U.S History 1887-2008

By Darien.Willis
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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

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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

    Containment-the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits./Arms Race/Space Race-The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability./The union of associate republics- was socialist state that existed in 1922-1991./Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society./Domino Theory/event in 1950

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22 amendment

    The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) 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.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century