U.S. History 1877-Present Day

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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 II

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    Big 5
    1 Military strategy to stop enemy expansion. Best known to prevent the spread of communism abroad
    2 An informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability
    3 A federal socialist state in (Russia) that existed until 1991
    4 A system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actually being owned by the Gov.
    5 The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
  • 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

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO Established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by the US

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century

    Containment:
    Arms Race/Space Race:
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
    Communism:
    Domino Theory: