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Early American History
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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
Communism
Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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OPEC is formed
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Kent State University Shooting
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End of the Cold War
Communism
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Watergate Scandal
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted in 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. This is significant because it helped cater to lower income families. -
Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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AIDS Epidemic
HIV/AIDS, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is considered by some authors a global pandemic. However, the WHO currently uses the term 'global epidemic' to describe HIV. This epidemic is significant because it effected lgbt communities more than others and helped build a stigma against these communities. This epidemic also exposed how people weren't as equal as our government likes to make it seem. -
Sandra Day O'connor Appointed to be on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'connor - Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired attorney, politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until her retirement in 2006. This is significant because she helped normalize women at such a high position in government. -
Star Wars (NOT the movies)
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. This is significant because it showed how scared of possible conflict we were and how much we were willing to invest in this program to fight the possibility. -
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century