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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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Early Cold War
Containment: The US (democratic) tried to prevent the spread of communism from the Soviet Union into the rest of the world.
Arms Race/Space Race: During the Cold War, the US and the USSR competed for who had the largest weapons and who would send the first object into space.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: USSR/Communist Soviet Union
Communism: form of government, classless society, gov. owns all production
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United Nations Formed
United Nations: China, France, Russia, UK, US, etc....
The goal was to maintain peace and harmony in order to prevent another world war. -
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
After the USSR blocked land access to West Berlin, planes flew over and delivered food and other supplies and necessities to the people. -
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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Sweatt v. Painter
Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate bu equal" -
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenberg Trials
During the second Red Scare, a married couple, Julius and Ethel, were accused of being communist spies giving information to the USSR. Later, Julius was found guilty and both were sentenced to death by the chair. -
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the US
Operation Ivy. First successful hydrogen bomb explosion. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Park's Arrest
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist Easy Berlin
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24th Amendment
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Communist Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. The "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba by the US failed. The US found evidence of troops and missiles set in Cuba by USSR and issues a quarantine. The Soviet Union removes weapons from Cuba and the US removes missiles from Turkey. -
Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" Speech at the March in Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Civil Rights Act
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congressional resolution giving the President authority to take whatever military action he wanted to in the Vietnam War. -
Voting Rights Act
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Medicare and Medicaid
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation, establishing Medicare and Medicaid programs. -
Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
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Tet Offensive
Attack led by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese communists against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. -
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Tinker vs. Des Moines
A group of children got expelled from school for wearing black bands around their arms protesting against the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court ruled that it was their constitutional right according to the 1st Amendment and that they should return to school. -
First Man on the Moon
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Title X
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Kent State University Shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
Daniel Ellsburg published a secret government study of US involvement in the Vietnam War. -
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26th Amendment
President Nixon signed the 26th Amendment which lowered the election voting age to 18 years. -
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War Powers Act
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Watergate Scandal leading to Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, End of 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