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• Rodney King
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• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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: American Civil War
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• 13th Amendment
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: Reconstruction
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• 14th Amendment
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• 15th Amendment
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• Jim Crow Laws Start in South
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• Plessy v. Ferguson
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• Wright Brother’s Airplane
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• Model-T
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• Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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• Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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World War I
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• Sinking of the Lusitania
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• Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. -
• Russian Revolution
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• U.S. entry into WWI
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• Battle of Argonne Forest
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from 26 September 1918 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, a total of 47 days -
• Armistice
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, since it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. It is derived from the Latin arma, meaning "arms" (as in weapons) and -stitium, meaning "a stopping". -
• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's -
• Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz -
President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term ... -
• President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
• President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term -
• Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
• Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -
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: Roaring Twenties
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Roaring Twenties
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• Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G -
• Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, -
• Scopes “Monkey” Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T -
• Scopes “Monkey” Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T -
mein kampf published
On this day in History, Mein Kampf is published on Jul 18, 1925. Learn more about what happened today on History. -
• Mein Kampf published
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. -
• Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
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• Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Great Depression
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• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The Tariff Act of 1930 otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. -
• Hoovervilles
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
• 100, 000 Banks Have Failed
As the economic depression deepened in the early 30s, and as farmers had less and less money to spend in town, banks began to fail at alarming rates. During the 20s, there ... But others have looked at fundamental economic factors and regional histories and argued that banks failed as a result of the economic collapse. -
• Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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• Public Works Administration (PWA
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• Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Hitler appointed chancellor of germany
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal Programs
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The Holocaust
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the holocaust
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• Dust Bowl
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• Social Security Administration (SSA)
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• Rape of Nanjing
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• Kristallnacht
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• Hitler invades Poland
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world war II
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world war II
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• German Blitzkrieg attacks
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• Pearl Harbor
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• Tuskegee Airmen
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• Navajo Code Talkers
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tuskegee airmen
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navajo code talkers
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• Executive Order 9066
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• Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
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Bataan Death March
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• Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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invasion of normandy (D-Day)
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• GI Bill
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• Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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• Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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• Liberation of Concentration Camps
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• Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Horoshima
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Victory over Japan/pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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liberation of Concentration camps
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victory in Europe (VE) Day
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• United Nations (UN) Formed
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• Germany Divided
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World War II
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Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A World War I veteran, he assumed the presidency during the waning months of World War II and the beginning of -
• Nuremberg Trials
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Nuremberg trials
Coordinates: 49°27.2603′N 11°02.9103′E / 49.4543383°N 11.0485050°E / 49.4543383; 11.0485050 The Nuremberg trials (German: die Nürnberger Prozesse) were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II -
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: Baby Boom
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• Truman Doctrine
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• 22nd Amendment
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• Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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the cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine, a U.S. -
• Arab-Israeli War Begins
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• Marshall Plan
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• Berlin Airlift
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• NATO Formed
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• Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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• UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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• Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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Korean War
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1950s Prosperity
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• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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• Armistice Signed
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Warren Court
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: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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• Hernandez v. Texas
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• Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
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• Brown v. Board of Education
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• Warsaw Pact Formed
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• Polio Vaccine
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• Rosa Parks Arrested
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• Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Vietnam War
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• Interstate Highway Act
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• Elvis Presley First Hit Song
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Sputnik
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• Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
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• Civil Rights Act of 1957
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• Little Rock Nine
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• Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
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• Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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• Bay of Pigs Invasion
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• Peace Corps Formed
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• Mapp v. Ohio
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• Affirmative Action
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John F. Kennedy
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• Cuban Missile Crisis
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• Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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• Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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• George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
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• The Feminine Mystique
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• March on Washington
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• Gideon v. Wainwright
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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• The Great Society
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• Escobedo v. Illinois
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• Civil Rights Act of 1964
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• 24th Amendment
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• Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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• Voting Rights Act of 1965
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• Malcom X Assassinated
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• United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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• Miranda v. Arizona
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• Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
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• Six Day War
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• Tet Offensive
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• My Lai Massacre
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• Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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• Vietnamization
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• Draft Lottery
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• Manson Family Murders
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• Apollo 11
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• Tinker v. Des Moines
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• Woodstock Music Festival
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Richard Nixon
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• Invasion of Cambodia
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• Kent State Shootings
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• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
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• 26th Amendment
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• Policy of Détente Begins
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• Pentagon Papers
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Jimmy Carter
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• Title IX
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• Watergate Scandal
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• Nixon Visits China
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• Roe v. Wade
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• Engaged Species Act
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• First Cell-Phones
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• War Powers Resolution
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• OPEC Oil Embargo
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• Ford Pardons Nixon
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• United States v. Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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• National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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• Fall of Saigon
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• Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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• Steve Jobs Starts Apple
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• Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
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• Camp David Accords
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• Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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: Iran Hostage Crisis
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• Conservative Resurgence
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• “Trickle Down Economics
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• War on Drugs
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• Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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• AIDS Epidemic
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Ronald Reagan
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• Marines in Lebanon
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• Iran-Contra Affair
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• The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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• End of Cold War
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• Berlin Wall Falls
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• “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
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George H. W. Bush
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• Iraq Invades Kuwait
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• Germany Reunification
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: Persian Gulf War
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• Soviet Union Collapses
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• Operation Desert Storm
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• Ms. Adcox Born
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Bill Clinton
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• NAFTA Founded
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• Contract with America
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• O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century
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• Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
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Jenner Ramos
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• USA Patriot Act
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• 9/11 (September 11
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• War on Terror
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: War in Afghanistan
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George W. Bush
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• NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
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: Iraq War
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• Facebook Launched
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• Hurricane Katrina
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• Saddam Hussein Executed
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• Iphone Released
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• Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
Nov 21, 2008 - Two confidants said Hillary Rodham Clinton would give up her Senate seat and accept the nomination for secretary of stat -
• Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68–31 -
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub.L. 111–5), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009 -
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: Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
Definition of Arab Spring. : a series of antigovernment uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010 -
• Osama Bin Laden Killed
In February 1998, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri co-signed a fatwa in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, which declared the killing -
• Space X Falcon 9
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• Donald Trump Elected President
Donald Trump. Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
