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Early American History (1776-1860)
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Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)
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The Gilded Age (1877-1900)
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The Progressive Era (1890-1920)
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Imperialism (1898-1910)
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World War I (1914-1918)
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Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
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Great Depression (1929-1939)
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World War II (1939-1945)
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War (1945-1960)
Containment, Arms Race/Space Race, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communism, Domino Theory -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War (1954-1976)
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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
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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medicare and medicaid establishded
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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
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First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War (1970-1991)
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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Title IX
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War Power Act
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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981)
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair(1985-1987)
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1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)