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The united nations formed
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Great Society-a set of domestic programs
Thurgood Marshall-Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Black Panthers-Party for Self-Defense
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience- practice of achieving goals such as social change
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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when they dropped supplices for the people
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Marshall Plan program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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The North Atlantic treaty
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
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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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Containment-the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
Arms Race/Space:competition between two Cold War rivals firsts in spaceflight capability.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-comprising a confederation of Russia
Communism-all property is publicly owned and each person work
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the court convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy to commit espionage.
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hydrogen bomb
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
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Hernandez v. Texas: Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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vaccine for polio
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they launch
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built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on cuba
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Abolishes the poll 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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programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters
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coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
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The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students
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OPEC-Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Sandra Day O’Connor-is a retired attorney, politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977-federal law designed to encourage
AIDS Epidemic-Human Immunodeficiency Virus,
Star Wars (NOT the movies)- the war -
Pentagon Papers leaked slowly to the public
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moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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He fired White House Counsel John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee and said that he believed and suspected the conversations in the Oval Office were being taped.
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The end of Vietnam War
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The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
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1979-1981The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students
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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979
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Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987 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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