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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: trying to keep it in one place
Arms Race/Space Race: US and USSR had a race to the moon and had a race to make the most destructive thing possible
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: it the USSR but different s
Communism: everyone has the same amount of money no class thing
Domino Theory: basically if one thing happens another thing happens....etc. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
Great Society: lead by president b Johnson goals to end poverty and other things
Thurgood Marshall: American lawyers and civil rights activist
Black Panthers: a group of brown men
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: protesting non-violently
Cesar Chavez: American lobar leader and civil rights activist -
Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Korean War
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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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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
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Civil Rights Act
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
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Civil Rights Act
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
OPEC: intergovernmental organization of 13 countries
Sandra Day O’Connor is an attorney and politician and the first women on supreme
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is to help banks and kind of the middle and low classes
AIDS Epidemic: people were wilding' out because they didn't know how it gets people
Star Wars (NOT the movies):Reagan proposed to have an strategic Defense Initiative for ant missile -
Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
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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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