US History 1877-2008

By allisondodson

  • Early American History (1776-1860)

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    Early American History (1776-1860)

  • Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

  • The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

  • The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

  • Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

  • World War I (1914-1918)

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    World War I (1914-1918)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • World War II ends

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

  • Winston Churchill delivers “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri

  • Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers

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    End of Cold War

  • Congress approves the Marshall Plan

  • – Berlin Airlift

  • 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 (1950-1970)

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • Korean War 1950-1933

  • 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 (1954-1976)

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

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    Civil Rights Era

  • – US stockpile of atomic bombs is estimated at 4000; Soviets have 1000.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    1955-1956

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

  • OPEC

    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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

  • – Cuban Missile Crisis

  • cuban mistsle 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

  • Great Society

    a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the 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

  • Black Panthers

    a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

  • Tet Offensive

  • Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience

    millions of blacks took to the streets for peaceful protests as well as acts of civil disobedience and economic boycotts in what some leaders describe as America's second civil war.

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

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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

  • Cesar Chavez

    American labor leader and civil rights activist

  • 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

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

  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    requires the Federal Reserve and other federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Sandra Day O’Connor

    the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

  • AIDS Epidemic

    The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States as early as 1960,

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981:

  • Star Wars

    President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that would construct a space-based anti-missile system.

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987
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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)