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The very first permanent English settlement in the new world. Settled by Englishmen in 1607.
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The use of slavery, controling people as if they were one's property, began in the early 1600's.
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First house of legistlature in north america, which was an assembly of representatives that first met in Virginia in 1619.
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Governing document signed by everyone in the Plymouth colony in late 1620.
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French and Indians fought against Britain and the colonies.
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Treaty that ended the French and Indian war and was signed by Britain, France, and Spain.
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Britain ordered the colonists not to move past the appalachian mountains, or the Proclamation line.
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Briatain said that every legal document must be stamped, or teaxed.
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The Critical Period refers to the time when the untied states where under the Articles Of Confederation.
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British soldiers killed many American colonists in a horrific battle in the middle of the night.
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American colonists threw British tea into the harbor, so that Britain would loose money.
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All the colonies finally met together, first time they met as a group.
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Battle against Britain and the colonies, held in Massachusettes.
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Where all the colonies met again, held in Philadelphia, and decided they would break away from England altogether.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson. Told Britain that we were delclaring our independence.
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WEak national government that America came up with after the Revolutionary War. Complete opposite from Britain.
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Battle of Yorktown, where the war ended, and the British surrendered.
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Britain recognized America as independent.
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Plan established to survey the western lands.
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Rebellion of farmers because of taxes. Held in Massachusettes.
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Meeting of the colonies, only 5 showed up becasue they didnt really have power to enforce anything because it was so weak.
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Held in Philadelphia, meeting to create a new government and get rid of the Articles of confederation since it was so weak.
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The compromsie that slaves counted as 3\5ths of a person when it comes to the population in he house of representatives.
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Plan to add on new states and land.
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Compromise to settle conflict between large and small states.
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The time period when George Washinton was the president. He was the first president.
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Acts that set up the judicial branch of government created by George Washinton.
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Time period when America was trying to assimilate the Indians and force them to adapt american culture.
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The bill of rights are the first 10 amendments made to the constitution and list the freedoms that ever american citizen has.
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Invention made by Eli Whitney, increased the need for slaves, and made cotton picking much quicker and easier.
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The time period when John Adams was president. He beat Thomas Jefferson.
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Gabe Prosser and a group of other slaves revolted in Richmond, Virginia.
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The time period when Thomas Jefferson was president. He was the third president of the united states, beating John Adams.
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The court case that established judicial review since it wasnt included in the contstitution.
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The large area of land that Thomas Jefferson bought when he was president. It doubled the size of the united states.
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War between Britain and America, United States ends up winning.
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The court case that said that the Supreme Court had implied powers over commerce.
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Immigrants who came to America in the mid 1800's mostly from western and northern Europe, including Germany, England, and Norway.
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Suffrge leader who fought to get women the right to vote.
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The line that separates slave states and free states. Missouri was a salve state and Maine was a free state.
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The message President James Monroe wrote towards all European ppowers.
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The time when Andrew Jackson was president, and he used the spoils system to get his freinds in congress.
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The court case over steam boats and the court ahd to settle a disagreement between federal and state powers.
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The time of the common man, when Andrew Jackson was president and he made his campain to satisfy the common man now that all white males could vote.
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Andrew Jackson forced all the indians to Wyoming, resulting in the trail of tears.
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Nat Turner revloted with a group of other slaves in SouthHampton, Virginia.
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Battle where Texas fought till everyone of thier men had died.
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Texas joins the union.
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Battle where Texas gained their indpendence.
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Mexico fought with Texas on the hsubject of independence. Texas was mostly Americans.
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Everyone rushed to California in hopes to find gold and become rich.
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Meeting to discuss womens rights. Held in Seneca Falls, New york.
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Said that California was free, and that the area by Mexico could choose what it was, slavery, or free.
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Made it easier for southerners to catch runaway slaves, outraged the northerners.
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Uncle toms cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and it focused on slavery before the civil war.
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Americans moved the Indian reservation into a smaller territory.
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Said that Kansas and Nebraska would pick if it were a slave or free state, popular soverignty.
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Court case involving a slave, Dred Scott who was taken on to free territory yet he did not recieve his freedom. Court said he was unable to sue because he was not an american citizen.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president. It angered the south and they seceded.
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the first batle of the civil war.
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Act that gave settlers 160 free acres of land if they were willing to settle it for 5 years.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Speech given by Lincoln that abolished slavery.
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battle fought in mississippi where the union makes their way through the southern army.
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Turning point of the Civil War.
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Speech given by Abraham Lincoln, where he dedicated the cemetery to those who died during battle.
