U.S History

By Steve.Lowden

  • Communism

    society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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    Civil War/ American 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 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    A group of countries that turned communist.
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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Containment

    Was 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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

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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”
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Domino Theory

    The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

  • 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

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    Space Race

    competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

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    End Of The Cold War Big Five

    Opec-ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure efficiency.
    Sandra Day O’Connor-she also helped inspire a generation of women to pursue careers in law
    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-requires the Federal Reserve and to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business.
    AIDS Epidemic- A global pandemic that caused fear in many pepole.
    Star Wars-an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system

  • 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

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    Civil Right Big FiveGreat Society-a domestic program in the administration of President LBJ that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

    Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court on which he served as Associate Justice
    Black Panthers-was a political organization to challenge police brutality against the African American community
    Non Violent Protest professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government.
    Cesar Chavez-his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights 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

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

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965:

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man On The Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines:

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

  • Kent State University

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    End Of The Cold War

  • 26th Amendment:

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): begins undeclared war in Vietnam
    War Powers Act (1973): law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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    Early American History

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st century