US history 1887-2008

By LAUREN.VOSSMAN
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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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    WW2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: Trying to keep communism were it is
    Arms/space race: USA vs USSR in weapons and astraunout creation battle
    USSR: communist russia and co
    Communism: attempt at classless society, in the transition period ends up with gov killing everyone who gets lucky and taking their stuff, so everyones poor or dead except the people in power
    Domino theory: communism will spread

  • 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 trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

  • Brown v board of education

    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

  • 24 amendment

    abolished 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 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 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

  • Wars power 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