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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 I
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
Containment: A policy to limit communism to places where it existed.
Arms/Space Race: A competition to see which nation could get more weapons and explore space.
USSR: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a collection of small nation states, and the big nation Russia.
Communism: A system in which government controls property, enterprise and almost everything and it is meant to keep everyone equal.
Domino Theory: If one nation falls to communism, the rest will follow. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO is Established
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Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
- Great Society: a plan/goal set by LBJ to end poverty and discrimination in the US.
- Thurgood Marshall: The first African-American supreme court Justice.
- Black Panthers: a group/party that advocated black power and for the development of black identity.
- Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: A form of protest in which the demonstrates did not use violence.
- Cesar Chavez: an American labor leader who advocated for the end of discrimination against Mexican-Americans.
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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 of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents 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 Crisis
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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 -
24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax
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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 the Cold War
- OPEC: was a coalition of petroleum exporting countries. They used this as a political weapon.
- Sandra Day O’Connor: first female supreme court justice. Appointed by Reagan
- Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: was passed by the federal gov. to encourage banks to aid all people.
- AIDS Epidemic: was an infectious disease that ravaged the country. There was no cure and the gov. played it down.
- Star Wars: was a defense system that was supposed to protect the US from ballistic missiles.
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to 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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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century