U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Maryam Dianka
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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 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

    1-containment
    2-Arms Race/Space race
    3.The union of soviet socialist Republics
    4.Communism
    5.Domino Theory

  • 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 2

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

    Great Society
    Thurgood Marshall
    Black Panthers
    Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience
    Cesar Chavez

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents the polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act 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

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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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

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

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    1990s-21st Century