US History: 1887-2008

By tayan chaitezvi
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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 progessive era

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    imperialism

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    world war 1

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    roaring twenties

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    world war 2

  • united nations formed

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    early cold war

    containment-Stop spread of communism arms and race/ space-a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons union of soviet socialist republics- a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia communism-a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society domino theory-20th Century Foreign Policy theory, promoted by government of US, speculated if one land

  • truman doctrine

    policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatned by communism

  • berlin airlift

  • marshall plan

    program to help european countries rebuild after after world war 11

  • nato established

  • korean war

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    civil rights era

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • rosenbergs trials

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 22 admendment

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

  • first h- bomb denotated by the united states

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    vietnam war

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment

  • jonas salk invents 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 Missle Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 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

  • 24 amendment

    The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

  • Gulf of tonkin resolution

    begins undelcared war in vietnam

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tet Offensive

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the first ammendment rights for students in the united states public schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    end of the cold war

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26 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 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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    1990s- 21st century

  • end of cold war/ big five

    OPEC-The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
    Sandra Day O’Connor-Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings
    AIDS Epidemic-eported a small grouping of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
    Star Wars (NOT the movies)- U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks

  • big five

    great society- domestic program that federally sponsored social welfare programs.
    thurgood marshall- American lawyer and civil rights activist
    black panthers- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization
    non violent protesters- they don't harm or hurt anyone it's just peaceful ptotest
    ceaser chavez- became the United Farm Workers, and he used nonviolent tactics to gain union contracts with California vineyard owners.