U.S. history: 1877-2008

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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 I

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great depression

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    World war II

  • United nations formed

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    Early cold war

    Containment-
    Arms race/Space race-
    The union of soviet socialist republicans-
    Communism-
    Domino theory-
  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil rights era

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H bomb detonated by the United States

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    vietnam war

  • Jonas Salk invents Polio vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution

    begins undeclared was in Vietnam
  • Medicare and medicaid establishment

  • Tet offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States public schools
  • Kent state university shooting

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    End of cold war

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.
  • War powers act

    Law limited the presidents rights to send troops to battle without congressional approval.
  • Watergate scandal

    lead to nixon's resignation
  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam war

  • Camp David accords

  • Three miles island disaster

  • Iran hostage crisis

  • Iran contra affair

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    1990's - 21st century