US History 1877-2008

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    Early American History

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    Cival 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 I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: US policy of resisting expansion of communism.
    ArmsRace/SpaceRace: The US & SovietUnion raced against eachother 2 produce better technology than the other.
    TheUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics: Another name for the SovietUnion, a communist state that had merged multiple countries into 1.
    Communism: A system where all property is public & people work & are given things by the government.
    DominoTheory: The theory that neighboring countries will have similar political events.

  • 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 begins

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    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

    Great Society - Domestic programs created by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65
    Thurgood Marshall - The first African-American supreme court justice
    Black Panthers - A political organization made up of African-Americans seeking equality ans justice
    Civil Disobedience - nonviolent political protest
    Cesar Chavez - A leader of nonviolent protests against unfair working conditions/activist for better working conditions

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean war ends

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    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 after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, so now votes don't have to be bought.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    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

    Voting Rights Act of 1965: Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    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.

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
    Sandra Day O’Connor - first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 - federal law made to encourage banks to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities
    AIDS Epidemic - A disease that attacks the immune system spread as the government turned a blind eye
    Star Wars - President Reagan's proposal of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based anti-missile system

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Lowered the voting age to 18.

  • Title IX

    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 (End of Vietnam War)

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century