Unit 8 and 9 By abby.kt 1860 Civil War/Reconstruction 1877 The Gilded Age 1890 The Progressive Era 1898 Imperialism 1914 World war 1 1920 Roaring 20s 1929 Great Depression 1939 World War II 1939 Early Cold War 1950 Civil Rights Era 1954 Vietnam War 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest 1957 Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba 1961 Berlin Wall Built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Medicare and Medicated established 1963 Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated 1969 First Man on the Moon 1970 End of The Cold War 1970 Kent State University shooting 1971 Pentagon Papers leaked 1974 Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's resignation 1975 Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war 1976 Early American history 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1979 Three Mile Island Disaster 1985 Iran Contra Affair 1990 1990s-21st Century