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Early American Histor
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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- Stoping the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- Us and Soviet union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Milkhail Gorbachev
Communism- Berlin Wall come down, borders opened
Domino Theory-when one country does one thing the ones follow. -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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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 Rights Era
Great Society- was a set of domestic programs in the United States
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Black Panthers was a Black Power political organization founded by college students
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power,
Cesar Chavez- known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms -
Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk 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 Luther King’s “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 the undeclared war in Vietnam -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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 of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
OPE organization consisting of 12 member countries whose primarygoal is to stabilize the oil market by balancing the supply and demand of oil
Sandra Day O’Connor first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-requires the Federal Resregulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities
AIDS Epidemic- caused by HIV
Star Wars (NOT the movies)- was a proposed missile defensesystem intended to protect the United States -
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 -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century