U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Xander.Fischer
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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)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    Containment-Containing the spread of Communism
    Arms Race/Space Race-Race to have the biggest weapons and to get to space.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-The USSR Russian communist party
    Communism-Everyone works together for the commonwealth.
    Domino Theory-Once an event occurs people will follow.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    <i>Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.<i>

  • 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 (1950-1970)

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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)

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

  • 1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • 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

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established (1965)

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive (1968)

  • 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • 1969: First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • Pentagon Papers leaked (1971)

  • 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 (1975)

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)