US History 1887-2008

By AashirAqeel
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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- the prevention of communist spread
    Arms Race/Space Race- the competition between the USSR and the US
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- socialist state
    Communism- the ideology that focuses on equality not equity
    Domino Theory- a political event can effect countries around that one country.

  • 22nd Amendment Created

  • Truman Doctrine created

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. des Moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in US public schools
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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 y/o to 18 y/o.

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

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

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    1990s-21st Century