US HISTORY 1877-2008

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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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    WWI

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    Roaring 20's

  • The Union Soviet Socialist Republics

    A group of Soviets That didn't agree with what the original Soviets were trying to do with the government.
  • Communism

    Communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
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    Great Depression

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    WWII

  • Domino Theory

    The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states
  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Containment

    The act and the resisting of spreading communism.
  • 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

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H bomb detonated bu the US

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine

  • Arms Race/Space Race

    Space exploration emerged as a major area of rivalry which became known as the space race. A crisis resulted when the Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
  • USSR launches sputnik

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    End of Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century

  • 22nd Amendment

    The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again