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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)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- ussr consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries and was the US's biggest enemy -
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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)
arms race/space race- an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability -
United Nations formed
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Early Cold War (1945-1960)
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
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)
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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 Resolution
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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 -
24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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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
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 (1970-1991)
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)