U.S History 1877-2008

By madeline.crowell
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    Early American history

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    Civil War

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    Gilded age

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    Progressive era

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    Imperialism

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    World War

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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

    -containment
    -arms race/ space race
    -USSR
    -communism
    -domino theory

  • 22nd Ammendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European counties rebuild after WW2.

  • NATO is established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    Ruled the separate law by school.
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H- Bomb by US

  • Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans has equal protection under the 14th 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 interrogated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Boy of Pigs invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • MLK's Speech

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made discrimination illegal to employers

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting rights act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale of housing.

  • Tinker v. Moines

    Defended 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 Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender.

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • Watergate scandle

  • Fall of Saigon

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century