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Timeperiod after the war when the government struggled to resolve all the issues from the Civil War,
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Amendment to the constitution that abolished slavery.
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Court house where Robert E Lee surrendered marking the end of the civil war.
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President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play at Fords Theater and went across the street but died hours later.
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Officially linked the southern states into the union.
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Amendment to the constituion that gave slaves citizenship.
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Amendment to the contstitution that gave African Americans the right to vote.
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Union established by Uriah Stevens
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Period of segregation towards whites and black americans
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Rutherford Hayes becomes president.
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Immigrants who traveled to America from southern to eastern Europe in the early 1900's.
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United States banned the immigration of the chinese into our land.
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Union founded by Samuel Gompers
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The Haymarket Square riot was a massacre in Boston in 1886 when police tried to hold back men who were on strike and ended up in a bloody battle.
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The act that tried to assimilate the indians into adopting the American culture.
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Time period when the government was trying to restore the power back to the people and america made advancements in their over all society.
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Established by ohio's senator, John Sherman, the document stated that the government reserved the power to look into trusts, or companies in cases of suspicion,
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Henry Frick hired detectives, and steel workers on strike broke out in a fight
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Founded by Eugene V Debs to unite all railroad employees looking for better working conditions.
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Summer long strike that involved the workers of the railroad in a national strike.
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Court case over the law that seperated railroad cars for blacks and whites.
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Time when America and Mexico were at war, America won and annexed the Phillipines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
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Gave America control of Cuba, Guam, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico.
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Policy created by the United States to solve the problem of trade in China. It allowed all counties to have access to foreign trade with China.
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Somewhat of a treaty that allowed America to interfere in Cuban affairs to protect their independence.
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Rebellion in China where they tried to kick out all the foreign influence in their country. Unsuccessful.
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Area in Columbia that FDR wanted to make a canal with to make it easier to ship goods instead of having to travel down past South America to get to the other side of America, In exchange we helped Panama get their independence from Comlumbia.
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Message made by Frankin Delanore Roosevelt as an extension to the Monroe Doctorine, adding that we are a world power and urging countries not to mess with us.
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Allowed congress the right to issue an income tax.
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Time period when African Americans made their way to northern and western parts of the United States in hopes for jobs.
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Established that voters must elect senators of the united states
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War that involved multiple countries, the Allies and the Central Powers, that was started by consistent submarine warfare by the Germans and the German telegram to Mexico promising land if they attack America.
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Legislative body made up of five people who serve 7 year terms and bust people who are responsible for trusts.
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Established by the United States to further execute anti trust laws.
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United States enters the war after the sinking of their ship, the Lusitania, by the Germans, and because of the German Telegram to get Mexico against the US and the US had close ties to Britain,
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Act passed by FDR as apart of the new deal to get more people into the military and create more jobs for the american people.
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President Woodrow Wilson's plan to end the war, peace treaty that did not include German punishment, created the League of Nations, and established a policy of "self determination"
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Time period when African Americans prospored, making advancements in arts, poetry, and music.
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18th amendment to the constitution, outlawing the consumption of alcohol. Angered many americans, and was eventually changed in the 21st amendment, to where alcohol was no longer outlawed.
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Allowed women the right to vote.
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Peace treaty that ended WW1 by giving Germany a harsh punishment of billions of dollars, and refusal to form a military. The United States never signed this treaty, instead we made our own treaty with Germany.
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Act passed by congress to limit the number of people migration to the united states
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Trail where the question of evolution being taught in school was tested. John Scopes purposely taught evolution in hopes of getting the theroy outlawed from the curriculum.
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President during the Great Depression, usually blamed for not helping Americans through the rough time, and lost in his reelection to FDR.
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The day the stock market crashed and the start of the Great Depression.
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Time period when America struggled economically, stock market crashed, and many Americans went homeless. Herbert Hoover was president, and many people blamed him, calling their crappy houses Hovervilles.
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Refers to the time when the midwest of the United States was covered with dust and sand, ruining crops and farms and causing many farmers to go homeless since they had no income.
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Collatreralized Loan Obligation, small and large business paymetns are put together and passed on to diffrent owners.
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Collection of programs and laws passed by FDR to help the average American recover from the Great Depression. Relief, Recovery and Reform.
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President during the end of the Great Depression and the start of WW2. He created the New Deal which helped most Americans out of the depression. Very successful presidency.
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Created during the New Deal to ensure peoples money, regardless if the bank fails with your money in it. The government will ensure only up to 100,000 dollars.
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Act signed by FDR that created the National Labor Relations Board that worked to help organize unions.
