US History 1887 - 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

    Caused by the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and many workers being laid off.
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    World War II

    World War II was caused by the Treaty of Versailles being violated by the Axis Powers; and the United States' involvement was due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1)Containment - a US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism
    2)space/arms race - a Cold War competition between the US & the USSR to develop aerospace & nuclear warfare capabilities
    3)USSR - a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922-1991
    4)Communism - a political theory where all items are owned by the government
    5)Domino theory - the fall of a noncommunist state to communism would cause the fall of noncommunist governments in nearby states
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • 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 Missile Crisis

    leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the 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
  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the 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.
  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

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

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century