US history 1877-2008

By paige.baker
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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 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

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Berlin airlift

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall plan

  • NATO established

  • Sweatt V. Painter

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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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

  • bay of pigs invasion

  • berlin wall built

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • 24th Amendment

  • Martin Luther King's "i have a dream" speech

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tx

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Civil Rights Act

    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 test for voters

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  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

  • First man on the moon

  • Kent State Shooting

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    End Of The Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

  • Title IX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.

  • War Powers Act

  • Watergate Scandal

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran hostage crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1900s- 21st Century