US History: 1877-2008

By elias.quinn
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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

    Containment, Arms Race/Space Race, The Union of Soviet Socialist, Republics, Communism , Domino Theory

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Amendment Ratified

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO Established

  • Sweatt vs. Painter

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez vs 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

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    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

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech

  • John F Kennedy Assasinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    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 ammendment

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK Jr assasinated

  • 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

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, leads to Nixons Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of 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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    1990s 21st Century