U.S. History 1877-2008 By Angel Bustos 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 2 1945 United nations Airlines Period: 1945 to 1960 Early cold war 1948 Berlin Airlift 1949 NATO Established Period: 1950 to 1970 CIvil rights era 1951 Rosenberg Trials 1952 First H- Bomb detonated by the United States 1953 Korean War Period: 1954 to 1976 Vietnam War 1955 Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa's park arrest 1957 USSR Launches Sputnik 1957 Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba 1961 Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX 1965 Medicare and Medicaid established 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated 1969 First Man on the Moon 1970 Kent State University shooting Period: 1970 to 1991 End of the cold war 1971 Pentagon Papers Leaked 1974 watergate scandal which leads to Nixons resignation 1975 Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war 1978 Camp David accords 1979 Three Mile island disaster 1981 Iran Hostage Crisis 1987 Iran Contra Affair Period: 1990 to 2008 1990's - 21st century