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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. 1950-1953
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is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
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is an international nonprofit organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
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is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States
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is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin (see Berlin wall) (see also Berlin wall), had cut off its supply routes.
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries: established by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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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 and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion.
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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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This vaccine contains killed virus and is given by injection. The large-scale use of IPV began in February 1954, when it was administered to American schoolchildren.
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The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability
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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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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
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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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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