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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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World War II
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment: Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
Arms Race: arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union
USSR: Soviet Union
Communism: In a Communist system, individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things.
Domino Theory: the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events -
22nd Amendment
The 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
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NATO established
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Korean War 1950 - 1953
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Sweatt v. 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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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by United States
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Hernandez vs Texas.
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment. -
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Vietnam War
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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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24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax. -
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
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam. -
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 opportunities basis. -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters. -
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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Tinker v Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States public schools. -
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old. -
Title IX
Protects people from discrimination based on gender in the education programs. -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional Approval. -
Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War.
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1990s-21st Century