U.S. History: 1887-2008

By MARIA.DICENTA
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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 (1929-1939)

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. a United States policy using many strategies to prevent spread of communism abroad.
    2. arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union
    3. comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
    4. a socio-economic political movement.
    5. a theory in US that if 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

  • 1950-1953: Korean War

    to 1953

  • 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

    Great Society- was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.
    Thurgood Marshall- American lawyer and civil rights activist
    Black Panthers- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, ...
    Cesar Chavez- Spanish American labor leade

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 1955-1956: 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

  • 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

  • 24th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

  • Medicare and Medicaid 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 v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC-oil brought in from 5 countries
    Sandra Day O’Connor- first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities
    AIDS Epidemic- people with AIDS were usually put to kill at this time
    Star Wars- strategic defense initiative

  • 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century