  • Period: to

    Great Depression (1929-1939)

  • Period: to

    World War II (1939-1945)

  • Early Cold War

    a. Containment-America policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    b. Arms Race - 20th-century competition between 2 Cold War rivals the USSR and the US.
    c. The USSR-A federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991
    d. Communism-System of government all property is public and given things by the government according to their needs.
    e. Domino Theory- Theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.

  • United Nations formed

  • Period: to

    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

  • 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”
  • Period: to

    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • 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
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 1955-1956

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 1957

    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 1961

    Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 1961

    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963

    Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • 1963

    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 of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • 1968

    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

  • 1969

    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

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Period: to

    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax