US history; 1877-2008

By kyla.long
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War I (1914-1918)

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- ussr consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries and was the US's biggest enemy
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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

    arms race/space race- an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KjZvNAmwu1zmmbM4op0uxnSGsSJPwPJsX1sV7h27-Tg/edit

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

    1950-1953
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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    1955-1956

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • 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 (1970-1991)

  • 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 program

  • 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

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)