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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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Neutrality Acts
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World War II
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Lend-Lease Act
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Ammendment
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after WW2 -
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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Hernandez vs. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Brown vs Board
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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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Yates vs. US
First Amendment protected radical and revolutionary speech, even by Communists unless it was a clear and present danger to the safety of the country -
Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, OH-pek) is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries. Founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela), it has since 1965 been headquartered in Vienna, Austria, although Austria is not an OPEC member state -
Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Mapp vs. Ohio
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th amendment
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Baker vs. Carr
Court established the principle of "one man, one vote," meaning that election districts would have to be redrawn to provide equal representation for all a state's citizens. -
Engel vs. Vitale
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gideon vs. Wainwright
required state courts provide counsel for indigent defendants -
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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Escobedo vs. Illinois
Required the police to inform an arrested person of his or her right to remain silent -
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
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Griswold vs. Connecticut
citing the right to privacy, a state could not prohibit the use of contraceptives by adults(laid the foundation for later cases on abortion) -
Medicare and Medicaid established
Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people -
Voting Right Acts of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Miranda vs, Arizona
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Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
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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Tinker vs. Des moines
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End of the Cold War
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Kent State University shooting
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Pentagon papers leaked
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed. -
26th Amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
Title IX
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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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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops entered Saigon as the last Americans evacuated the city. The surrender of South Vietnam ended the decades-long war and signaled the reunification of North and South Vietnam. The country had been divided in 1954. -
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 12 U.S.C. § 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods -
Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Star Wars
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AIDS Epidemic
The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. -
Sandra Day O’Connor
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century