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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-American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
Arms Race/Space Race-a race between the U.S. and the USSR to get to the moon and make better weapons
USSR-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism-a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public
Domino Theory-the theory that a political event will cause another event -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO Established
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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
Great Society-society with the main goal of eliminating poverty and racial inequality
Thurgood Marshall-the first African American that served on the Supreme Court, and greatly contributed to the ending of official segregation in the US
Black Panthers-the Black Panther Party was created by college student in order to protest police brutality against black people
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience-protests in which people avoided violence and used other methods to get their point across -
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era Continued
Cesar Chavez-civil-rights activist who used nonviolent methods to help overworked farmworkers, and who formed the National Farm Workers Association -
Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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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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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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24th Amendment
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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 -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
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
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, an organization that aims to coordinate the sale of petroleum and stabilize the economy
Sandra Day O’Connor - A politician and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 -
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AIDS Epidemic - A global epidemic of the HIV disease that has killed over 700,000 people
Star Wars - A defensive system created to protect against potential nuclear attacks -
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
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
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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1990s-21st Century