US History

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    Early American History(1776-1860)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War 1 (1914-1918)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War 2 (1939-1945)

  • United Nations Formed

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    early Cold War (1945-1976)

    Early Cold War unit 7
    1.Containment
    2.Arms race/space race
    3.the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4.Communism
    5.Domino theory
  • 22 amendment

    Prohibits or stops anyone who was elected twicee from being elected again.
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countires threatened by communism.
  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall plan

    Program to help european countries rebuild after ww2.
  • NATO established

  • 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 (1950-1970)

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    Civil Rights era

  • Rosenberg's trial

  • 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 (1954-1976)

  • Jonas Salk invents the pollo 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.

  • Berin 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 assassinated in Dallas, TX.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • 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.
  • 24th amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax.
  • 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 discriminationin the sale or rental of housing.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • First man on the moon.

  • Kent State university shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment established.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.
  • War Powers act

  • Watergate scandal

  • 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 (1990-2008)