US History 1887-2008

By jazzmin.sheckles
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    Early American History(1776-1860)

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    Civil War Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

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    World War I (1914-1918

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    An established comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • Communism

    A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned.

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

  • Containment

    A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

  • 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

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • Rosenbergs trial

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    Rosenbergs trial

  • Domino Theory

    The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.

  • 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 (1954-1976)

  • Arms Race/ Space Race

    Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight.

  • 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 Resoultion

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964:

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    ade 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 Estbalished

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    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 Cold War (1970-1991)

  • 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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Al- Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War

  • President Clinton’s Impeachment

    The impeachment of Bill Clinton occurred when Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998 for "high crimes and misdemeanors

  • Presidential Election of 2000

    The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000.

  • No Child Left Behind

    The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.