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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
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
1-Containment
2-Arms Race/Space Race
3-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
4-Communism
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II. -
NATO Established
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Korean War
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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
-Great Society
-Thurgood Marshall
-Black Panthers
-Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience
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Rosenbergs Trial
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22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation. -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment. -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks' Arrest
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax. -
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam. -
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. -
Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters. -
Tet Offensive
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. -
Tinker v Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools. -
First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University Shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26 Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old. -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs. -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century