U.S. History: 1887-2008

By PRANAV.PREJITH
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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

    Containment-American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    Arms Race/Space Race-a race between the U.S. and the USSR to get to the moon and make better weapons
    USSR-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public
    Domino Theory-the theory that a political event will cause another event

  • 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

  • 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-society with the main goal of eliminating poverty and racial inequality
    Thurgood Marshall-the first African American that served on the Supreme Court, and greatly contributed to the ending of official segregation in the US
    Black Panthers-the Black Panther Party was created by college student in order to protest police brutality against black people
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-protests in which people avoided violence and used other methods to get their point across
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    Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era Continued

    Cesar Chavez-civil-rights activist who used nonviolent methods to help overworked farmworkers, and who formed the National Farm Workers Association

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, an organization that aims to coordinate the sale of petroleum and stabilize the economy
    Sandra Day O’Connor - A politician and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 -
    Federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities
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    End of the Cold War Continued

    AIDS Epidemic - A global epidemic of the HIV disease that has killed over 700,000 people
    Star Wars - A defensive system created to protect against potential nuclear attacks

  • 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

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century