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Program that ensures money to those who are unemployed, or those who are of old age.
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Act that regulated minimum wage. overtime, and set standards for businesses. It also had a 44 hour maximum per week limit on how long you could work.
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Agreement between Soviet Union and Germany to not attack each other during the course of the war.
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World War 11 began when Hitler invaded Poland, going against the Treaty of Versailles, so Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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50 year war that involved no real combat, but relied soley on competition between the Soviet Union and the US following world war 2.
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Germany goes against the nonaggression pact and invades Russia causing tension in Europe and Asia.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, causing the United States to declare war and join the allies.
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After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor the united states declares war and joins the allies.
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Turning point in World War 2 when the United States destroyed the Japnanese navy.
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The day that the allies invaded Normandy, prompting an end to the war.
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German surprise attack on the United States that left the US with a high amount of casualties and became the bloodiest battle in history.
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Court case involving the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans by the United States government.
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(Victory in Europe day) The day that World War 2 offically ended.
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The day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, because either the war would continue on and people would continue dying in battle, or the war would end with a straight death toll and Japan in ruins.
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Three days after Hiroshima, officially left Japan in ruins and they ultimately gave up. It left Germany fighting on its own, leading to the allies victory.
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Court cases between the German government and officers who were in charge during the Holocaust. 9 people were convicted and hanged for the horrific treatment of Jews during ww2.
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Financial aid plan proposed by John Marshall to rebuild Europe after it was left in ruins after WW2
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Soviet Union blockaded the capital of Germany, Berlin, so America had to fly supplies in via airplanes.
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Alliance between Britain, United States, France, Portugal and most of the western half of Europe.
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Communist leader Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in China, but cut off ties with the Soviet Union.
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War between North and South Korea, the North became communist and America fought alongside the South who remained democratic, however the war ended in a stalemate.
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34th president of the United States, but also served as general in World War 2.
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Married couple who was charged with sending atomic secrets to the Soviets and helping them build the hydrogen bomb.
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Alliance between Soviet Union, and the eastern half of Europe during the cold war.
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War between North and South Vietnam against communism, North was communism, the south was not. After Nixon pulled out the American troops, the South fell under north rule.
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First satellite in space, launched by the Soviet Union which began the race to get a man on the moon.
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The soviet union shot down a undetectful US spy plane with Francis Gary Powers and keep him hostage.
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Organization that focuses on oil prices and was invovled in the 1973 oil embargo where the price of oil rose significantly.
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Timespan that Germany was seperated in two parts, controlled by the Soviet Union and the US and was both democratic (west) and communist (east)
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35th president of the United States, assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
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Wall built by East Germany to separate Berline so no one could escape to the other side. Eventually torn down.
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The fight over Cuba continiued and the Soviet Union put missles on Duba, JFK threatened to blockade and demanded their removal from Cuba.
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President JFK was shot in the head on his way to dallas in a convertable, by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Election between Richard Nixon and Herbert Humphrey, Nixon won easily by promising to bring home the vietnam troops.
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Nixon defeats Humphreys in the 1968 election, and brings home the American troops from Vietnam before resigning after the Watergate scandal.
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The time of peace between the Soviet Union and the United States
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Nixon visited China to make amends and established a better relationship with the Chinese.
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Public scandal where president Nixon's committee tried to break into the Deomcratic house to increase Nixons chances of getting reelected, Nixon resigns.
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Nixon removed all America troops, leaving South Vietnam to fight for itself, which ended in defeat by North Vietnam.
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Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election, and was president throughout the Iran Crisis, and Panama treaty, and the SALT agreements.
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Treaty signed by Carter and the Panama general to give over rights to the canal back to Panama.
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A peace talk agreement between Egypt and Isreal to relieve the tension between the two countries.
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Iranian citizens invaded the American Embassy and took 52 Americans hostage for over a year. Afraid of what Reagan would do, they released the hostages the day before his inauguration.
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40th American president who played a role in the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, as well as streghtening the economy and military.
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Raegan told the President of the Soviet Union, Gorbechev, to tear the Berlin Wall down and get rid of the communism in East Germany. Eventually the Berlin Wall is torn down.
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Meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union presidents to discuss and sign the INF treaty that dealt with nuclear weapons.
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German citizens grew tired of the strict boarder lines and demanded the wall be taken down, and as the Soviet Union began to break apart, they lifted the boarder policies and allowed people to cross the boarder.
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As communism began to seem unappealing to many Russians, the tension in the Soviet Union increased , Gorbechev resigned, and many countries broke away, forming Russia.
