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addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
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President Herbert Hoover is elected
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sudden drop in stocks makes an impossible comeback, costing many people everything
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected
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evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt becomes First Lady
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Rosie the Riveter image first used
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Cold War begins
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
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John F. Kennedy elected
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President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
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The Feminine Mystique published
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Bull Connor uses firehoses
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Griswold vs. CT
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Malcom X killed
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NOW formed
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Nixon revised Philadelphia plan implemented
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Richard Nixon is elected
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MLK killed
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music festival that attracted 400,000 people
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Vietnam draft begins
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the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War
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Title IX passed
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ERA sent to states for ratification
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Roe vs. Wade
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Richard Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal
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Ronald Reagan is elected
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first Woman Supreme Court Justice
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Geraldine Ferraro runs for VP
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Cold War ends, Gorbachev & glastnost
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Bill Clinton elected
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After being charged with lying under oath to a grand jury, President Clinton is impeached
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result of being struck by two jet airliners hijacked by 10 terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda
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Barack Obama is elected
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Hillary Clinton runs for VP
