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Wave of Immigration
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Homestead Act (1862)
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13 amendment
free slavery -
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reconstruction era
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14 amendment
was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed (1869)
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Industrialization Begins to Boom (1870)
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15 amendment
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall (1871)
Tammany Hall was a New York City political organization to use immigrants to vote -
Telephone Invented (1876)
involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies -
Reconstruction Ends (1877)
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jim crow lawsstart in south
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Gilded age
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Light Bulb Invented (1878)
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
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Pendleton Act (1883)
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Dawes Act (1887)
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Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889)
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chicagos hull house
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Klondike Gold Rush (1890)
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
It allowed certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be competitive -
how the other half lives
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influence of sea power upon history
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progressive Era
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imperalism
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike (1892)
strike had won the steelworkers a favorable three-year contract; 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union -
Pullman Labor Strike (1894)
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plessy v. ferguson
“separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. -
Annexation of Hawaii (1897
Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War -
spanish american war
the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Open Door Policy (1899)
term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy -
assassination of presdent mckinley
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Assassination of President McKinley (1901
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Theodore Roosevelt (1901- 1909)
is "Square Deal" included regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs. republican party -
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Theodore Roosevelt
big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy -
wright brothers airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins (1904)
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the jungle
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
pure food and drug act 1906
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Model-T
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NAACP
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William Howard Taft (1909- 1913)
dollar diplomacy third-party candidate -
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William Howard Taft
dollar diplomacy, in which the United States used its military might to promote American business interests abroad -
federal reserve act
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16th admendment
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Woodrow Wilson (1913- 1921)
democratic party progressive reform -
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Woodrow Wilson
Moral diplomacy -
17th amendment
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Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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world war 1
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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national park sytem
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Russian Revolution
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U.S. entry into WWI
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Armistice
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
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18th amendment
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19th amendment
women the right to vote womans suffrage -
Harlem Renaissance
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Red Scare
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President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial
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Mein Kampf published
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Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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100, 000 Banks Have Failed
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
1932 Germany saw the rise of the Nazi party into a prominent political force. The Weimar government had failed its people and, following the worldwide depression, -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal Programs
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The Holocaust
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Dust Bowl
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Social Security Administration (SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome -
Hitler invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign ( or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany -
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
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Pearl Harbor
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navajo Code Talkers
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March (Filipino: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan; Japanese: -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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GI Bill
A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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United Nations (UN) Formed
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order -
Germany Divided
the western powers introduced a new form of currency into the western zones, which caused the Soviet Union to impose the Berlin Blockade one day later -
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
mao zedong established communist rule in china
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22nd amendment
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cold war
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000 -
Berlin Airlift
Truman, however, did not want to cause World War III. Instead, he ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin -
arab israeli war begins 1948
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NATO Formed
Connect with Britannica. From its founding, NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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• Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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• UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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• Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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china
populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km of coastline. -
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Korean War
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1950s Prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Armistice Signed
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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warren court
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hernandez v. texas
case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II -
brown v. board of education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
ho chi mihn established communist rule in vietnam
nacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe -
polio vaccine
Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is an attenuated vaccine, produced by the passage of the virus through non-human cells at a sub-physiological temperature, which produces spontaneous mutations in the viral genome. -
rosa parks arrested
for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
montgomery bus boycott
political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, -
oj simpson trial of the century
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vietnam war
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interstate highway act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. -
elvis presley first hit song
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2nd Sputnik I
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leave it to the beaver first airs on tv
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civil rights act of 1957
the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
little rock nine
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
kennedy vs nixon tv debate
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. -
chicago mural movement begins
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Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, -
peace corps formed
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mapp v. ohio
was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures, -
affirmative action 1961
President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin. -
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sam walton opens first walmart
first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas. The Walton family owns 24 stores, ringing up $12.7 million in sales -
cuban missile crisis
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
kennedy assassinated in dallas, texas
on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza -
gideon v. wainwright
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george wallace blocks uneversity of alabama entrance
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the feminine mystique
book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
march on washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, -
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lyndon B. johnson
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the great society
was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. -
gulf of tonkin resolution
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civil rights act of 1964
which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, i -
24 amendment
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israeli palestine conflict begins
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escobedo v. illinois
was a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment -
voting rights act of 1965
signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans f -
malcom X assassinated
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united farm workers california delano grape strike
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miranda v. arizona
was a decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5–4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory -
thurgood marshall appointed to supreme court
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six day war
Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria -
tet offensive
Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched -
my lai massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968. -
martin luther king jr. assassinated
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tinker v. des moines
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vietnamization
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woodstock music festival
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draft lottery
conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950 -
apollo 11
spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
manson family murders
was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces -
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richard nixon
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invasion of combodia
military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
kent state shootings
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enviormental protection agency epa
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pentagon papers
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26 amendment
18 to vote -
policy of detente begins
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jimmy carter
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water gate scandal
occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters -
title IX
, as a federal civil rights law in the United States of America, was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 -
nixon visits china 1972
) was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China -
war powers resolution
s a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
roe v. wade
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas affirmed in part, reversed in part. -
OPEC oil embargo
imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations. -
first cell phones
when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company -
engaged spieces act
provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
united states v. nixon
United States Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape -
ford pardons nixon
which granted his predecessor Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president -
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gerald ford
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fall of saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975. -
bill gates starts microsoft
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
national rifle associate NRA lobbying begins
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steve jobs starts apple
set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I -
community reinvestment act of 1977
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camp david accords
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egypt israel peace treaty
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iran hostage crisis
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conservative resurgence
hile its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals. -
trickle down economics
also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society -
war on drugs
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AIDS epidemic
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sandra day o connor appointed to U.S supreme court
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ronald reagen
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marines in lebanon
US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. -
iran contra affair
referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
the oprah winfrey show first airs
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mr.gorbachev tear down this wall
a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier -
end of cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
berlin wall falls 1989
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
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george h. w. bush
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germany reunification 1990
in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, -
iraq invades kuwait
2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country. -
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persian gulf war 1990
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soviet union collapses
Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. -
operation desert storm 1991
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mrs. adcox born 1991
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rodney king
African-American tax ifter a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991. -
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bill clinton
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NAFTA founded 1994
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contract with america
elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats. -
bill clintons impeacheament
was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. -
USA patriot act
Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. -
war on terror
international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001. -
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george w. bush
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war in afghanistan
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9/11
September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
cindy born
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NASA MARS rover mission begins
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iraq war
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facebook launched
American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. -
hurricane katrina
Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas on August 23, 2005, as the result of an interaction between a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. The storm strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina on the morning of August 24. -
saddam hussein exucated
after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. -
iphone realeased 2007
, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. -
american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009
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hilary clinton appointed u.s secratery of states
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sonia sotomayor appointedto u.s supreme court
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barrack obama
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arab spring
was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North -
osama bin laden killed
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sapce x falcon 9
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donald trump elected president
