U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Omarion.Johnson

  • United States formed

  • Period: to

    Early Cold War

    *Containment
    *Arms Race/Space Race
    *The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    *Communism
    *Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

    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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after WWII

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

  • Rosenburgs Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Kent State University Shooting

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's resignation

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair