US History: 1877-2008

By Everett.Tillman
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    Early American History

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence

  • Constitution Written

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    1. Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of industry/robber barons)
    2. Philanthropy
    3. Monopoly
    4. Jane Addams
    5. Laissez-faire
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    The Progressive Era

    1. Muckrekers
    2. Initiative, referendum, recall
    3. The Great Migration
    4. NAACP
    5. Immigration Issues
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    Imperialism

    1. Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Rough Riders
    3. Foreign Policy
    4. Immigration Quotas
    5. Yellow Journalism
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    World War 1

    1. Alvin York
    2. Homefront
    3. M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    4. Sussex Pledge
    5. American Expeditionary Forces
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    Roaring Twentiies

    1. Social Darwinism
    2. The Red Scare
    3. Assembly Line
    4. Return to Normalcy
    5. Harlem Renaissance
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    Great Depression

    1. Hoovervilles
    2. The New Deal
    3. Causes of the Great Depression (5)
    4. Court Packing
    5. Eleanor Roosevelt
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    World War 2

    1. Island Hopping
    2. Liberation of Concentration Camps
    3. Dwight Eisenhower
    4. Douglas MacArthur
    5. Chester W. Nimitz
    6. Navajo Code Talkers
    7. Tuskegee Airmen
    8. Flying Tigers
    9. The Manhattan Project
    10. Rosie the Riveter

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment: The plan used to by the US to contain the spread of communism
    2. Arms/Space Race: A race between the US and USSR to see who could make the strongest weapons and get to space first.
    3. The Union of Soviet Republics: The USSR and the US's rival power.
    4. Communism: A form of government in which everyone is equal, and all business is owned by the government.
    5. Domino Theory: The theory that if one political event happens in one country, it will happen to a neighboring country.

  • 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

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H Bomb detonated by the U.S.

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery 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

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

  • 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 on 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 Amendment

    Abolishes the poll Tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • 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 ammendment rights for students in the United States Public schools.

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Ammendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.

  • 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

  • Water Gate Scandal, Which lead to Nixon's Resignation

  • 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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    The Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century

    Barack Obama: 44th president of the US
    Al-Qaeda: Terrorist group who caused the attack on the twin towers
    No Child left behind: Added programs to schools for special needs kids
    President Clinton's Impeachment: He was impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
    Presidential Election of 2000: Decided the next president for the next for to 8 years
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    Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Fall of the USSR- Official end of the cold war

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, United States, and Canada

  • USA Patriot Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Attack on world trade center and pentagon

  • Hurricane Katrina