U.S. History 1877-2008

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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 1

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    Roaring twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War 2

  • United nations Airlines

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    Early cold war

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO Established

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    CIvil rights era

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H- Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa's park 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

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

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the cold war

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • watergate scandal

    which leads to Nixons resignation
  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war

  • Camp David accords

  • Three Mile island disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's - 21st century