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4) Communism: A system of government where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs. 5) Domino Theory: The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
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1) Containment: American policy of resisting the further expansion of communism around the world. 2) Arms Race: Competition between the Soviets and Americans on who could develop powerful nuclear weapons. 2) Space Race: Competition between the Soviets and Americans on who can make more discoveries in outer space. 3) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: It was the first country to declare itself socialist and build towards a communist society.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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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-was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and came to represent his domestic agenda. Thurgood Marshall-as an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
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Cesar Chavez-was an American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist. -Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-passive resistance, the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition Black Panther- Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966
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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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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery
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enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students' effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which had declared segregated schooling to be unconstitutional.
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Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing and stop an economically disastrous migration of workers. It was a symbol of the Cold War, and its fall in 1989 marked the approaching end of the war.
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Abolishes the poll tax
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public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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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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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN
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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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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.
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the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland.
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OPEC-The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries-To establish a limit on Oil production, and to set the price of Oil
Sandra Day O’Connor- the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until her retirement in 2006
AIDS Epidemic-AIDS epidemic began in illness, fear, and death as the world faced a new and unknown virus. -
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-requires the Federal Reserve and other federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.
Star Wars- The Strategic Defense Initiative nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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Title IX: 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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He fired White House Counsel John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee and said that he believed and suspected the conversations in the Oval Office were being taped. This information became the bombshell that helped force, Richard Nixon, to resign rather than be impeached.
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The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland.
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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. ... After Shah Pahlavi was overthrown, he was admitted to the U.S. for cancer treatment. Iran demanded his return in order to stand trial for crimes that he was accused of committing during his reign.
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The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979.
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Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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