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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 I
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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united nations formed
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Early Cold war
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22nd amendment
22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
was ratified in march 1947 -
Truman doctorine
Truman Doctrine (1947): U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan (1948): program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights era
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sweatt v painter
Sweatt v. Painter: ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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hernandez v texas
Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
Brown v Board
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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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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24th Amendment
24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964 -
Civil rights act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Gulf of Tonkin resoultion
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Gulf of Tonkin resoultion
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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voting rights act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965: Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Tet Offensive
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civil rights act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1968: prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Tinker v. Des Moines: defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
tinker vs des moines
Tinker v. Des Moines: defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
he 1969 Supreme Court case of Tinker v. Des Moines found that freedom of speech must be protected in public schools, provided the show of expression or opinion—whether verbal or symbolic—is not disruptive to learning. The Court ruled in favor of John F. Tinker, a 15-year-old boy, and Mary Beth Tinker, 13, who wore black armbands to school to protest America's involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Kent State University shooting
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland -
Early Cold war
Containment:a barrier from nuclear weapons
Arms Race/Space Race: a race between the US and the USSR to see who can launch the first spacecraft.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:a federal socialist state in the cold war
Communism:the government has all control of the country and the people have no say
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Pentagon papers leaked
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26th amendment
Passed by Congress March 23, 1971, and ratified July 1, 1971, the 26th amendment granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older. -
Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
26th Amendment: moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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title IX
Title IX: protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
Wars Powers act
War Powers Act (1973): law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Wars Powers act
a law that limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building . -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland. -
Three Mile Island Disaster
The Three Mile Island accident inspired Charles Perrow's Normal Accident Theory, in which an accident occurs, resulting from an unanticipated interaction of multiple failures in a complex system. TMI was an example of this type of accident because it was "unexpected, incomprehensible, uncontrollable and unavoidable". -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran.Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized hostages. -
Iran Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
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1990s- 21st Century