U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Jackson Bertling
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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 20s

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    Great depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment-It was a strategy used to keep communism out of the USA.
    Arms Race/Space Race- A competition to see who could posses more weapons and to see who could get to the moon first after sputnik.
    Domino Theory- If one country turns communist the rest might follow.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The USSR was created, it is a communist country.
    Communism- The equal distribution of land and money however the government controls all.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

    This amendment limited the president to 2 terms.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

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    Civil Rights Era

    Great Society- President Lyndon B. Johnson with ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment.
    Thurgood Marshall- the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
    Black Panthers- It was a revolutionary organization of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience- To go against and protest something without the use of violence.
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    Civil Rights Era

    Cesar Chavez- labor leader community organizer businessman

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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 an equal opportunity basis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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 rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC- They deal with oil and petroleum
    Sandra Day O’Connor- first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.
    AIDS Epidemic-37.9 million people are infected with HIV globally
    Star Wars- missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.

  • Kent State University shooting

  • 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

    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

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century