U.S. History: 1877-2008

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    Early American History

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • United Nations formed

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has
    been elected president twice from being
    elected again
  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Marshall Plan

    a program to help
    European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Period: to

    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century