U.S History 1877-2008

By carter edwards
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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: Foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of cold war
    Arms Race: occurs when two or more nations compete in increases in military personnel and materiel
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
    Communism: society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
    Domino Theory: one country's would follow each other into communism

  • 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 established

  • Korean War

  • 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

    Great Society-a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs
    Thurgood Marshall-The first black justice appointed to the US Supreme Court
    Black Panthers-The Black Panthers were part of the larger Black Power movement
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-Civil disobedience involves the refusal to obey laws that are immoral or unjust
    Cesar Chavez- he founded the organization that became the United Farm Workers

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 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

  • 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

    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

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    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

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    End of the Cold War

    OPEC -Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
    Sandra Day O’Connor-Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977- intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate.
    AIDS Epidemic- HIV/AIDS, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is considered by some authors a global pandemic.
    Star Wars-an anti-ballistic missile program that was to shoot down nuclear missiles in space

  • 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

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century