US History 1887-2008

By bailey.grimmett
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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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    Early Cold War

    Containment-American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    Arms Race/Space Race-Competition nuclear warfare between USSR and US
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-Federal socialist state with Russia and 14 other states
    Communism-Government system where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs
    Domino Theory-Truman’s policy that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. 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 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

    Great Society-A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson
    Thurgood Marshall-American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    Black Panthers-organization of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-achieving goals through symbolic protests
    Cesar Chavez-Latino American civil rights activist

  • Rosenberg Trails

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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

  • 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, 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

  • 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

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    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 the Cold War

    OPEC-Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries
    Sandra Day O'Connor-woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate
    AIDS Epidemic-AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981
    Star Wars-proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    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

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century