U.S. HISTORY: 1817-2008

By ERICK.ROBERTS
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Recunstruction

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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 20's

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

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    Early Cold War

    1.)Containment
    2.)Arms Race/ Space Race
    3.)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4.)Communism
    5.)Domino Theory
    (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MCd-QM2hD6iAhMfkjzo1feaeuRuh9jceOp7tqtpuOz4/edit?usp=sharing)

  • United Nations Formed

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid Established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker vs Des Monies

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public School (Tinker Test is still used to this day)

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Paper Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Watergate Scandal, Which Leads To Nixon's Regisignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century