| A | B |
|---|
| 1877 | Reconstruction Ends start of Gilded AGe |
| 1898 | Age of Imperialism and the Spanish American War |
| 1914-1918 | WWI |
| 1929 | Start of the Great Depression |
| 1939-1945 | WWII |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, America enters WWII |
| 1945 | End of WWII |
| 1945-1991 | The Cold War |
| 1948-1949 | The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift |
| 1950-1953 | The Korean War |
| 1954 | Brown vs. Board of Education segregation ends in the United States |
| 1957 | Sputnik (1st man-made object placed in space) Russian satellite |
| 1961 | Bay of Pigs Invasion, Berlin Wall built |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1954-1968 | Civil Rights Movement |
| 1968 | Escalation of Vietnam War under Pres. LBJ |
| 1969 | Apollo mission, 1st man of the Moon |
| 1974 | President Nixon resigns over Watergate Scandal and Coverup |
| 1979 | Iranian Hostage Crisis |
| 1991 | Cold War Ends, Soviet Union Collapses, 1st Gulf War |
| 2001 | Terrorist Attack on Twin Towers, Pentagon, start of War of Terror |
| 2003 | 2nd Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| 2008 | Election of Barrack Obama |
