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Early American Hstory
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age
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The Progressive Era
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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
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory -
22 Amendment
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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
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-bomb Detonated by the United States
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Hernandez v. Texas
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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
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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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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tx
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24th Amendment Ratified
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civil Rights Act Passed
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Voting Rights Act Passed
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Martin Luther King
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Tet Offensive
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University Shooting
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End of Cold War
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment Ratified
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Title IX
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Watergate Scandal, leading to Nixon's registration
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Fall of Saigon
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Camp David Accords
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3 Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century