US History 1887-2008

By Peyton.Garbett
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    Early American Hisory

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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 1

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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 US trying to stop the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- The race tp get high grade weapons between US and USSR
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Communist country in cold war
    Communism- Complete control over the people with a dictator
    Domino Theory- The idea that one country will have effects on the ones around it

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Golf of tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicade Established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved voting from 21 to 18

  • War Powers Act

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

  • Wategate Scandal, which leads to nixons resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of vietnam war

  • Camp Dvid Accords

  • Iran Hostage crisis begin

  • Three mile island distastor

  • Iran hstage crisis ends

  • Iran Contra affair start

  • Iran contra affair end

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    1990s-21st Century