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Early American history
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Civil War
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Gilded age
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Progressive era
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Imperialism
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World War
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
-containment
-arms race/ space race
-USSR
-communism
-domino theory -
22nd Ammendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. -
Truman Doctrine
US policy that gave aid to military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European counties rebuild after WW2. -
NATO is established
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Sweatt v. Painter
Ruled the separate law by school. -
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H- Bomb by US
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Korean War
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Brown v. Board of Education
Mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans has 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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USSR launches sputnik
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Little Rock Nine interrogated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Boy of Pigs invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
MLK's Speech
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam. -
Civil Rights Act
Made discrimination illegal to employers -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting rights act
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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MLK is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
prohibited discrimination in the sale of housing. -
Tinker v. Moines
Defended 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 Cold War
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old. -
Title IX
Protects people from discrimination based on gender. -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate scandle
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Fall of Saigon
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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