US history 1887-2008

By katie.mcdonald
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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

    1.containment
    2.arms race, space race
    3.USSR
    4.communism
    5.domino theory

  • 22nd amendment

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • rosenbergs trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • korean war

    1950-1953

  • 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 in veitnam

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker vs 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

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • war is power act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • fall of the saigon, marks the end of the veitnam war

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1900's-21st century