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US drops atomic bombs on Japan
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United Nations formed
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First Levittown
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Executive Orders 9980 & 9981
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Truman Doctrine
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The Cold War
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade
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NAO formed
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The Korean War
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2nd Red Scare / McCarthyism
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Dwight Eisenhower elected
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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The Civil Rights Movement
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Emmett Till murdered
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Federal Troops Sent to Little Rock, AK
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Federal Highway Act
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Space Race
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NASA established
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John F. Kennedy elected
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Freedom Rides
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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"Silent Spring" published
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"Feminine Mystigue" published
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Equal Pay Act
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President Kennedy assassinated
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Lyndon B. Johnson elected
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Birmingham Campaign
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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24th Amendment
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Economic Opportunity Act
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Civil Rights Act
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Malcolm X assasinated
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Selma Freedom March
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Griswold vs. Connecticut
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Immigration & Nationality Act
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Medicare/Medicaid
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Voting Rights Act
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The Vietnam War
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Black Panther Party formed
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Miranda vs. Arizona
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My Lai Massacre
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Robert Kennedy assassinated
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Richard Nixon elected president
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Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
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Stonewall Riots
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Woodstock Music Festival
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Kent State Massacre
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Environmental Protection Agency/Earth Day
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Clean Air Act
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26th Amendment
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Equal Rights Amendment approved in Congress
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SALT I Treaty
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Watergate Scandal
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Wounded Knee Conflict
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Roe vs. Wade
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Nixon resigns
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Jimmy Carter elected president
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Bakke vs. University of California
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Ronald Reagan elected president