US history 1877-2008

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    Early American History

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    Early American History (1776-1860)

    The rising history of America
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    Civil war

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

    The war between the south and north of the untied states
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    The gilded Age

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

    rise to important novels of social and political criticism
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    Progressive era

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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

    The era of making progress in the USA
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    Imperlasim

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

    The time of advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples
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    World War 1

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    World War I (1914-1918)

    The war that the whole world was involved.
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    Roaring twenties

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    Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

    New innovations that made life easier
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    Great depression

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

    When the stock market crash and the country went to depression
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    World war II

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    World War II (1939-1945)

    The second war that the world was involved in
  • Untied Nations formed

    The formation of union nations were made.
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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

    The war of who has more power
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    Early cold war

    Containment was a foreign policy of the United States of America, introduced at the start of the Cold War, aimed at stopping the spread of Communism and keeping it "contained" and isolated within its current borders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.The Arms Race refers to the efforts by both the Soviet Union and United States to increase, and advance, their arms. In particular, it was a race of nuclear weaponry that defined the cold war.
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries
    threatened by communism.
  • Berlin Airlift

    The air lift of berlin
  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.
  • Nato establised

    The establishment of NATO.
  • The Big 5

    They were a group of countries with a lot of power.
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    Civil rights era

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

    When civil right movement going on to end segration.
  • Rosenbergs trial

    The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians
  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being
    elected again.
  • Korean war

    The war where between the north and south of korea
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    United states denoted the first H bomb
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    Vietnam war

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

    Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War
  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    The vaccine for the deadly virus was invented.
  • USSR launches Sputnik

    The Ussr launches the space ship.
  • OPEC

    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • Kent State University shooting

    The Ohio national guard shot students at a protest.
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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

    The end of the war of cold
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    end of the cold war

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

    A scandal that people believed Nixon was involved of.
  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    Is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
  • Camp David Accords

    The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland.
  • Three Mile Island Disaster

    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
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    Iran Hostage Crisis

    The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized hostages.
  • AIDS Epidemic

    Was a breakout virus of a sexual transmission.
  • Star Wars

    A form of technology advancement to go outer space.
  • Sandra Day O’Connor

    Politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until her retirement in 2006.
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    Iran Contra Affair

    The Iran–Contra affair popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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    1990-21st century

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)

    This was when technology was advancing