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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
1) Containment
2)Arms Race/ Space Race
3)The Union Soviet Socialist Republics
4) Communism
5)Domino Theory -
Truman Doctrine
U.S policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who was has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2 -
NATO established
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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 the United States
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Korean War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment -
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Vietnam War
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Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Park's arrest
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USSR launches Spuntik
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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 Missle Crisis
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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 -
24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
Civil Rights Act
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assacinated
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Civil Rights Act
Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
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 -
Kent State University Shooting
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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 education programs -
War Powers Act
Law limited the Presidents 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 the end of the Vietnam war
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Camp David Accords
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Three mile island disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran contra affair
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1990s-21st Century