U.S. History: 1887-2008

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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

  • Sweatt v. Painter

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    Imperialism

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    World War I

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • Social Security Act

    established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II

    Island Hopping
    Liberation of Concentration Camps
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Douglas MacArthur
    Chester W. Nimitz
    Navajo Code Talkers
    Tuskegee Airmen
    Flying Tigers
    The Manhattan Project
    Rosie the Riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bil

  • United Nations formed

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Hernandez v. Texas:

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Interstate Highway Act

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th Amendmen

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968:

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

  • War Powers Act

  • 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 Disaste

  • iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century

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