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baby boom
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GI Bill of Rights
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containment
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truman doctrine
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HUAC hearings
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McCarthyism
On December 2, 1954, the United States Senate voted 67 to 22 to condemn McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute". -
moderate Republicans
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Dien Bien Phu
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Brown v Board of Education
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Montgomery bus boycott
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Federal Aid Highway Act
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SCLC
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counterculture
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founding
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United Farm Workers
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Great Society
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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affirmative action
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Black Power movement
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Tet offensive
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Stonewall uprising
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silent majority address by Nixon
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Watergate
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Roe v Wade
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perestroika + glasnost
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Iran-Contra
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Desert Storm