US History: 1887-2008

By rose.penhallegon
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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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    The Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

    Representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference.
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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment: American policy resisting further expansion of communism around the world
    2. Arms Race/Space Race: competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the US and USSR
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia
    4. Communism: system of government where all property is public things are given by the government according to their needs.
    5. Domino Theory: if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, they all would

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

    A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany.

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • NATO Established

    Formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the threat posed by the Soviet Union.

  • Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.

  • 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

    Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information.

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by U.S.

    U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion.

  • 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 Polio Vaccine

    American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

    political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik.

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

    The Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students' effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which had declared segregated schooling to be unconstitutional.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

    a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

    The Wall was built to prevent East Germans from fleeing and stop an economically disastrous migration of workers.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.

  • 24th Amendment

    Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax.

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech”

    MLK Jr. called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

    The 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid Established

    Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters.

  • Tet Offensive

    A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • First Man on the Moon

    Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
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    End of the Cold War

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

    Was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.

  • 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.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War

    Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.
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    1990s-21st Century