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Early American History
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age
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The Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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World War 1
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment- Strategic geopolitical foreign policy, keep communism away. Arms race/space race- The "race" to beat the USSR in production for nuclear weapons and to beat them getting to space. The union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Transcaucasion Federation Communism- Government ideology where the Government is in full power and the people get little to no freedoms. Domino Theory- if one country becomes communist, surrounding will follow -
22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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Korean War
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Sweatt Vs. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk Invests the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crises
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24th amendment
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Tet offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Kent State University Shooting
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End of Cold War
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Pentagon papers leaked
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26th amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years to 18 years -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War powers act
Law limiting the President's right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
Watergate scandle; Nixon's resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s- 21st Century