U.S History 1887-2008

By reggie144k

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • United Nations formed

  • Period: to

    Early cold war

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • 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 the United States Public Schools

  • 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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