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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 1
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment - Policy used by US to stop spread of communism.
Arms Race/Space Race - Race to see what country had the best resources.
The USSR - Organization for countries who use communism.
Communism - a political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid.
Domino Theory - theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
22nd Amendement
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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Korean War
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Sweatt Vs. 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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Rosenberg's Trial
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First H-Bomb Detonated by the US
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Hernandez Vs. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka
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Jonas Salk Invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott After Rosa Parks' Arrest
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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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 Missile 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
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Civil Rights Act
Prohibited the discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
24th Amendment
Removed poll taxes in order to vote. -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act
It offered African Americans a way to get around the barriers at the state and local levels that had prevented them from exercising their 15th Amendment right to vote. -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is Assassinated
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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 vs. Des Moines
It was decided that school officials could not prohibit only on the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning. -
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 President's right to send troop to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate Scandal
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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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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century