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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: the action of keeping harm from arms way
-Arms Race/Space Race: competition between nations to be on top
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: comprising a consideration of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation
-Communism: Theory derived from Karl Marx
-Domino Theory: Theory that political events also affect other countries -
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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Sweat vs painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown vs board of education
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hernandez v texas
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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 9 inter grated into an all white school
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Bay of pigs invade Cuba
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Berlin Wall built
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Cuban missal crisis
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MLK jr i have a dream speech
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John f Kennedy killed
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Begins the war in Vietnam -
24th amendment
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Civil rights act
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting rights act
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Tet offensive
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MLK jr killed
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Civil rights act
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Tinker v.Des Moines
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First man on the moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
OPEC: imposed against the U.S.
Sandra Day O’Connor: First women in the supreme court
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities
AIDS Epidemic: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Star Wars (NOT the movies): the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics -
Pentagon papers leaked
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26th amendment
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War powers act
Law limits the president rights to send troops into battle without congress approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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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