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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 20s
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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-It was a strategy used to keep communism out of the USA.
Arms Race/Space Race- A competition to see who could posses more weapons and to see who could get to the moon first after sputnik.
Domino Theory- If one country turns communist the rest might follow.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The USSR was created, it is a communist country.
Communism- The equal distribution of land and money however the government controls all. -
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 established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Civil Rights Era
Great Society- President Lyndon B. Johnson with ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment.
Thurgood Marshall- the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
Black Panthers- It was a revolutionary organization of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
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Civil Rights Era
Cesar Chavez- labor leader community organizer businessman -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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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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24th Amendment:
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Tet Offensive
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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
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End of the Cold War
OPEC- They deal with oil and petroleum
Sandra Day O’Connor- first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.
AIDS Epidemic-37.9 million people are infected with HIV globally
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Kent State University shooting
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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
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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