Period 3: 1899 to present flash-cards (write Period 3 > P3) 23 terms for full-credit

  •  1903-1914: Construction of Panama Canal
  • 1917-1918: World War I (American involvement)
  • 1919-1920: Red Scare
  • 1920: Nineteenth Amendment
  • 1920-1933: Prohibition
  • 1929-1939: Great Depression
  • 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • 1941-1945: World War II (American involvement)
  • 1945: Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • 1947: The Truman Doctrine is established
  • 1949-1991: The Cold War
  • 1948-1949: Berlin Airlift Crisis
  • 1949: NATO was formed
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
  • 1954: Brown vs. Board of Education
  • 1954-1975: Vietnam War
  • 1958: NASA is formed
  • 1965: The Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation
  • 1979: Iran hostage crisis
  • 1986: Iran-Contra Scandal
  • 1987: Reagan asks Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
  • 1991: Operation Desert Storm
  • 2001: September 11 terrorist attacks

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