U.S. Histroy 1887-2008

By A'verie Robertson
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    First Man on the Moon

    Apollo 11 brought the first man to the moon, Neil Armstrong
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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

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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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

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Early cold war

    Containment: strategies to prevent the spread on communism
    Arms race: competition between nations for superiority
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: soviet socialist republic group
    Communism: political society in which all people work to be paid for their needs
    Domino theory :theory that a political even will effect other countries

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 1948

  • Korean War

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    Civil Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    this amendment limits the amount of times a president can be elected to united states to only two.

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 1955

  • Vietnam War

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    civil rights protest made after Rosa Parks was forced to give up her seat.

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

    group of African American students enrolled in a white school

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

    a failed landing in Cuba by exiles that opposed fiddles castors revolution

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

    a barrier that divided from Germany and west Berlin to contain communisms

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    the soviet union planned an attack on Commonest Cuba by missiles

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

    a speech given by MLK in Washington about civil rights

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

    the 35th president assassinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    land mark, out laws discrimination for race, gender, color, religion, sex, national origin, etc.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    signed on July 30th by Lyndon B Johnson Protects health of Americans

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

    North Vietnam attacked many outposts in South Vietnam

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

    in Memphis Martin Luther King was assinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines: defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

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

  • Kent State University shooting

    school shooting in which resulted in four killed and 9 wounded

  • Iran hostage Crisis

    52 people were held hostage during a US and Iran standoff
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    End of Cold war

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    Reports on official secretary defense was leaked for many to see

  • 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

    FBI and security broke into democratic before months before election

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

    When peoples army of Vietnam and Viet Cong captured the Saigon

  • Camp David Accords

    The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland

  • Three Mile Island Distance

    accidental meltdown inflicting oil production

  • Iran Contra Fair

    scandal that occurred during Reagan second Administration
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    1990s-21at Century

  • 24th Amendment

    the right to vote at any primary or or other election