U.S. History: 1877-2008

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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

  • The Establishment of the NAACP

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    World War 1

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Civil Rights for Native Americans

    National Indian Education Associate was formed to fight for Native American rights in public and higher education.
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    Great Depression

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    World War ll

  • United Nations formed

  • Early Cold War-Big 5

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    Early Cold War

  • Arms Race/ Space Race

    A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
  • Containment

    Keeping something from spreading communism
  • 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.
  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after WW II
  • Berlin Airlift

  • Desegregation of the Armed Forces by President Truman

  • NATO Established

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European countries.
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
  • Domino Theory

    If one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg's Trial

    Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project Spies.
  • First H-bomb detonated by the U.S.

    The United Sates detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon.
  • Hernandez vs. Texas

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    American medical researcher Dr.Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against polio.
  • USSR launches Sputnik

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. This began the Space Race wit the U.S.
  • Civil Rights for Latin Americans

    Cesar Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association along with Dolores Huerta.
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)

  • AIM

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    End of Cold War

  • The Watergate Scandal

    Five men broke into offices of the Democratic National Committee, which were held at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.
  • The Clean Water Act

    Limited the amount of sewage and other pollutants flowing into the waterways.
  • The War Under Nixon

    Division about the war, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and violence at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 led to the election of Republican Richard Nixon.
  • Endangered Species Act

  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

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    1990s-21st Century

  • Election of Barack Obama

    The first black president of the United States
  • Election of Kamala Harris

    The African American, and the first Asian-American female as vice president.