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1)Containment: The US and UK wanted to keep the threat of communism away from their capitalism, 2)Arms Race/Space Race: an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the USSR and the USA, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability as an attempt to one-up each other, 3)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was what the Russian government called its empire over Eastern Europe, 4)Communism: a threat to capitalism, 5)Domino Theory: diffusion theory of communism to neighbours
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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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Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Sociey" was a response to disciminayion based on race and gender in the mid-century. The Black Panthers were the "violent" opposite of MLK Jr.'s civil disobedience (non-violent protests). Important figures include: Thurgood Marshall, who was the lawyer of Brown v. the Board of Education (over segregation of schools), who later became a supreme court judge, and Cesar Chavez, who used protests that attacked economic overlords that weren't paying employees enough.
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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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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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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Abolishes the poll tax
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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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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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Jimmy Carter passes the Communiy Reinvestment Act of 1977, but does not get re-elected. Ronald Reagan then becomes president, elects Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the supreme court, has several sideline skirmishes with OPEC countries, proposes his "Star Wars" plan, and ignores the AIDS Epidemic that began with him in office because it only affected the LGBTQ+ community in the beginning.
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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begins 1979, ends 1981
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begins 1985, ends 1987
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