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Early American History
Bill of Rights -
The Declaration of Independence
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Constitution Written
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Bill of Rights Ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment -
Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the West. -
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery -
14th Amendment
Citizenship & Due Process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
Voting for all male citizens. -
Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed business monopolies -
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The Progressive Era
Pure Food & Drug Act -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized segregation, established "equal, but separate" -
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
18th Amendment / Volstead Act -
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Great Depression
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Farm Security Act (FSA)
National Industrial Security Act (NIRA)
Social Security Administration (SSA) -
Adolf Hitler Invades Poland, starting WWII
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World War II
Island Hopping - US strategy to reclaiming the Pacific from Japan
Liberation of Concentration Camps - Holocaust prisoners released
Dwight Eisenhower - 5 star General--Europe
Douglas MacArthur - 5 star General--Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz - Fleet Admiral of the US Navy
Navajo Code Talkers - Secret Code
Tuskegee Airmen - Group of African-American Pilots
Flying Tigers - US volunteer pilots for China
The Manhattan Project - Build the Nuclear Bomb
Rosie the Riveter - Inspirational figure -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII -
G.I. Bill
Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits. -
"D-Day" -Invasion of Normandy
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment - Preventing the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race - Competitions between USSR and the US
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - The Communist Countries
Communism - All people are of equal stature. Totalitarian Leaders
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The Atomic Bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan
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The Atomic Bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II
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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. -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO Established
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Civil Rights Era
Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb Detonated By The United States
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Vietnam War
War Powers Act -
Jonas Salk Invents The Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
Authorized the building of a national highway system. -
USSR Launches Sputnik
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End of the Cold War
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1990s-21st Century