U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Hungnguyen
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • 13th Amendment

    abolished slavery

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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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

    1-Containment
    2-Arms Race/Space Race
    3-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4-Communism
    5-Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Watergate Scandal

    leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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    1990s-21st Century