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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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imperialism
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WORLD WAR 1
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roaring twenties
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great depression
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WORLD WAR 2
in 1945 The United Nations Formed -
Big five civil rights
Great society-a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
Thurgood Marshall-Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement, he also had a profound contribution to the NAACP and his legacy lives on in the pursuit of racial justice
Black panther- party for self defense
non violent protests- protests that dont include harming anyone
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early cold war
containment- action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
arms/space race-race between U.S and russia to see which country could accomplish the best event in space
Soviet union- The soviet union was basically a country with communists that wanted to control everyone
domino theory-political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
1948 berlin airlift
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Truman and marshall 1947-1948
Truman doctrine and marshall plan was introduced -
sweatt. v. painter
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civil rights era
one year earlier in 1949 the NATO orginization was established
1950-1953 In these dates the korean war was occuring
1951- Rosenburgs trials
1952- First H bomb detonated by the United States
1955- Jonas salk invented the polio vaccine
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Brown Vs. Board of education Topeka
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Hernandez vs. Texas
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vietnam war
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Rosa park arrest on bus boycott
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little rock 9
Black students challenged racial segregation -
OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 by five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela -
Bay of pigs invasion
Fidel castro had planned to throw the cuban leader out and take over but did not succeed -
Berlin wall
Berlin wall was built to seperate east and west berlin from each other -
Cuban missile crisis
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"I have a dream"
Martin Luther King Jr, made a speech at the washington monument that made a impact on racial injustice and history itself -
JFK assasinated
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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 -
voting rights act of 1965
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medicare and medicaid esablished
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Tet offensive
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MLK Asassination
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civil rights act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker. v. Des moines
Defined the first amendment right for the students in public school in the United States. In 1969 the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision in favor of the students. The high court agreed that students' free rights should be protected and said, "Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the school house gates." -
First man to land on the moon
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Aids epidemic
Aids was spreading everywhere and no one knew what it was from and it just kept on spreading killing thousands to millions of people -
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, marks end of vietnam war
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted in 1977, requires the Federal Reserve and other federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods -
Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three mile island disaster
The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public. -
Sandra Day O'connor
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired attorney and politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was the first woman nominated and confirmed -
Star Wars cold war edition
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). -
Iran Contra affair
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1990's-21ST century
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24th amendment
abolish taxes or fees on voting