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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence Signed
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Constitution Written
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Bill Of Rights Ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
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Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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The Progressive Era
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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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
Containment: a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race: An arms race occurs when two or more countries increase the size of military resources to gain military
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: was a federal socialist state
Communism: each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
Domino Theory: the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries -
Truman Doctrine
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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
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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Rosenbergs Trial
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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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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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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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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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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Barack Obama
an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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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 -
24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
Medicare and Medicaid established -
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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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
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed. -
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 -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
when communist North Vietnamese forces took control of the capital of South Vietnam. The event in 1975 marked the end of nearly 30 years of internal conflict and ushered in the end of the Vietnam war. -
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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al-Qaeda
a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War. Al-Qaeda operates as a network of Islamic extremists and Salafist jihadists. -
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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. President Bush and his chief foreign policy advisers were more proactive toward Russia and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Communist monolith than while it was teetering. -
NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
The goal of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The implementation of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, brought the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than one-half of Mexico's exports to the U.S. and more than one-third of U.S. exports to Mexico. -
President Clinton's Impeachment
The impeachment of Bill Clinton occurred when Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998 for "high crimes and misdemeanors". -
Presidential Election of 2000
Bush, won the disputed election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore, the incumbent vice president. It was the fourth of five American presidential elections, and the first in 112 years, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest elections in US history. -
USA Patriot Act
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism -
Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. The law is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record and is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey.