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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
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "Separate but equal" -
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Civil Right Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendement
prohibits anyone who as been elected president twice from being elected again -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
over turned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Silk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks arrest
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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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24th Amendment
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Martin LutherKings "I Have a Dream Speech" at the march on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,Tx
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Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Civil Rights Act
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 Medicade established
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Voting Rights Act
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the first Amendment rights for students in the United States public schools -
first Man on the Moon
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon papers leaked
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26th Amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
Title IX
Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
law limited the president's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Fall Of Saigon,marks the end of the Vietnam War
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19190's 21st Century