U.S History: 1887-2008

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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstuction

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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

    1- Containment: United States policy to prevent the spread of communism
    2-Arms race /Space race:arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare
    3- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:federal Socialist State in northern Eurasia
    4-Communism:all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their needs and abilities
    5-Domino theory:the theory that a political event in one country will affect other neighboring countries
  • Truman Doctrine

    US 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 ll
  • NATO established

  • Korean war

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg 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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    1990's-21'st Century

  • 22nd amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.