U.S History 1877-2008

By estherk
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

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    civil was/reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    the gliden age (1877-1900)

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    the progressive era (1890-1920)

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    imperialism (1898-1910)

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    world war I (1914-1918)

  • Containment

    the geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union

  • the union of solvient socialist republics

    consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries

  • communism

    a political theory derived from Kari Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is owned and each

  • early cold war- big 5

    arms race/space race- sputnik: first artificial satellite to orbit earth launched by the soviet union in 1957 the us responded by creating

  • united nations formed

    the united nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations..

  • arms race/ space race

    competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability

  • truman doctrine

    the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Berlin Airlift

    During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control

  • NATO established

    The North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.

  • Domino Theory

    if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect

  • Korean War

    a war between North Korea and South Korea

  • Rosenbergs trial

    American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    The U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States

  • 1990-1991: Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

    The invasion of Kuwait led to a United Nations Security Council embargo and sanctions on Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition air and ground war

  • 22nd Amendment

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