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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    World War I

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

    when the world fell down and people lost a lot of there money and could afford food
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    World War II

    was the most deadliest war to happen
  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: Stooping the Spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race: arms race between the two nations following World War II/Space Race was an competition between two Cold War rivals.
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
    Communism: philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal
    Domino Theory: belief that if one country falls to communism they will all fall to communism
  • 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 World War II
  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Vietnam War

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century