U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Brekin O'Neall
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    Early American History

    American Revolution
    Civil War
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    Civil War/Reconstruction

    Lincoln wanted to fight to preserve the Union but eventually made the fight about slavery
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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

  • UN formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment - containing communism
    Arms Race/Space Race - trying to put a man on the moon, sputnik
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - the main source of communism
    Communism - no class, everything government owned
    Domino Theory - if one country fell to communism, the rest will

  • 22nd Admendment

    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 Arilift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO estblished

  • Korean War

    1950-1953
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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 the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • 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 the 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 President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • 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

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century