History timeline By jeremiah maas Period: 1776 to 1860 early american history Period: 1860 to 1877 civil war/ reconstruction Period: 1877 to 1900 the gilded age Period: 1890 to 1920 the progressive era Period: 1898 to 1910 imperialism Period: 1914 to 1918 world war 1 Period: 1920 to 1929 roaring twenties Period: 1929 to 1939 great depression Period: 1939 to 1945 world war ll 1945 United nations are formed Period: 1945 to 1960 early cold war 1948 berlin airlift 1949 NATO established Period: 1950 to 1970 civil rights era Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean war 1951 rosenburgs trial 1952 First H bomb detonated by united states Period: 1954 to 1976 Vietnam war 1955 jonas salk invent the polio vaccine 1957 USSR launches sputnik 1960 Opec 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1964 Gulf of tonkin revolution 1965 medicare and medicaid established 1968 tet offensive 1970 Kent State University shooting Period: 1970 to 1991 end of cold war 1971 pentagon papers leaked 1973 war powers act 1974 Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation 1975 Fall of saigon 1977 Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 Three Mile Island Disaster Period: 1979 to 1981 Iran Hostage Crisis Period: 1985 to 1987 Iran Contra Affair Period: 1990 to 2008 1990s-21st century 2018 Aids epidemic