U.S. History: 1877-2008

By BROOKE.JOHNSON
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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 (UN) formed

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    Early Cold War

    1)Containment: The US and UK wanted to keep the threat of communism away from their capitalism, 2)Arms Race/Space Race: an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the USSR and the USA, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability as an attempt to one-up each other, 3)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was what the Russian government called its empire over Eastern Europe, 4)Communism: a threat to capitalism, 5)Domino Theory: diffusion theory of communism to neighbours

  • Truman Doctorine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Aircraft

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Beginning of Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

    Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Sociey" was a response to disciminayion based on race and gender in the mid-century. The Black Panthers were the "violent" opposite of MLK Jr.'s civil disobedience (non-violent protests). Important figures include: Thurgood Marshall, who was the lawyer of Brown v. the Board of Education (over segregation of schools), who later became a supreme court judge, and Cesar Chavez, who used protests that attacked economic overlords that weren't paying employees enough.

  • Sweatt v. Painter

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

  • Rosenbergs' Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • "End" of the Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    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

  • 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 Amendment

    Abolishes 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

  • 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 the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    Jimmy Carter passes the Communiy Reinvestment Act of 1977, but does not get re-elected. Ronald Reagan then becomes president, elects Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the supreme court, has several sideline skirmishes with OPEC countries, proposes his "Star Wars" plan, and ignores the AIDS Epidemic that began with him in office because it only affected the LGBTQ+ community in the beginning.

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • War Powers 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

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    begins 1979, ends 1981

  • Iran Contra Affair

    begins 1985, ends 1987
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    1990s-21st Century