US History 1887-2998 By zaviyan.tharwani Period: 1776 to 1860 Early American History 1776-1860 Period: 1860 to 1877 Civil War/Reconstruction 1860-1877 Period: 1877 to 1900 The Gilded Age 1877-1900 Period: 1890 to 1920 The Progressive Era 1890-1920 Period: 1898 to 1910 Imperialism 1898-1910 Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 1914-1918 Period: 1920 to 1929 Roaring Twenties 1920-1929 Period: 1929 to 1939 Great Depression 1929-1939 Period: 1939 to 1945 WW2 1939-1945 1945 United Nations formed Period: 1945 to 1960 Early Cold War 1945-1960 1947 Truman Doctrine 1948 Marshall Plan 1948 Berlin Airlift 1949 NATO Established 1950 Sweatt v Painter Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1950 to 1970 Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 1951 Rosenbergs Trial 1952 Brown v Board of Education 1952 First H-Bomb detonated by the US 1954 Hernandez V Texas Period: 1954 to 1976 Vietnam War 1954-1976 1955 Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957 USSR Launched Sputnik 1957 Little Rock Nine integared into an all white school 1961 Bay of pigs invasion in Cuba 1961 Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 24th Amendment 1963 Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" at the March on Washington 1963 John f. kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX 1964 Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution 1964 Civil Rights Acts of 1964 1965 Medicare and Medicaid established 1965 Medicare and Medicaid established 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968 1969 First man on the moon 1969 Title IX 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines 1970 Kent State University shooting Period: 1970 to 1991 End of the Cold war 1970-1991 1971 26th ammendment 1971 Pentagon Papers Leaked 1973 War Powers Act 1974 Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation 1975 Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1979 Three Mile Island Disaster 1985 Iran Contra Affair Period: 1990 to 2008 1990s-21st Century 1990-2008