U.S. History: 1877-2008

By aaliyah.forrest
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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
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race
    3. USSR
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • The Truman Doctrine

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

  • The 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

    1950-1953

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
    1952-1954

  • 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

  • 1955-1956

    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 1957

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

  • 1961

    Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 1961

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

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24 Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 1963

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

  • 1963

    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 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

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • 1968

    Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  • 1969

    First man on the moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the 1st amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    this amendment changed 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

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

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    1990s-21 Century