U.S. History:1887-2008

By fionamae.tuca
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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 policy of the United States of America, aimed at stopping the spread of Communism.
    2-Arms Race/Space Race: The competition between two Cold War rivals, the USSR and US, for dominance in spaceflight capability.
    3-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: A former federal union of 15 constituent republics.
    4-Communism: All social and economic activities are controlled by a totalitarian state.
    5-Domino Theory: Communist government nation lead to communist takeovers.

  • 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 "separated but equal"
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    Civil Rights Era

  • 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 v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Fegruson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 15th Amendment.
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine Integrate 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

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made 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

    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

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • 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.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Registration

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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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