U.S. History:1887-2008

By Jesslyn Cabrera
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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 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-policy to stop spread of communism.2.Arms Race/Space Race-competition between two Cold War rivals,to achieve firsts in spaceflight.3.The Union of Soviet Socialist -communist country including Russia,Ukraine,and 12 other soviet socialist.4.Communism - government where all property is public are given things according to their needs.5.Domino Theory-one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 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 trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

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    Civil Rights Era

    Great Society-domestic programs
    Thurgood Marshall-lawyer and activist and justice supreme court
    Black Panthers-party for self-defense
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-active refusal of a citizen
    Cesar Chavez-American labor leader

  • 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

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax/right to vote

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
    Civil Rights Act of 1968: prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • 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

    known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre
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    End Of Cold War

    OPEC-organization of petroleum exporting countries
    Sandra Day O’Connor- attorney and politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations
    AIDS Epidemic-Human Immunodeficiency Virus
    Star Wars -Reagents star wars defense program

  • 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

    suspected the conversations in the Oval Office were being taped. This information became the bombshell that helped force Richard Nixon to resign rather than be impeached.

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

  • Camp David Accords

    The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County

  • Iran Contra Affair

    was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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    1990s-21st century