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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace with the nations involved.
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Arms Race/ Space Race- Sputnik: First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. The U.S. decided to put the first man on the moon.
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A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading a society in which all property is publicly owned and people have very little in no say in the government and how things are run.
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Consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries.
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A competition between nations for superiority in the development and acumination of weapons- U.S. and Soviet Union.
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In response to the Soviet Union blockade to West Berlin the U.S. dropped supplies via planes from nearly a year until the Soviet Union got rid of the blockade
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Keep something from spreading, (Communism)
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president 2 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 WW 2.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European countries.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korean and South Korea. The war began on June 25, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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If 1 country in a region came under the influence of communism then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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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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Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. Him and his wife where executed in the electric chair.
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The United States detonates the worlds first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. This was a test.
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces a national radio show that he has successfully tester a vaccine against.
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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, Alabama.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. This began the Space Race with the U.S.
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Under escort from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration.
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Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Built 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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direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
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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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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, 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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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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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Medicaid was designed to expand access to “mainstream” health care for low-income individuals and families. The federal government would make payments to states to pay for half or more of their costs in furnishing services to beneficiaries.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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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
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967.
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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 South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. The South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese
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