US History: 1887-2008

By gavin.borgmann
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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

    1. Containment
    2. Arms Race/Space race
    3. USSR
    4. Communism
    5. Domino theory

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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 by the United States

  • Korean War

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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 Veitnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker V. Des Moines

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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    End of Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • 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