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Abolishing of slavery
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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege's or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property...
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The right for citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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A political ideology derived from Karl Marx advocating no private property, no class status and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
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Competition between America and the Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare and the race to get into space.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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United States Policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism.
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. ...
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom – all of this in the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union
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The American idea that if communism was not contained other regions and countries would become communist like dominos falling.
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conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.
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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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The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians
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On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States conducted its first nuclear test of a fusion device, or “hydrogen bomb,” at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
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exican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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The first polio vaccine, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) or Salk vaccine
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the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis
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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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the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, one of the seminal events of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States.
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protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building .
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The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
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The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.
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militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year.
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The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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Consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries