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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 1
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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Early Cold War
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United Nations Formed
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Truman Doctrine
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22nd Amendment
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
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Korean war
Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
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Roenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the US
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Vietnam War
Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:
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Jonas Salk invents the Polo Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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USSR Launches Sputik
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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 Crises
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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
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24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Voting Rights Act of
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of
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First Man on the Moon
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End of Cold War
Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990's-21st Century
Containment- United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union, and the United States
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.
Communism- seeks to create a classless society where the major means of production
Domino Theory- the theory that one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries