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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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Sweatt v. Painter
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
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Social Security Act
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Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII
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World War II
Island Hopping
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
The Manhattan Project
Rosie the Riveter -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
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“D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy
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G.I. Bil
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United Nations formed
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The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
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The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)
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Early Cold War
Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory -
22nd Amendment
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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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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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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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Interstate Highway Act
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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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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendmen
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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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 Offensive
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Civil Rights Act of 1968:
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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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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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaste
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iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century