U.S. History: 1887-2008

By grayson.smith
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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 1

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    Roaring Twenties

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    The Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: Idea of preventing the spread of communism during the cold war
    Arms Race/Space Race: Competitions between US and USSR to prove who was superior.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: The Union of Communist states formed after WW2.
    Communism: a classless system where their is only one working class. Often clashed with capitalist ideas
    Domino Theory: A theory that states if one nation falls, many more will as a result. This supported containment during cold war.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenburgs Trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    Limited terms of a president to 2 terms

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker vs Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    changed voting age of US citizens from 21 to 18

  • War Powers Act

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

  • Watergate Scandal

    Leads to Nixon's resign

  • Fall of Saigon, (Ends Vietnam War)

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran-Contra affair

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    1990s - 21st Century