US history 1877-2008

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    Early American History

  • 11th amendment

    prevents suits against states
  • 12th amendment

    election of the president ( election procedures )
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    Civil war/Reconstruction

  • 13th amendment

    abolition of slavery outlawed
  • 14th amendment

    right to be free from discrimination in states to have due process of law, to have equal protection of the law
  • 15th amendment

    black suffrage
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    The Gilded Age

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    The a Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

  • 16th amendment

    individuals income tax
  • 17th amendment

    election of national senators
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    World War 1

  • 18th amendment

    prohibition of alcoholic beverages
  • 19th amendment

    women's suffrage
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    Roaring twenties

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    Communism

    A political and economical system that seeks to create classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories are owned and controlled by the public.
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    A federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from a while.
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    Great Depression

  • 20th amendment

    lame-duck period shortened for federal officials
  • 21st amendment

    repeal to prohibition ( they can drink again )
  • House Un-american activities committee (HUAC)

    congressional committee investigated communist influence in the United States
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    World War 2

  • United nations formed

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    Early Cold War

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    Arm race

    arm race competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons between the US and the soviet union and their respective allies during the cold war.
  • Iron curtain

    Winston Churchill's term for the extension of communist control over eastern Europe
  • Truman doctrine

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

    American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world. Significance is that it help stop the spread of communism.
  • Berlin Airlift

    response to a soviet blockade of allied controlled sections of Berlin, successfully brought food and medical supplies allied controlled areas of Berlin.
  • Marshall plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2
  • Beat generation

    group highlighted by writers and artists who stressed spontaneity and spiritually instead of apathy and conformity
  • NATO established

    promotes democratic values and encourages constitution and cooperation on defense and security issues to build trust, and in the long run, prevent conflict
  • Mao zedong

    Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976
  • McCarthyism

    the "witch hunt" for communists in the United States government during the 1950s
  • 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

  • Rosenberg's trial

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged and executed for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia, violating the Espionage act of 1917.
  • 22nd amendment

    limitation of presidential term of office
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

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    Domino theory

    the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Space race

    Competition between US and USSR to achieve first in spaceflights capability.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Sputnik

    each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 23rd amendment

    voters in Washington DC given the right to vote for presidential electors
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

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

  • Brinkmanship

    policy of using the threat of nuclear war in order to protect national interests
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Was a 1 month, 4 day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th amendment

    abolition of poll taxes
  • Gulf on Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam
  • 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
  • 24th amendment

    abolishes the poll tax
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • 25th amendment

    succession of offices of the president
  • Tet offensive

    A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    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 Cold War

  • 1st amendment

    Freedom of religion, press, speech, Assembly, and petition
  • 2nd amendment

    right to bear arms
  • 3rd amendment

    right to not have to quarter soldiers and seizures
  • 4th amendment

    right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
  • 5th amendment

    right to grand jury indictment, no double jeopardy, freedom from self-incrimination, due process of law
  • 6th amendment

    right to be informed of charges be present when witness speaks in court, to call defense witnesses, to have a lawyer
  • 7th amendment

    right to a jury in civil cases
  • 8th amendment

    freedom from excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
  • 9th amendment

    guarantee of rights not listed in constitution
  • 10th amendment

    rights of states and people
  • 26th amendment

    18 year olds given the right to vote
  • Pentagon papers leaked

    "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force" small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
  • 26th amendment

    Moved 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 presidents rights to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam War

    when communist North Vietnamese forces took control of the capital of South Vietnam. The event in 1975 marked the end of nearly 30 years of internal conflict and ushered in 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

  • Al-Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War. Al-Qaeda operates as a network of Islamic extremists and Salafist jihadists
  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

    The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes.
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    1990s-21st Century

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

    Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. President Bush and his chief foreign policy advisers were more pro-active toward Russia and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Communist monolith than while it was teetering.
  • 27th amendment

    limits the power of congress to increase it's own salaries
  • NAFTA

    created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
  • President Clinton's Impeachment

    Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice,
  • Presidential election of 2000

    The court stopped the recount, and Florida's electoral votes went to Bush. Bush became president of the United States, although Gore had won the popular vote.
  • No child left behind

    The No Child Left Behind Act authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. The law is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school.
  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

    a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States
  • USA PATRIOT Act

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

    a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas
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    Barack Obama

    44th president, first dark skin president