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-Containment: The United States not allowing the Communism to spread around the world
-Arms/Space Race:A Competition between the Soviets and the Americans to figure out who will have an advantage in weapons and in Space
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans:Also known as the USSR, it is a combination of Russia and multiple countries
-Communism: A systemic belief run by the government
-Domino Theory: The idea if Vietnam were to follow Communism, most of Southeast Asia would follow as well -
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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- Great Society: a domestic program made by Lyndon B. Johnson that sponsored social welfare programs
- Thurgood Marshall: American lawyer and 1st African American judge
- Black Panthers: a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism and against police brutality
- Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: practice of civil disobedience of social change through protests
- Cesar Chavez: Latino American civil rights activist.
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Abolishes the poll tax
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students during a civil protest
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-OPEC: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries coordinate the petroleum policies to members of the world
-Sandra Day O'Conner: first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the US
-Community reinvestment act of 1977: law designed to encourage commercial banks to help meet the needs of borrowers
-AIDS epidemic: A virus that spread from person to person through sexual activity and caused a epidemic
-Star Wars: U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks -
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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The Watergate scandal was a scandal during the 1972 Presidential Election. Frank Wills, a security guard, discovered clues that former FBI and CIA agents broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and months before the election.
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a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt
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a partial meltdown of a reactor of Three Mile Island Nuclear and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history
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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. 52 American citizens were held hostage by a group of militarized Iranian college students
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Was a political scandal that secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo
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