Timeline

By devin.a.sanders
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    Early american history

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    Civil war

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    Guilded age

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    Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

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    WW1

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    Roaring 20s

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    Great dpression

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    WW2

  • UN Formed

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Ammendment

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    Early Cold war

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

  • Marshall plan

    Program to help European countries after WW2

  • Korean War

  • Rosenberg trial

  • First H bomb detonated by US

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    Civil rights movement

  • Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine

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    Vietnam War

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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    End of cold war

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal,

    leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-2000's