U.S. History: 1877-2008

By kkumar2423
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    The Glided 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

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.
    2. Competition between the US and the USSR.
    3. Federal socialist state in Northern Eursia that existed from 1922-1991.
    4. system of gov where all property is public, people work and are given things by the gov. according to their needs.
    5. The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • Truman Doctrine

  • NATO established

  • Korean War Start

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War End

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invent the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    It was where United States and Soviet Union had a conflict where Soviet union was trying to put nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US was trying to stop them.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.

  • Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.
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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force was leaked.

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

    Communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.
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    1990s-21st Century