U.S History: 1887-2008

By Tucker.Abbott
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    Early American History

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    Civil War/Reeconstruction

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    The Gilded Age

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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    WWI

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    Roaring 20s

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    The Great Depression

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    WWII

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    Early Cold War

    Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

  • United Nations formed

  • 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

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Korean War

    The domino theory was a theory prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • U.S H-bomb detonation

  • Polio Vaccine

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    Vietnam War

  • Sputnik launching

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    End of Cold War

    The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the USSR and the US, to see who reached space first.
    The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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    1990s-21st Century