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- Containment-a policy to stop the spread of communism
- Arms Race/Space Race-tried to intimidate with the best nuclear weapons and a spaceflight competition between the soviet union and united states 3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-a communist country that includes Russia and 14 other countries 4.Communism-common ownership and no social classes 5.Domino Theory-theory that if one country became communist then the neighboring countries would follow suit and do the same.
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The United Nations aims to maintain peace and security and a place for other countries to harmonize and develop friendly relations
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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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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Soviet forces blockaded all road, rail and water routes into Berlin's Allied-controlled areas, stifling the vital flow of food, coal and other supplies and the airlift provided these things for the people.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
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ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "seperate but equal"
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice.
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In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953.
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Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion
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Mexican Americans and all the other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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overturned Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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Researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks arrest
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
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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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leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff
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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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begins the undeclared war in Vietnam
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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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Abolishes the poll tax
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a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65+ or under 65 and have a disability, no matter your income.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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First Man on the Moon
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years
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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 Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
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