US History: 1877-2008

By sage.montgomery
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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 - Policy used by US to stop spread of communism.
    Arms Race/Space Race - Race to see what country had the best resources.
    The USSR - Organization for countries who use communism.
    Communism - a political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid.
    Domino Theory - theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendement

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after WW2.

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

  • Sweatt Vs. 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's Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the US

  • Hernandez Vs. Texas

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

  • Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy Vs. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • 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

  • 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 the undeclared was in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act

    Prohibited the discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

  • 24th Amendment

    Removed poll taxes in order to vote.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    It offered African Americans a way to get around the barriers at the state and local levels that had prevented them from exercising their 15th Amendment right to vote.

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    It was decided that school officials could not prohibit only on the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning.

  • Kent State University Shooting

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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 troop to battle without Congressional approval.

  • 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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    1990s-21st Century