U.S. History: 1877-2008

By fynn.barretto
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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: preventing communism from spreading to countries that didn't already have it; Arms Race/Space Race: competition between the US and the Soviet Union to create better weapons and achieve greater advancements in space technology; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: the official name for the Soviet Union; Communism: a system of government/economics where everything is publicly owned; Domino Theory: idea that a political event in one country caused similar events in nearby countries

  • 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

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”; Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sweatt

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • First hydrogen bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment; Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Hernandez

  • Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation; Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Brown

  • Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall is built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech

  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    abolishes poll taxes

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Began undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined First Amendment rights for students in United States public schools; Supreme Court ruled in favor of the students

  • First man sets foot on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

  • Kent State University shooting

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment ratified

    Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age

  • Watergate Scandal (leads to Nixon's resignation)

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act passed

    Limits the president's power to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • 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