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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 something harmful under control
-Arms Race/Space Race: competition between nations to be better
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: is established by a confederation between Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation
-Communism: Theory advocating class war
-Domino Theory: the theory that political event in one country, causing events in neighboring countries -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22 Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
a 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: a set of domestic programs in the United States
Thurgood Marshall: an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Black Panthers: Sit in restaurants to appose segragation
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: the practice of achieving goals such as social change
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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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
Mexican Americans and all other races provided 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 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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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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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 -
24th Amendment
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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 -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined 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 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): Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics -
Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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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