US history 1877-2008

By gracetesauro
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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 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

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    Early Cold War

  • Sweatt V. Painter

    A unamious court case that decided the equal protection clause that required Sweatt to be admitted to a university.
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Brown V. Board of education of Topeka

    The US supreme court ruled that the US state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.

  • Hernandez V. Texas

    The supreme court unanimously ruled that the 14th amendment applied to all racial and ethnic groups facing discrimination.
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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks arrest, many people protested and refused to ride city buses.

  • Little Rock Nine, a group of 9 african american students arrived at an all white school, making their way through a hateful crowd who shouted obscenities and even started throwing stuff at them.

  • Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuban refugees landed in Cuba and attempted to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.

  • Berlin wall was built to prevent berlin people from leaving as well as keeping ships from delivering goods to them.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Leaders from the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in a tense political and military standoff.

  • MLK I have a dream speech during the March at Washington.

  • John F Kennedy was assassinated in a car in Dallas Texas.

  • 24th Amendment

    After the 24th amendment passed citizens did not have to pay a tax in elections.

  • Civil rights act of 1964

    A pinpoint of civil rights and labor law in the US. The act outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This act authorized President Johnson to take any means necessary to retaliate the international peace and security in southeast Asia.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    President Johnson signed the law legislation that established Medicare and Medicaid programs.

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    A pinpoint of federal legislation in the US that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

  • Tet Offensive

    A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam.

  • Martin Luther King was assassinated on his balcony in Memphis Tennessee.

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    Adding onto the act of 1964, it prohibits discrimination concerning sale, rental or financing of housing based on race, sex, religion, and national origin.

  • Tinker V. Des Moines

    This Court case allowed the students to have free rights protected within the school.

  • Apollo 11 landed on the moon for the first time ever.

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    End of Cold War

  • Kent State University Shooting

    It was the killing of 4 and the wounding of none other unarmed students at Kent State University.

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

    The Pentagon Papers which were titled "report of the office of the secretary of defense Vietnam task force" were leaked to the press and were distrubuted.

  • 26th Amendment

    The 26th amendment allow US citizens, above the age 18 or older, to not be denied the right to vote on account of age.

  • Watergate Scandal

    A major political scandal in the United States including Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974.

  • Title IX

    This act prohibits sex based discrimination in any school or other education programs.

  • War Powers Act

    A federal law intended to check the US presidents power to commit the US to an armed conflict without consent of the congress.

  • Fall of Saigon

    The people of Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong captured the capitol of South Vietnam, Saigon.

  • Camp David Accords

    A pair of political agreements signed by an Egyptian and Israeli minister for peace.

  • 3 Mile Island Disaster

    A partial meltdown of reactor number 2 in Dauphin County Pennsylvania. It was a subsequent radiation leak.

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    A diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran, 52 Americans were being held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian students took the citizens. They were held hostage for 444 days.

  • Iran Contra Affair

    A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration which secretly facilitated the sale of arms in Iran.
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    1990s-21st Century