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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)
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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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Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)
1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
1969: First Man on the Moon -
Sweatt v. Painter:
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War (1954-1976)
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1965: Medicare and Medicaid established
1968: Tet Offensive
1971: Pentagon Papers leaked
1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
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 -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker v. Des Moines
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End of the Cold War (1970-1991)
1970: Kent State University shooting
1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
1978: Camp David Accords
1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
1979: Three Mile Island Disaster
1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair -
26th Amendment
Passed by Congress March 23, 1971,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
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1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)