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Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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(FREE) Ended slavery
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People that are born in the U.S are considered (CITIZENS)
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first transcontinental railroad in the United States, which linked the Union Pacific on the east and the Central Pacific on the west.
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All African men have the right to vote (VOTE)
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Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone
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Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877
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Thomas Edison patented -- first in 1879 and then a year later in 1880 and began commercializing his incandescent light bulb.
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U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years
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U.S federal law requiring federal jobs to be awarded on the basis of merit.
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Argued that very wealthy men like him had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society. (Philanthropy)
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Law that forbade any organization with free trade (prohibiting monopolies)
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A publication by photojournalist Jacob Riis which documented the filthy living conditions in New York City tenements and slums in the 1800s.
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Allowed segregation in public facilities ("SEPARATE BUT EQUAL").
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United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
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Foreign policy that establishes that all countries equally trade with China
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Marks the Year that the Wright Brothers Invented the First. Buoyant over the success of their 1902 glider, the Wright brothers were no longer content to merely add to the growing body of aeronautical knowledge;
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The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. That permits cheap and faster international trade.
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The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by Congress with the main purpose to ban foreign and interstate trade in contaminated or mislabeled food and drug products.
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British ocean liner carrying Americans that was sunk off the coast of Ireland by German U-Boats in 1915
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Signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, a federal government agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties.
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1917 message British intercepted from the German government to the Mexican government offering German support if Mexico declared war against the U.S.
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1917 uprising that destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of communism and the Soviet Union in Russia
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A major part of the final Allied offensive of WW1that stretched along the entire Western Fron with lasted 47 days and brought an end to WW1. Largest battle in U.S military history.
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A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace plans.
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Made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States (Prohibition Temperance)
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Women's suffrage
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After WW1, when Harding was president, the U.S returned to isolationism. The U.S economy bloomed .
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A period in 1920's when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes.
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Caused hysteria and intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America.
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Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption.
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The trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools.
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Adolf Hitler wrote this book. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929,
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Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley
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Federal government spending program that aimed to create jobs while improving the nation's infrastructure.
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The agency covers a wide range of social security services, such as disability, retirement and survivors' benefits.
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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing,
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To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people.
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"Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery). Use of surprise, speed and superiority in firepower.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941
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Group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II.
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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.
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In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.
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The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June
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Law passed that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
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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,
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Is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. ... On September 2, 1945,
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United Nations is a global organization that brings together its member states to confront common challenges, manage shared responsibilities and exercise collective action in an enduring quest for a peaceful, inclusive and sustainably developing world, in conformity with the principles of justice and international law
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Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.
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President Truman’s foreign policy of financially supporting Greece and Turkey to help them fight Soviet communist threats
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U.S. gave over $13 billion ($140 in current dollar) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII
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The supply of West Berlin in Germany by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948.
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Was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization A defensive military alliance with the West European nations and the US.
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The execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War.
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Formal agreement that U.S. and North Korea signed to stop fighting in order to negotiate a peace treaty (not necessarily the end of a war)
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Was a landmark the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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an agricultural worker, was indicted for the murder of Joe Espinoza by an all-Anglo (white) grand jury in Jackson County, Texas. Claiming that Mexican-Americans were barred from the jury commission that selected juries, and from petit juries, Hernandez' attorneys tried to quash the indictment.
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The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955.
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After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a city bus. Dr. Martin Luther King led a boycott of city busses.
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
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Created by Soviet Union, first satellite to orbit the Earth launched in 1957 causing the “space race”
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has been somewhat maligned for representing an idealized, view of the 1950's (although half the episodes aired in the next decade) where everyone is in his place... the sons go to the school dances and participate in sports and take the girls out on nice, proper dates
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Group of nine African American students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 but were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention od federal troops sent by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history.
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failed military invasion of Cuba try to overthrow communist governor Fidel Castro.
