1. 1870s
Present
Gilded Age
1870s-1900
Progressive Era
1890s-1920s
WWI: US Involved
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
WWII
Cold War
Civil Rights Movement
1950s-1960s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
War on Terror 2001-Present

2. Gilded Age 1870s-1900 Growth of business Political machines corruption
Nativism
Immigration from Europe

3. Progressive Era 1890s-1920s Breaking up trusts (monopolies)
Food inspection laws
Rise of labor unions
President Teddy Roosevelt
Spanish American War

4. WWI: US Involved
German submarines sinking ships with American passengers on board
Zimmerman note
Trench warfare

5. Roaring Twenties 1920-1929 Flappers 19th Amendment – Women can vote
Prohibition
Harlem Renaissance
Increased consumer spending

6. Great Depression 1929-1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Unemployment
Dust Bowl
New Deal
Social Security
Growth of government

7. WWII 1941-1945 Attack on Pearl Harbor
Fighting Germans (Nazis) and Japanese
Women at work
Atomic bombs- Manhattan Project

8. Cold War 1947-1991 Competition between US and Soviet Union after WWII
Nuclear arms race
Space race
Domino theory
“Red Scare”

9. 1950s President Eisenhower Suburbs Highways Korean War GI Bill
Baby boom

10. 1960s President Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis President Lyndon Johnson
Great Society to help poor- Medicare and Medicaid
Vietnam War begins
Anti-war Protests

11. Civil Rights Movement 1950s-1960s
Martin Luther King Jr
Sit ins
Freedom rides
Civil Rights Act of 1964

12. 1970s Vietnam War ends President Nixon Watergate scandal Oil crisis
Détente (eased tensions) with Soviet Union and China
Iran Hostage Crisis

13. 1980s President Reagan Iran Contra Tax cuts Missile defense systems
Berlin Wall falls

14. 1990s Persian Gulf War –George HW Bush President Clinton
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Welfare reform

15. War on Terror 2001-Present Attack on 9/11 President George W. Bush
War in Afghanistan
War in Iraq
President Obama