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history class baeeee

By kalahernandez
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    early american history

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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

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    the gilded age

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    the progressive era

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    imperialism

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    world war 1

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    roaring twenties

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    great depression

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    world war 2

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • united nations formed

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    early cold war

    containment-the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
    arms race-a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
    communism-society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
    domino theory-one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • berlin airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • koren war

    to 1953

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    civil rights era

  • Rosenburg trials

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam war

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • 24th Amendment

    abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Gulf of tonkin resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • medicare and medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    end of cold war

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st century