Timeline: U.S. History : 1887-2008 | Timetoast

Period: 1776 to 1860

Early American history
Period: 1860 to 1877

Civil / reconstruction
Period: 1877 to 1900

The gilded age
Period: 1890 to 1920

The progressive era
Period: 1898 to 1910

Imperialism
Period: 1914 to 1918

World war I
Period: 1920 to 1929

Roaring twenties
Period: 1929 to 1939

Great Depression
Period: 1939 to 1945

WorldwarII
Period: 1945 to 1945

United Nations formed
Period: 1945 to 1960

Early Cold War

Containment
Arms race / space race
The Union of Soviet socialist republics
Domino theory
Period: 1947 to 1947

22nd amendment

Prohibits anyone that has been elected president rwice from being elected agsin
Period: 1947 to 1947

Truman doctrine

U.s policy that gave military and economic aid to countries
Period: 1948 to 1948

Berlin airlift
Period: 1948 to 1948

Marshall plan

Program to help European countries rebuild
Period: 1949 to 1949

nato established
Period: 1950 to 1953

Korean war
Period: 1950 to 1970

Civil rights era
Period: 1951 to 1951

Rosenbergs trial
Period: 1952 to 1952

First H-bing detonated by the U.S
Period: 1954 to 1976

Vietnam war
Period: 1955 to 1955

Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine
Period: 1957 to 1957

Ussr launches Sputnik
Period: 1962 to 1962

Cuban missile crises
Period: 1964 to 1964

Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Period: 1965 to 1965

Medicare and Medicaid established
Period: 1968 to 1968

Tet offensive
Period: 1969 to 1969

Tinker v. Does moines

Defined the first admins smt rights for students in the U.S
Period: 1970 to 1991

End of Cold War
Period: 1971 to 1971

Pentagon papers leaked
Period: 1971 to 1971

26th amendment

Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
Period: 1973 to 1973

War powers act

Law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle
Period: 1975 to 1975

Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam war