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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
•Containment
•Arms Race/Space Race
•The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
•Communism
•Domino Theory -
Berlin Airlift
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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 but equal” -
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenberg Trials
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First H-bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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USSR launches the Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built
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24th Amendment
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK Assassination
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MLK Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" Speech
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
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 -
Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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MLK Jr. assassinated
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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
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century