U.S History 1887-2008

By sidney covington
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/reconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

    1. Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    2. Philanthropy 3.Monopoly 4.Jane Addams
    3. Laissez-Faire
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    The Progressive Era

    1. Muckrakers
    2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    3. The Great Migration
    4. NAACP
    5. Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)
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    Imperialism

    1. Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Rough Riders
    3. Foreign Policy
    4. Immigration Quotas
    5. Yellow Journalism
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    World War 1

    1. Alvin York
    2. Homefront
    3. M.A.I.N (Causes of WWI)
    4. Sussex Pledge
    5. American Expeditionary Forces
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    Roaring Twenties

    1. Social Darwinism
    2. The Red Scare
    3. Assembly Line
    4. Return to Normalcy
    5. Harlem Renaissance
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    Great Depression

    1. Hooverville
    2. The New Deal
    3. Causes of the Great Depression
    4. Court Packing
    5. Eleanor Roosevelt
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    World War 2

    1. Island Hopping
    2. Liberation of Concentration Camps
    3. Dwight Eisenhower
    4. Douglas MacArthur
    5. Chester W. Nimitz
    6. Navajo Code Talkers
    7. Tuskegee Airmen
    8. Flying Tigers
    9. The Manhattan Project
    10. Rosie the Riveter
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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory
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    United Nations Formed

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    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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    22nd Amendment

    This prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
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    Marshall Plan

    A program to help European countries rebuild after WWII.
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    Berlin Airlift

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    NATO established

  • 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 Rights Era

    Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
    Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
    Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
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    Korean war

    Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
    Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
    Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
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    Roenbergs Trial

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    First H-Bomb detonated by the US

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    Vietnam War

    Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
    Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
    Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican 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
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    Jonas Salk invents the Polo Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

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

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    USSR Launches Sputik

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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

  • Cuban Missile Crises

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This began undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Civil Rights Act of

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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • Voting Rights Act of

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold War

    Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
    Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
    Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    This 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

    This law limited the President’s 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-21st Century

    Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
    Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
    Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries