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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. He was president during WWII and Parts of the Korian war.
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The second World war ended. Germany was split into 4 diferent parts france britan The US and The Soviet Union.
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With Japan surenduring and looking weak the vieatnamise wish to be there own leaders once more. They were aided in this by the US.
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The Truman doctorin was created to provid suport for Greses and turkey against comunisim. This was a grant of 400 million dolars and it would go to there governemnts and militarys.
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The cold war was a conflict between the US and The Soviet Union. The conflict was started when the US made a claim to stop the expansion of Comunisim. The Soviet Union saw this as a declaration of war.
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Truman Feared the expasion of comunisim so he created the Marshal Plan. The Marshal Plan gave 13 Billion in forign aid to contries at the threat of comunisim.
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The Soviet Union blocked all roads to berlin. The Allies had to air lift supplies in to keep berlin alive.
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The North Atlanitc Treaty Orginization was created in order to prevent the expantion of comunisim and to coalition in order to not go into ww3. There was a serious threat that there woukld be an expasioary dictator after ww2 and so they decided to make NATO.
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The Korian War was between North Koria and South Koria (obviously). North Koria was hevily supported by China and The Soviet Union. South Koria was Supported by the UN.
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Dewight D Eisenhouer was the 34th president of the United States of America. Eisenhouer was a important General during WW2.
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it was a period of time when Earl Warren was a supream court justice. It was a time of civil rights expasion and the embeterment of the country.
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Brown V. Board of Education was a historic bill that made egregation in schools illigal. This was faced with large backlash but all in all it was a move in the right direction.
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These accords drew a line between north and south vietnam. This line overlines the 17th paralell.
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The Vietnam War was a ware between north and south Vietnam. The north was comunist while the south was anti comunist. noth suportid by USSR south by USA.
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When a African american woman was told to surrender her seat for a white man she was arrested. This enacted a boycott that lasted for a year at least.
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Counterculture movement is when people not wanting to conform with traditional values. This started when they were forced to do things they did not want like waring certine clothes or drinking.
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A failed military landing in south western cuba. It was funded and instigated by the US government against Fidel Castro.
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The Berlin Wall was a wall constructed by the soviets. It seperated east and west berlin after ww2.
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The cuban missle crisis was one of if not the clossest to fighting we got in the cold war. In 1962 the US demanded that the USSR stoped building missile bases in cuba.
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The Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. It Banned nuclear weapons testing ni the atmosphereouter space and under water.
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The Civil Rights act of 1964 was a bill that made discrimination illigal. It was signed into law by lyndon B Johnson in honer of JFK.
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When the us started to intervien in the war they blocaded the Tonkin Gulf with two ships. This made tensins rise and there to be events with violence and war provocative moments.
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It was a major attack started by the north vietnamise. The brutality over laped with the lunar new year.
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The My Lai Massacre was an event where many people people were killed most inocent vut they got some vietcong. This was used by the media as a way to protest the war.
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Martin luther king Jr was commonly reffered to as the most influetual person in the civil rights movement. He pionnered peacfull protests in some terrible places.
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Bobby keniy was slain by a Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot at his hotel in Los Angles. This was thought to be a mob hit.
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Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the united states. He brought forth a policy of new federalisim, in which the powers shifted to the states.
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A sieres of protests in New York City by the gay community.
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The first man on the moon was neil armstrong. He was on apollo 11, a flight operated by nasa, and finished the space race.
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Roe V. Wade was a bill that made pregnant women able to decide if they had an abortion. It was a way that babys got killed for no reason.
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Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United states of America. He had to deal with the one percent of eligable americans who flead from the draft. "draft dodgers"
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Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the USA. He sought to reform welfare health care and tax systems.
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The Equal Rights Amendment provided equal rights such as voting to wemon. It was a huge step in wemens rights.
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40th president of the USA. He is often called the GOAT in terms of presidents.
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The berlin wall was torn down neer the end of the cold war. The soviets saw no more use in the wall and were pressured by many nations around the globe, notably the USA.
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The soveit union disbanded for many reasons, one of which was the atonomy of its members. The nations that were a part of the union felt they were better than others and should not need to join in and submit to the kremlin, they declaired independence and the rest is history.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act decrees that seggregation of dissabled people. It was signed by george bush.