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Early American History
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Cival 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
Containment- The way America kept communism from growing in supporters.
Arms Race/Space Race- A race to see how fast the US and USSR could make more powerful weapons or get to the moon first.
The USSR- The Communist land where the Russian Federation now stands.
Communism- The belief that the government owns everything and you are giving things for working.
Domino Theory- The belief that if one country believed in communist the surrounding countries would too. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
You can't run for office for a third term -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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Nato Established
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenberg Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam. -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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End of the cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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War Powers Act
Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990's twenty first century