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Early American History
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Civil 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
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Truman Docterine
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22nd Amnedment
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenburg Trials
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First H bomb detonated by the United States
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Jonas Salks invents Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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The USSR launches Sputnik
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Civil Rights Act of
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24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of
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Tinker Vs Des Moines
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First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment
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War Powers Act
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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century