us history 1887-2006

By leah.quenzer
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    early american history

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    civil war

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    the guilded age

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    porgressive era

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    impearalism

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    world war 1

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    Roaring 20s

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    great depression

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    world war 2

  • united nations formed

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    early cold war

    containment: Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
    Arms Race: The term is often used quite loosely to refer to any military buildup or spending increases by a group of countries.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991, Its territory included much of Eastern Europe, parts of Northern Europe and Western Asia, and all of Central and North Asia.

  • truman doctrine

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

  • 22nd ammendment

    The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. Under the amendment, someone who fills an unexpired presidential term lasting more than two years is also prohibited from being elected president more than once.

  • Berlin aircraft

  • marshall plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • korean war

  • 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

  • rosenburg trials

  • first H bomb designated by US

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    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

  • polio vaccine invented

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • USSR sputnik

  • 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 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
    Civil Rights Act of 1968: prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tinker Vs. des monies

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

  • 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 that limited the President’s right 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

  • 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