US History: 1877- 2008

By kyndall.wheaton
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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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    Unit 7: Early Cold War

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Truman Doctrine

    US 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

  • Sweatt vs painter

    ruled the separate law school at UT failed to qualify as "separate but equal."
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the United States

  • Brown vs board of education on Topeka

    overturned plessy vs ferguson and mandated desegregation.

  • Hernandez vs TX

    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, AR

  • Bay of pigs invasion in Cuba

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • MLK I have a dream speech at march on Washington

  • JFK assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • 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

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK is assassinated

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • Tinker vs Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States public schools.

  • First man on moon

  • 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

    protect people discriminated based on gender in education programs.

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President's rights 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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three mile island disaster

  • Iran contra affair

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    1990s-21st Century