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1948 BCE
Marshall plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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Early American History
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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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
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Early Cold War
Containment: Prevent spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race: Nuclear race, moon race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Radical leftist revolutionaries overthrew Russia's Czar Nicholas II
Communism: Western democracies had always been hostile to the idea of a communist state.
Domino Theory: Quickly lead to communist takeover -
United Nations formed
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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End of the Cold War
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1990s-21st Century