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Germany signed their unconditional surrender
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the united nation was formed with the aim of preventing future wars and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
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An American foreign policy whose purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
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An American initiative to aid Western Europe
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Abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.
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Consisting of
29 North American and European countries.
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the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks
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Started with Russian Sputnick
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Castro and Guevara overthrew Batista and turned Cuba communist
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Kennedy was just barely able to avoid a nuclear war between the US & the USSR. The USSR agreed to not hold nuclear weapons in Cuba as long as the US never invaded Cuba again. The crisis was seen as a win for the US.
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Author;Betty Friedan
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During this event, Martin Luther King delivered his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech
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prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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EOC created several programs: Job Corps & Work Study, which provide work training & employment; VISTA, which trains volunteers to fight poverty; Adult Basic Education; Head Start, which provided pre-school to young children.
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Part of the New Deal
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the Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.
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outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be.." ect.
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in the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, that Merritt Junior College students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
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abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States
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the Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn
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an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection
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Right to Vote at Age 18
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a woman's right to choose an abortion was protected by the privacy rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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The Supreme Court ruled that specific quotas for minorities are unconstitutional, which hugely hurt Affirmative Action. Today
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