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Communism
A theory or system of a social organization based on holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state -
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Civil war/Reconstruction
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The Glided 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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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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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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Containment
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits -
22nd Amendemnet
prohibits anyone who has
been elected president twice from being
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave
military and economic aid to countries
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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
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Domino Theory
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in the neighboring countries. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
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 Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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Arms Race/Space Race
When two or more countries increases the quality of military resources to gain superiority over the other -
: USSR launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
Group of black students that went to an all white school -
Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of cuba -
: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
They built a wall in germany berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendment
Outlawed the poll tax -
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
MLK delivered a sppech tslking about waht he wants for the future of eqaulity. -
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins 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
He was killed on a baloncy -
Civil Rights Act of 1968:
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker vs Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
First Man on the Moon
Man on the moon -
Kent State University shooting
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End Of 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
aw limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
Poltical scandal in the united states invloving Nixon. A break in headquarters. -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
A pair of poltical agreements -
Three Mile Island Disaster
Partial breakdown of reactor 2 -
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Iran Hostage Crisis
Dipolmatic standoff between United states and Iran -
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Iran Contra Affair
Secert us arms deal that traded missles -
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1900s-21st Century