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His vision included reforms that would bring racial equality and ease conditions of poverty in the United States.
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The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union's response to the NATO; it was an alliacne between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European countries.
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This incident would escalate into the famous Montgomery bus boycott.
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This law allowed the government to construct over 40,000 miles of interstate highway.
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In Eisenhower's speech titled a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East," he outlined his new foreign policy doctrine.
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Governor Orval Faubus attempted to prevent nine African-American students from entering school by using the Arkansas national guard. President Eisenhower sent the military to safely escort the nine students into the school.
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This act put legal protections in place in an attempt to ensure that every eligible American citizen could vote.
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This is the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States.
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This act funded public education in the United States on all levels.
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This act regulated the internal machinations of labor unions within the United States.
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Alaska and Hawaii were the last two states to attain the status of statehood.
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It is speculated that JFK won the Presidency because of his appearance on-stage during the televised presidential debates.
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This act established federal inspection of local voter registration polls in an attempt to minimize discrimination against minority groups in voter registration.
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The sit-ins began when four African-American college students refused to leave a segregated lunch counter. The sit-ins escalated into hundreds of students who refused to leave segregated businesses in protest of their racist policies.
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This was a program created by Kennedy in an attempt to establish cooperation between Latin American and the United States.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military undertaking by the CIA that attempted to overthrow Castro's regime.
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He piloted the Freedom 7 spacecraft
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This court case states that it is unconstitutional for state officials to require the recitation of school prayers in public, government-funded schools.
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This Act authorized international tariff reductions.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a standoff between American and Soviet Union forces that occurred when American pilots discovered the presence of ballistic missiles in Cuba (a satellite of the Soviet Union).
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This is where his famous "I have a dream" speech took place.
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This treaty prohibited the testing of atomic weapons in space, underwater, or in the atmosphere.
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This act provided federal funding for community mental health centers and research facilities.
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He was shot in Dallas, Texas.
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This act authorized the formation of Community Action Agencies in order to better fight poverty.
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This act illegalized racial segregation in the United States.
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This act prevented Congress and State governments from withholding the right to vote from citizens to were unable to pay taxes.
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Controversial conflicts in the Gulf of Tonkin that led the United States' greater participation in the Vietnam war.
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These programs were put in place to help pay for medical expenses for disadvantaged demographics in the United States.
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The act abolished the National Origins Formula which was the immigration policy of the United States preceding the act.
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This Amendment provided details on the procedure on the takeover of office by the Vice President should the President die.
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These rights ensure that suspects are fully informed of their right to remain silent when they are arrested.
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It was put in place to manage and develop America's transportation infrastructure.
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The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs
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They soon spread to 159 cities through the US
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The riots began in response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn.
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He was on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island. His passenger died.