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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
- Containment: Keeping Something harmful under control within limits
- Arms Race/ Space Race: The race between the U.S. and USSR to increase and advance their weapons
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: A federal socialist state
- Communism: A society without social classes
- Domino Theory: The theory that a political event in one country will then happen in a neighboring country.
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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
Great Society: A program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. Helped low income families.
Thurgood Marshall: He was the first African American to be on the Supreme Court.
Black Panthers: An African American political party. Advocated for African American rights in America and was a major part of the Civil Rights movement.
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Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Rosenberg's 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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Hernandez v. Texas
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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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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Cesar Chavez
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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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Golf of Tonkin Resolution
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24th Amendment
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Tet Offense
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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First Man on the Moon
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Tinker V. Des Moines
Freedom of speech must be protected in schools -
Kent State University shooting
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End Of The Cold War
OPEC: the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Sandra Day O’Connor: First female associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: Law for banks to help borrowers.
AIDS Epidemic: A rapid increase of AIDS cases in the 80's.
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
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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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1990's- 21st Century