U.S. History 1877-2008

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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

    The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America
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    The gilded Age

    In United States history, the Gilded Age was an era that occurred during the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Western United States
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    The Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. Progressive reformers were typically middle-class society women or Christian ministers
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    Imperialism

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    World War 1

    World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States
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    Great depression

    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

    Adolf hitler invades Poland starting the war
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    World War 2

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks pearl harbor causing the U.S to join the war
  • Battle of Midway

  • Invasion of Normandy

    The U.S and other allied nations land at the beach of Normandy
  • United Nations formation

    The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations
  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan

    The U.S drops the first atom bomb on Japan
  • , “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

    The U.S drops the second atom bomb causing Japan to surrender
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    Early cold war

    The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II
  • 22nd amendment

    he Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution limits to two the number of times a person is eligible for election to the office of President of the United States, and sets additional eligibility conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors
  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. 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 Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949
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    Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
  • Rosenbergs trial

    Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. ... They were executed in 1953
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    1952—63 years ago this week—the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. Operation Ivy was conducted on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands
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    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
  • USSR launches Sputnik

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • medicare established

    this is when medicare was established during the cold war
  • The Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined First Amendment rights of students in U.S. public schools
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    End of Cold War

    geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc
  • Pentagon Papers

    The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed
  • 26th amendment

    The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old
  • fall of Saigon

    The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975