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WW2 came to an end on the 2nd of august, when peace was made germany had many repercussions. -
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
Korea's civil war between north and south, came to an end by dividing the country
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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 -
issuing some landmark decisions affecting civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedures
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was the 34th president. had to pickup where truman left off
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had to struggle to fix the world economically. was the 33rd president
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create two “regroupment” zones separated by a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) roughly along the 17th parallel -
war between north, south and vietamerican. came to an end when viet-american won
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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 -
supported the antiwar movement. brought some divide to the country
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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.
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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 -
assasination of MLK while after he did his I have a dream speach, shot from the crowd -
37th president. was form vice president to eisenhower
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was the impetus for the formation of the Gay Liberation Front
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allowed women to vote and gave them equal opportunities
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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 -
declared independence from communism, -
tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage
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protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Disability rights are civil rights