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Gave veterans loans and education
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Made after WW2
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Anti-communism pledge. US will protect any country from communism.
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Quick, cheap houses which moved many americans into the suburbs
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Starts with his speech saying that he has proof of "communist spys", ends with him being removed as senator and eventually dieing.
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Gave aid to help europe rebuild after the war
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Red Scare intensifies
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States that there will be equal opprotunities and treatment for all army services reguardless of race
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Truman's plan.
Created many domestic reforms to the states -
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Claims to have a paper with 200+ names of spys
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Nixon declares that he has done nothing wrong
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Hight of the Red Scare
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After this point McCarthy lost credibility and eventually died
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States seperate schools are NOT equal
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Movie showing how rebellious the young generation is. It is the image of the Beat Generation
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Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat for a white man, leads to a boycott that lasts for over a year until the busses are desegregated
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Movie that shows how people who may have fought in WWII may find a regular life meaningless
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Nine black students attempt to go a high school in Little Rock, local police are forced to protect them, but the mob was too big and the federal guard was called in to protect them. After a while ALL schools in the city were closed for a year.
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Soviets got to space before the US
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Series of debates between Nixon and Khrushchev. First real time that the Us and Soviets have talked personally with eachother.
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Volunteer Program to help developing countries with issues. Usually to spread democrocy and stop communism.
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Yuri Gagarin
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Failed attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba.
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Rides in buses from the North to the Deep South to try and intergrate public places along the way.
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A concreate wall had been built in the seperating West and East Berlin. This is the litteral definition of the Iron Curtain
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John Glenn
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Nuclear missles found in Cuba supplied by the Soviet Union. Nearly resulted in Nuclear War but was stopped just before anything happened.
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200,000 people come to washington to push for civil rights. Marther Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech was given here.
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A black church in Birmingham was bombed, four girls were killed with many others injured.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with his death.
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Organized volunteers who worked in the poor areas of the US
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Prohibits descrimination based on race, color, religion, and orgin. Also gives the government the power to enforce desegregation.
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Gave the President the right to take any actions that he belives will help promote international peace in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)
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College students protest to say / write whatever they want in the school.
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Leader of the Nation of Islam Group
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Peaceful march turned violent. Televised showing police gasing and beating protesters.
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Provided insucreace to American senior citizens
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Made voting in the south easier and removed barriers made previously.
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Organized the building of 250,000 houses and $3 billion for development
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Vietcong invades many cities in South Vietnam. Although the US / South Vietnam won, it turned American opinion against the war.
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James Earl Ray was convicted as the killer
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Made the descrimination of selling, renting, and buying of housing illigal,
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Most iconic and memorable show of the counter-culture movement.
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Massive protest at the university resulting in 4 students being killed.
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Revealed that the goverment has been lying to the public about the war in Vietnam,
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Decided that trade talks, cultral extanges, and admission of China into the UN would begin.
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Agreement to not produce any more nukes and to reduce their nukes to only 200 per side
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Nixion's administration is caught spying and tampering with other opponents.
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Stated that abortion is legal
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North Vietnam takes the South Vietnam capital
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Taxed cars that were not energy efficient and deregulated prices of local oil and gas
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Took over US embassy because the US treated Shah for cancer.
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Carter responds by not allowing athlethes to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olimpics
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The mission was a failure because the helicopters crashed before it could even get to the embassy.
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Gained popularity after that.
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Was recently in a civil war, and a communist leader had been planted.
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Regan's administration sells weapons to Iran (which was embargo'd) and gave the money to the contras which was fighting the Nicaraguas
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Ordered Libyan gunboats to challege American ships sailing close to Libya
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Dramatically reduced the federal tax rates
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At this point, the Soviet Union has crumbled and communism in most of the world fell.
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Average price for a shock fell nearly 20%