U.S. History, 1877-2008

By Alan.Cook
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    Early American History

  • communism

    There is a dictator that controls the whole country
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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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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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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

  • 22nd Ammendment

    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
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    Containment

    the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Domino Theory

    national security council
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    Arms Race/Space Race

    a race to see who can make the better weapons

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • 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

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    End of the Cold War

    The end of the Cold War, signified by the breakdown of the Berlin War (1989), and the disintegration of the USSR (1991), signified the end of Communism in much of the world, and the end of the Cold War between Communism and Free World Capitalism

  • Pentagon Papers 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

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    1990's-21st Century