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  • GI Bill

    serviceman readjustment act; helped veterans during peace time economy (education)
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  • united nations

    peacekeeping and international security
  • arms race

    nuclear and soviet union superpowers
  • Employmant act

    health insurance and increased minnimum wage
  • Iron curtian

    satalite status
  • Marshall Plan

    $ to revive euro. countries
  • national security act

    CIA and defense department
  • truman doctrine

    $ and millitary aid to Turkey and greece
  • No segregation in millitary federal government

  • fair deal

    health care insurance, funds for housing, fed aid to education
  • china controlled by comunists

  • korean war

  • 22 amendment

    max of two full terms
  • h bomb

  • malcolm x

    self defense activist
  • overthrow of iran

  • brown v. board of education

    no seg. in schools
  • Rosa parks and busboycotts

  • highway act

  • suez crisis

  • sputnik

  • MLK

  • eisenhower doctrine

    milltary and economic aid to middleeast or west?
  • berlin wall

  • cuban missle crisis

  • kennedy killed

  • washington(I have a dream)

  • civil rights act

    no seg. in public
  • LBJ great society

  • 24 amendment

    no seg in work
  • tokin golf resolution

  • voting rights act

  • riots and black panthers

  • "Bloody sunday"

    selma to mongomery
  • Pentagon papers

    My Lai
  • alcatrez and indians

  • stonewall

    start of gay movemnets
  • stagflation

    high unemployment and inflation
  • ERA

  • no sex discrimination

  • plumbers

  • vietnamization

    reduced involvment
  • Roe v. Wade

    abortion
  • oil embargo act

  • ceasar chavez

    united farm workers
  • indian self determination act

  • panama canal

  • imigration reform act

    no illegal immigrants working