US History 1887-2008

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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 20’s

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early cold war

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    Unit 7- Early Cold War

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/Space Race
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    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 2.
  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

  • Sweatt .vs. 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

  • Brown .vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy .vs. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
  • Hernandez .vs. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all the 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 Missle Crisis

  • 24th Amendment

    Prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.
  • 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

    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 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

    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