U.S. History 1877-2008

By jake.stephens
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/ Reconctruction

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    The Gilded Age

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    Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    World War 1

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    Roaring 20's

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

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

  • 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

  • Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • End of Korean War

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    Vietnam

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    End of Cold War

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    1990's-21st Century