Semester 2 Timeline

By Colin_Burke
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    Early American History

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    Cival 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

    Containment- The way America kept communism from growing in supporters.
    Arms Race/Space Race- A race to see how fast the US and USSR could make more powerful weapons or get to the moon first.
    The USSR- The Communist land where the Russian Federation now stands.
    Communism- The belief that the government owns everything and you are giving things for working.
    Domino Theory- The belief that if one country believed in communist the surrounding countries would too.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

    You can't run for office for a third term

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Nato Established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.
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    End of the cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18

  • 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

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    1990's twenty first century