US History 1877-2006

By Grace Stewart
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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 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

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    Containment

    United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence.
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    Arms Race/Space Race

    informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics).
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    Communism

    A political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
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    Domino Theory

    A Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.

  • Truman Doctrine

    PASSED: 1947
    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Amendment

    RATIFIED: 1947
    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    PASSED: 1948
    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturn Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine

    integrate into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Berlin Wall

    Built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Bay of Pig invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The U.S. stops the Soviets from using nuclear weapons on Cuba.

  • MLK "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington

  • JFK assassinated in DTX

  • 24th Amendment

    Ratified by South Dakota
    Abolishes the poll tax

  • 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

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy test for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • Tinker v. Des Moins

    Settled: February 24, 1969
    defined the 1st Amendment rights for students in the U.S. Public Schools.

  • 1st Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Ratified: March 3, 1971
    : moved the voting age from 21 y/o to 18 y/o

  • 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

    leads to Nixon's resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • 3 Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century