1877-2008

By jacob.peacock
  • Jan 1, 1111

    DEFENITIONS

    CONTAINMENT- Trying to keep a country from spreading its communist views.
    ARMS RACE- Race for the most powerful weapons
    THE SOVIET UNION-At one point a feared and major world power
    COMMUNISM-Where there is one supreme leader and everyone follows and shares.
    DOMINO THEORY-As more country's fall to communism more will follow.
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    Early american history

  • 14th amendment

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    Civil war/ Reconstruction

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    The gilded age

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    Imperialism

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    The progressive era

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    World war 1

  • 19th ammendment

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great depression

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    Early cold war

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    Berlin Airlift

    NATO bringing goods in to save berlin
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    United nations formed

    When the allies came together

  • Truman doctrine

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

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

    The group of allies that came together
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    Civil rights era

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    Korean war

    The war between communist north Korea and democratic south Korea

  • Rosenberg Trials

    Prosecution of spies

  • Hydrogen bomb dropped

    The bomb was dropped on japan
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    Vietnam war

  • Polio vaccine

    Jonas stalks creates the polio vaccine

  • Soviet launches sputnik

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    End of the cold war

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    1900s 21st century