U.S. History 1887-2008

By zeamyawillis
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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

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment: a U.S. policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism.
    2. Arms Race/Space Race: When two or more countries increase the size and quality of military resources for over each other.
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Comprising a confederation.
    4. Communism: A political theory that advocates a society that has no rulers or money.
    5. Domino Theory: A political event in one country will cause similar events in other countries.

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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

  • 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: a domestic program in the administration of President LBJ that instituted social welfare programs.
    Thurgood Marshall: an American lawyer and civil rights activist. The first African-American justice.
    Black Panther: a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism against police brutality.
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: the practice of achieving a social change without being violent.
    Cesar Chavez: a Latino American civil rights activist.

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • 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

  • 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 was Built

    This was built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King's Speech

    "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

  • JFK was Assassinated

    This occurred in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    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

  • Assassination of MLK

  • 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

  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC: created to provide states with technical and economic aid.
    Sandra Day O'Connor: first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the U.S.
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: encourage financial institutions to help meet credit needs.
    AIDS Epidemic: one of the world's most serious health and development challenges.
    Star Wars: strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union.

  • Kent State University shooting

    The shooting of unarmed college students.

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.

  • Watergate Scandal (leading to Nixon's resignation)

    Political sandal in the U.S. involving President Richard Nixon

  • 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.

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

  • Camp David Accords

    A pair of political agreements signed following twelve says of secret negotiations at Camp David (the country retreat of Presidents).

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    A nuclear power plant cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the reactor. The most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history.

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    Iranian students detained more than 50 Americans as hostages.

  • Iran Contra Affair

    Scandal during the Regan administration in which Colonel Oliver North took blame for illegally selling weapons to Iran in order to fund a rebel group in Nicaragua.
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    1990s-21st Century