The Cold War

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    The Cold War

  • end of WW2

    end of WW2

    WW2 came to an end on the 2nd of august, when peace was made germany had many repercussions.
  • The Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine

    established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
  • The Korean War

    Korea's civil war between north and south, came to an end by dividing the country
  • brown v board of education

    brown v board of education

    a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality
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    Warren Court

    issuing some landmark decisions affecting civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedures
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    presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

    was the 34th president. had to pickup where truman left off
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    presidency of Harry S. Truman

    had to struggle to fix the world economically. was the 33rd president
  • geneva accords

    geneva accords

    create two “regroupment” zones separated by a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) roughly along the 17th parallel
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    Vietnam War

    war between north, south and vietamerican. came to an end when viet-american won
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act

    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing
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    counterculture movement

    supported the antiwar movement. brought some divide to the country
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    tet offensive

    North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault.
  • my lai massacre

    my lai massacre

    First Lieutenant William L. “Rusty” Calley, Jr., and his platoon murdered at least 300 Vietnamese civilians (and perhaps as many as 500) at a small South Vietnamese sub-hamlet called My Lai
  • MLK Assassination

    MLK Assassination

    assasination of MLK while after he did his I have a dream speach, shot from the crowd
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    presidency of richard nixon

    37th president. was form vice president to eisenhower
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    Stonewall Riots

    was the impetus for the formation of the Gay Liberation Front
  • equal rights amendment

    allowed women to vote and gave them equal opportunities
  • roe v wade

    roe v wade

    woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from "depriv[ing] any person of liberty without due process of law
  • Vietnam war ends

    Vietnam war ends

    declared independence from communism,
  • Berlin Airlift

    tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage
  • americans with disabilities act

    americans with disabilities act

    protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Disability rights are civil rights