U.S. History: 1887-2008

By robbiegarcia
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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

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    Early Cold War

    Containment - a policy used to stop the spreading of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race - competition between Soviets and US for supremacy in nuclear warfare
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - union of federal socialist state
    Communism - a political movement where more things are shared by the people and there would be no rules or money
    Domino Theory - the idea that if a key nation went under the control of communists, others would also.

  • An organization that is meant to maintain international peace and security.

    United Nations formed
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    Big Five

    OPEC-Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries
    Sandra Day O’Connor- Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977- encourages commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers
    AIDS- virus attacks and weakens the immune system.
    Star Wars(NOT the movies)- development by the US of a defense in outer space against intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Amendment 22

    The 22nd amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • A military airlift that brought food and other needed goods into berlin by air.

    Berlin Airlift

  • Intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.

    NATO established
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    Civil Rights Era

  • ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

    Sweatt v. Painter

  • War between North and South Korea when N Korea invaded S.

    1950-1953 - Korean War

  • overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • A court case where Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

    Rosenbergs Trial

  • On a small pacific island an explosion named the "Mike Shot" was successful

    First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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    Vietnam War

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

    Hernandez v. Texas

  • a vaccine used to prevent poliomyelitis.

    Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine.

  • African Americans refused to ride the city buses

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • the day nine african americans signed up for a school located in AK

    Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • The Soviet Union launched the the earth's first artificial satellite Sputnik 1.

    USSR launches sputnik

  • around 1,200 exiles, armed with American weapons and using American landing craft, waded ashore at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba

    Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

    Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War.

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Abolishes the poll tax

    24th Amendment

  • King urged America to \"make real the promises of democracy.\" King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.

    Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald

    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law legislation that established the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

    Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Eliminated literacy tests for voters

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam

    Tet Offensive

  • fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m.

    Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

    Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    the U.S. Supreme Court established (7–2) the free speech and political rights of students in school settings.

  • Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon

    First Man on the Moon

  • shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio

    Kent State University shooting
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    End of the Cold War

    Great Society - domestic program in the administration that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
    Thurgood Marshall - American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Black Panthers - political organization founded in 1966 to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience
    Cesar Chavez - founded the organization that became the United Farm Workers

  • revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks—none of which were reported in the mainstream media.

    Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

    Title IX

  • War Powers Act

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

  • political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation

    Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • marked not only the end of the Vietnam War, but the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist Rule.

    Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam War

  • pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978

    Camp David Accords

  • militants seized 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year

    1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis

  • meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979

    1979: Three Mile Island Disaster

  • US President Ronald Reagan’s pre-occupation with the spread of communism internationally, in particular in the United States’ own backyard of Central America.

    1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair
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    1990s-21st Century