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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 progessive era
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imperialism
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world war 1
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roaring twenties
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world war 2
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united nations formed
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early cold war
containment-Stop spread of communism arms and race/ space-a race between hostile nations to accumulate or develop weapons union of soviet socialist republics- a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia communism-a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society domino theory-20th Century Foreign Policy theory, promoted by government of US, speculated if one land -
truman doctrine
policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatned by communism -
berlin airlift
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marshall plan
program to help european countries rebuild after after world war 11 -
nato established
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korean war
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civil rights era
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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
rosenbergs trials
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
22 admendment
prohibts anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
first h- bomb denotated by the united states
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vietnam war
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Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
jonas salk invents 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 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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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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24 amendment
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Gulf of tonkin resolution
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Voting Rights Act of 1965:
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Tet Offensive
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First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the first ammendment 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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26 amendment
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Title IX
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war power 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 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
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end of cold war/ big five
OPEC-The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Sandra Day O’Connor-Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings
AIDS Epidemic-eported a small grouping of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Star Wars (NOT the movies)- U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks -
big five
great society- domestic program that federally sponsored social welfare programs.
thurgood marshall- American lawyer and civil rights activist
black panthers- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization
non violent protesters- they don't harm or hurt anyone it's just peaceful ptotest
ceaser chavez- became the United Farm Workers, and he used nonviolent tactics to gain union contracts with California vineyard owners.