U.S. History 1877-2008

By gabriel.milagres
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

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    The Gilded 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)

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    Containment, Arms Race/Space Race, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communism, 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

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • 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

  • Gulf of Tonkin

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • medicare and medicaid establishded

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • Title IX

  • War Power Act

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair(1985-1987)

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)

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