U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Anshul.Reddy
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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

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/12dJGRwF0mAg6CEgGk78HSwSRWL2V0UhviFo_AIY6Q6A/edit

  • Truman Doctrine

    It's a U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    It's a program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

    1950-1953

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegragation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 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 King's "I have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    It begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy test for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    It 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

    A law that 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990s-21st Century

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    It tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism.

  • Hurricane Katrina