US History 1887-2008

By Dawson.wagnon
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

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    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

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy detailing aid and intervention in countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

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    Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs Trials

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the US

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (begins undeclared war in Vietnam)

  • Medicare and Medicaid Established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Supreme Court Case (Tinker v. Des Moines)

    Defined the 1st Amendment for students in US Public Schools

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment ratified (voting age changed from 21 to 18)

  • War Powers Act

    Limited Presidential capacity to send troops into combat without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marking 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-21 Century

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