U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Lindsey liu
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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: the action of keeping harm from arms way
    -Arms Race/Space Race: competition between nations to be on top
    -The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: comprising a consideration of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation
    -Communism: Theory derived from Karl Marx
    -Domino Theory: Theory that political events also affect other countries

  • 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

  • Sweat vs painter

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown vs board of education

  • hernandez v texas

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa parks arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    Little Rock 9 inter grated into an all white school

  • Bay of pigs invade Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Cuban missal crisis

  • MLK jr i have a dream speech

  • John f Kennedy killed

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution

    Begins the war in Vietnam

  • 24th amendment

  • Civil rights act

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting rights act

  • Tet offensive

  • MLK jr killed

  • Civil rights act

  • Tinker v.Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in the US public school.

  • First man on the moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC: imposed against the U.S.
    Sandra Day O’Connor: First women in the supreme court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities
    AIDS Epidemic: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
    Star Wars (NOT the movies): the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • War powers act

    Law limits the president rights to send troops into battle without congress approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon

  • 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