U.S. History 1877 to 2008

By jasondgolf
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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 1

  • 18th Amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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    The Roaring Twenties

    Social Darwinism
    The Red Scare
    Assembly Line
    Return to Normalcy
    Harlem Renaissance

  • 19th Amendment

    women are given the right to vote

  • Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • American Indian Citizenship Act

    granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles
    The New Deal
    Causes of the Great Depression (5)
    Court Packing
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • Social Security Act

    Established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old-age pensions, and insurance for families

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War 2

    Island Hopping
    Liberation of Concentration Camps
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Douglas MacArthur
    Chester W. Nimitz
    Navajo Code Talkers
    Tuskegee Airmen
    Flying Tigers
    The Manhattan Project
    Rosie the Riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Executive Order 9066

    Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • G.I. Bill

    Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Specialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War 1950-1953

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

    Guerilla Warfare

  • Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Authorized the building of a national highway system

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21m years old to 18 years old

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

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

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) (1990-1991)

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    1990's-21st Century

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    1990's and 21st Century

    Barack Obama
    al-Qaeda
    No Child Left Behind
    President Clinton's Impeachment
    Presidential Election of 2000

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

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

  • USA PATRIOT Act

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

  • Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • Hurricane Katrina