US History: 1877-2008

By tanner.markee
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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

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Berlin Airlift

  • 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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    Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenburg Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the US

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 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

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into all white

  • Berlin Wall Built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • MLK Speech at March on Washington

  • JFK assasinated

  • Gulf Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment- Abolished 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK is assasinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker vs. 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

  • Ratification of the 26th amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age

  • 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

  • Fall of Saigon, ends Vietnam War

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    1990s-21st Century