U.S. History: 1887-2008

By jaylen.jenkins
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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

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great depression

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    World war 2

  • United nations formed

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    Early cold war

    1. containment: Keeping communism from spreading to non communist countries
    2. arms race/space race: Us, and USSR both built up their nuclear weapons supply.
    3. The union of soviet socialist republics: the other super powers doing the soviet union.
    4. communism: total government control with no input from the people.
    5. Domino theory: something happening in one country will/can spread and happen in a neighboring country

  • 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 2

  • Nato established

  • Korean war

  • 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 right era

  • Rosenberg trials

  • 22 Amendment

    Prohibits anyone that has been elected president twice from being elected.

  • First H-bomb detonated by the united states

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    Vietnam war

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexicans Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk's invents the polio vaccine

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    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 Kings "I Have a Dream" speech at march at Washington

  • John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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 a equal opportunity basis

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or renting 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 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

  • War Powers Act (1973)

    law limited the Presidents 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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    1990's- 21 century