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Communism
society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
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Civil War/ American 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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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
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22nd Amendment:
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Containment
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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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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Domino Theory
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Space Race
competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. -
USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines:
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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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
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Early American History
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1990's-21st century