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Standard Oil Trust; Andrew Carnegie - Steel
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denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens lands to whites
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Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians
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outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints
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formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government
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journalism that features unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists.
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'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)
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voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes
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Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain's Navy
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ends the Spanish-American War
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U.S. attempt to gain foothold in Chinese markets
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Teddy Roosevelt then became the 26th president.
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Increases U.S presence in Latin America.
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Writers who expose big business corruption.
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set food quality standards
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connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Opens in 1914)
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sinks British passenger liner Lusitania, Americans killed on board
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establishes the draft
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unrestricted submarine warfare-gets warning from U.S.
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intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI
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establishes the draft
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by Woodrow Wilson, 14th pt most important - calls for League of Nations
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ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it
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outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol
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women's suffrage
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exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration
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ease war reparations on Germany
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popularizes debate over teaching evolution in schools -outlawed
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completes world's first solo flight across Atlantic - seen as a hero
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executed for murder; controversial because the were anarchists, politically motivated and unjustified
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'Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression
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forced out
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president
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unemployment rate reaches 25%
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FDR on public radio
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creation of jobs
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large tax becomes a burden on wealthy
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supports union rights, protects collective bargaining.
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establishes funds for the unemployed and elderly.
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Elected for third term
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provides U.S. loan aid to Britain, USSR & allied powers
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Agreement to FDR and Britains prime minister
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motivate citizens to support war efforts
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us defeats japan
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Imprisonment of Japanese
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creation of atomic bomb
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begins to break down Axis position on western front
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France on D-DAY, June 6, 1944
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Allies
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Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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surrenders on V-E-DAY
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created with 51 founding nations
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prosecute Nazi war criminals
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describes division of Communist Eastern Europe from Western Europe
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U.S. intent to fight Communism by helping free nations resist it.
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postwar economic recovery to help Western Europe; largest relief aid given by the U.S. in U.S. history
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USSR blocks all aid into West Berlin; Berlin Airlift-U.S. drops food and supplies by air to West Berlin
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orders desegregation of military
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alliance system of 26 countries in North America and Europe
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U.S. aids South Korea against North Korea; Peace Treaty in 1953
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begins rabid anti-communist campaign; hurt when he accuses military of having communists; alcoholic
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage; Alger Hiss convicted of perjury - 1991 Soviet documents confirm their guilt!
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overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional
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stop spread of communium
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sparks Montgomery Bus
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creates polio vaccine
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USSR launches first satellite in space
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New Frontier platform to help America
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1st televised Presidential debate
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spark waves of civil rights protest; SCLC created by MLK, Jr.
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failed invasion of Cuba by U.S. (CIA) trained military
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divides East and West Berlin
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standoff b/n U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States
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speech for civil rights
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assassinates JFK in Dallas, TX
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launches "Great Society" program to end poverty and racism
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bans discrimination in education, employment, & public places
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broadens LBJ's military powers in Vietnam
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bans literacy tests for voting
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blamed whites for African American problems; assassinated
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police must read suspects their rights
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first black justice of the Supreme Court
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Richard Nixon voted President
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North Vietnamese Army-turning point of U.S. in Vietnam
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hurts Civil Rights movement
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Neil Armstrong first to walk on moon
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U.S. soldiers kill 200 innocent men, women, and children
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gov was not telling the truth to the public.
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Nixon authorizes break-in and wiretapping
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legalizes abortion
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fuel shortage in U.S. due to OPEC raising prices
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overtakes south after departing
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Gerald Ford President - pardons Nixon; Ford is only President never voted into office.
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jimmy carter
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Carter negotiates peace between Egypt and Israel
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nuclear power accident causes concern of nuclear safety
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elected 40th President
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hostages released after 444 days in captivity.
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space based missile defense proposed
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space program never the same
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Libya for supporting Palestinians
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Islamist group Al Qaeda
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democracy revolt in Tiananmen Square
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it's cool
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starts Operation Desert Storm
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appoints Janet Reno first female attorney general