U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Raben.Muhammad
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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 Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Containment

    the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. This is important so people aren't being hurt or injured from things.

  • Arms Race/Space Race

    Competition between the U.S and Soviet Union to see who can create better weapons and land on the moon first. This is significant because even though the soviet union launched a satellite into orbit first, we made it to the moon first

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    The USSR was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Their significant is that they were the ones going against the U.S during the cold war.

  • Communism

    Communism is a philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society. This is significant because this is what caused the cold war,

  • Domino Theory

    the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. This is significant because once USSR converted to communism, other countries followed in their lead

  • 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 II.

  • NATO was made

  • 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 the United States

  • 1950 - 1953 Korean War started and ended

  • 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

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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

  • 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 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

  • Kent State University shooting

    A shooting happened at Kent State University
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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 education programs

  • 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

    an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration, including bugging the offices of political opponents.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

    a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    a accident that was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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    Iran Hostage Crisis

    was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran.
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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century