US History Timeline 1877 - 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 I

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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

    Containment: Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
    Arms Race: arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union
    USSR: Soviet Union
    Communism: In a Communist system, individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things.
    Domino Theory: the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events

  • 22nd Amendment

    The 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

  • Korean War 1950 - 1953

  • 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 United States

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.

  • Hernandez vs 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax.

  • 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 of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunities 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.

  • First man on the moon

  • Tinker v Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States public schools.
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    End of the 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 the education programs.

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional Approval.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War.

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    1990s-21st Century