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Chicago Convention
A meeting that established the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a United Nations agency in charge of coordinating and regulating international air travel -
Truman Doctrine
A United States principle that establish that the United States would support a democratic nation under threat from an internal or external authoritarian force -
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McCarthyism
A series of investigations and hearings to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government -
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Korean War
A fight between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953 surrounding the spread of communism -
Brown v. Board of Education
A supreme court case that ruled for the desegregation of all schools -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Engagement that led to the supreme court’s ruling that bus segregation violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment -
Sputnik
The first artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union, causing public chaos -
March on Washington
Approximately 250,000 people marched as a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans -
JFK Assassination
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Civil Rights Act
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
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Tet Offensive
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War -
MLK Assassination
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RFK Assassination
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Moon Landing
America’s landing of Apollo 11 -
Watergate Break-in
A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington carried out under the direction of White House employees -
Roe v. Wade
A supreme court case that ruled that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Iranian students in Tehran seized the U.S. Embassy and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days