U.S History 1887-2008

By Ethan.Maldonado
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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
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • 22nd amendment went into effect

    The Twenty-second Amendment 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.

  • 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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

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    1990s-21st Century