U.S. History: 1877-2008

By GRACE.HOLMES
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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 20s

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    • Containment: many US leaders during this time wanted to "contain Communism" to keep it from spreading to other countries.
    • Arms Race/Space Race: a competition between the US and the USSR to have better ammo & to get to space first.
    • USSR: what came to be when Russia was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, until the 1990s.
    • Communism: economic system based on equality- no separation of gov. and business.
    • Domino Theory: theory that 1 political event will lead to similar ones in other countries.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries run by other Communist countries

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Plan to help European countries rebuild after WWII

  • NATO established

  • Korean War begins

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by United States

  • Korean War ends

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century