U.S. History 1877-2008

By Payton.barnes
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    Early American History

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    civil War construction

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    The Gilded Age

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    The ProgressEra

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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

    1) Containment=the action of keeping something harmful under control
    2) Arms Race/Space Race=a race
    3) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics=In post-revolutionary Russia
    4) Communism=political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war
    5) Domino Theory=if one thing happens other this will start happening because of it

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

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    Civil rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century