US History

By kamryn_l21
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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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    US History

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    The Progressive Era

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    Impieralism

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    World War 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/ Space Race
    3. USSR
    4. Communism
    5. Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

    The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. Under the amendment, someone who fills an unexpired presidential term lasting more than two years is also prohibited from being elected president more than once.

  • The Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Marshall Plan

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO was 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

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Korean War

  • 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

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 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 ammendment

    abolished 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 moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Ammendment

    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 the Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987
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    1990s-21st Century(1990-2008)