US History 1887-2008

By leahsellers
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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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    The Great Depression

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    World War II

  • The United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    • Containment: resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    • Arms Race / Space Race: the competition between the US and the Soviet Union in result to gain supremacy
    • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
    • Communism: A system of government where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government
    • Domino Theory: the theory that a political event will cause others in neighboring countries

  • 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

  • The 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: program launched by President LBJ that fought against poverty and racial injustice
    • Thurgood Marshall: civil rights activist and the Court's first African American justice
    • Black Panthers: political organization that fought against police brutality towards black people
    • Non Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: nonviolent actions made in order to refuse certain laws or demands made by a government
    • Cesar Chavez: civil rights activist and Mexican American labor leader

  • Rosenbergs Trail

  • 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 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

  • 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: intergovernmental organization that takes care of oil markets
    • Sandra Day O'Connor: the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the US
    • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: requires federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of communities
    • AIDS epidemic: a deadly virus that took over the US and killed many individuals
    • Star Wars: missile defense system that intended to protect the US from attack by nuclear weapons

  • 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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    1990's - 21st Century