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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
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Gilded Age 1870s-1900 Growth of business Political machines corruption
Nativism Immigration from Europe
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Progressive Era 1890s-1920s Breaking up trusts (monopolies)
Food inspection laws Rise of labor unions President Teddy Roosevelt Spanish American War
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WWI: US Involved German submarines sinking ships with American passengers on board Zimmerman note Trench warfare
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Roaring Twenties 1920-1929 Flappers 19th Amendment – Women can vote
Prohibition Harlem Renaissance Increased consumer spending
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Great Depression 1929-1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Unemployment Dust Bowl New Deal Social Security Growth of government
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WWII 1941-1945 Attack on Pearl Harbor
Fighting Germans (Nazis) and Japanese Women at work Atomic bombs- Manhattan Project
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Cold War 1947-1991 Competition between US and Soviet Union after WWII
Nuclear arms race Space race Domino theory “Red Scare”
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1950s President Eisenhower Suburbs Highways Korean War GI Bill
Baby boom
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1960s President Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis President Lyndon Johnson
Great Society to help poor- Medicare and Medicaid Vietnam War begins Anti-war Protests
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Civil Rights Movement 1950s-1960s
Martin Luther King Jr Sit ins Freedom rides Civil Rights Act of 1964
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1970s Vietnam War ends President Nixon Watergate scandal Oil crisis
Détente (eased tensions) with Soviet Union and China Iran Hostage Crisis
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1980s President Reagan Iran Contra Tax cuts Missile defense systems
Berlin Wall falls
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1990s Persian Gulf War –George HW Bush President Clinton
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Welfare reform
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War on Terror 2001-Present Attack on 9/11 President George W. Bush
War in Afghanistan War in Iraq President Obama
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