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Signed by Presindent J.F.K , where U.S American citizens provided social and economic aid to other developing countries
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Policy of favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. ("Positive Descrimination")
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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," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions
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Comfortation between U.S and U.S.S.R. concerning missle deployment in cuba
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On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton opens the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas.
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Book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
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Gideon filed a habeas corpus petition in the Florida Supreme Court and argued that the trial court's decision violated his constitutional right to be represented by counsel.
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Massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic programs which aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
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Danny Escobedo was arrested and taken to a police station for questioning. Over several hours, the police refused his repeated requests to see his lawyer. Escobedo's lawyer sought unsuccessfully to consult with his client. Escobedo subsequently confessed to murder.
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Abolished poll taxes
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This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48
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Authorized the president to use military power agaunst North Vietnam
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting, such as outlawing literacy tests which were historically used to disenfranchise racial minorities.
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This case represents the consolidation of four cases, in each of which the defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation.
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The Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies were decisively defeated, and Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.Established Israel as the dominant regional military power.
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The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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Mass murder of between 347 to 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam by U.S Army soldiers, some bodies were raped and mutilated.
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Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Behalf of Student Expression. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam.
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End U.S involvement in the Vietnam War by equipping and training South Vietnamese forces while steadily reducing the number of U.S combat troops.
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Agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress
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Unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
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Period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
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The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
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Federal law that prohibits gender discrimination.
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The Watergate scandal happened when President Richard Nixon, a Republican, was tied to a crime in which broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and George McGovern (the Presidential candidate). Nixon's helpers listened to phone lines and secret papers were stolen.
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Legalized abortion in U.S.
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Provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened
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OPEC 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.
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A federal law intendted to check the president's power to commit the U.S armed conflict without the consent of congress
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Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone
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Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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Within two years Bill Gates dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue his business, Microsoft,
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On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne established the Apple computer company and soon introduced the Apple-1 computer.
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Capture of the capital of South Vietnam by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces ended the Vietnam war and started reunification of Vietnam under a communist regime.
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(NRA) is and American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.lobbying has usually been understood as activity by paid professionals to try to influence key legislators and executives
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Was designed to encourage comercial banks and savings associations to help low- and moderate- income neigborhoods .
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Camp David Accords: Called for a formal peace treaty to be signed between Israel and Egypt,signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.
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The Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords.
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The brewing conservative resurgence wasn't just about cutting taxes, but also reducing government intervention in the economy and reinjecting religion into politics.
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Trickle-down economics , is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment and benefit society at large. It is a form of laissez-faire capitalism
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Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his wife, Nancy Reagan, began a highly-publicized anti-drug campaign, coining the slogan "Just Say No.
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Sandra Day O' Conor is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.
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President Ronald Reagan sends Marines to Lebanon on a peacekeeping mission that turned into a massive terrorist attack in Lebanon that killed 241 American servicemembers
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President Reagan authorized the off-the-books sale of stolen weapons from the Pentagon to Iran in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras
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is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Tear down this wall!" is 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 which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
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The Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.
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The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city,
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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was largely motivated by its desire to take control over the latter's vast oil reserves. Led by Saddam Hussein
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.
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A military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.
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Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991
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The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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The Contract with America was a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994
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The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster, and actor Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown
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The impeachment process of Bill Clinton 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
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Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Interfere and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) on October 26, 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11
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is an 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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he 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
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the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars.
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California founder Mark Zukerberg
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Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is tied with Hurricane Harvey of 2017 as the costliest tropical cyclone on record.
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Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity
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Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention.
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is an economic stimulus bill created to help the United States economy its purpose, was developed to: To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery
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Hillary Clinton served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the Foreign policy of Barack Obama.
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President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter.
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The Arab Spring also referred to as Arab revolutions was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East
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Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011
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Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. Falcon 9 is the first orbital class rocket capable of reflight.
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Donald Trump. Donald John Trump is the 45th. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
