US. History: 1887-2008

By Marco De La Grandiere
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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 1945: United Nations formed 1948: Berlin Airlift 1949: NATO established 1950-1953: Korean War 1951: Rosenbergs trial 1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States 1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine 1957: USSR launches Sputnik

    Containment-strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race-race to space between the us and russia
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-confederation of russia
    Communism- a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
    Domino Theory- 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • 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 Vietnam

  • 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

  • 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 the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century

  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax