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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
Free land for 5 years if you get your land to keep you alive -
13th Amendment
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
railroad completed -
Industrialization Begins to Boom
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15th Amendment
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Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
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Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone -
Reconstruction Ends
Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south -
Jim Crow Laws Start In South
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invention
Thomas Edison invented it -
Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years -
Pendleton Act
Established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation -
Dawes Act
indian land for sale -
Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
Describes the responsibility of philanthropy to help the their surroundings -
Chicagos Hull House
jane addams built these mansions to help the people in the tenement houses -
Klondike Gold Rush
Migration of prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada in search for gold -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
How the other half lives
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Influence of Sea Power Upton History
a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
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Progressive Era
fix the unfairness get equal rights -
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Imperialism
win land -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Annexation of Hawaii
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Spanish American War
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Open Door Policy
free trade -
Assassination Of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
political party was a republican party and was in the progressive party (the bull moose party) The 3 C's trust buster protecting the consumer -
Wright Brothers Airplanes
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
trade goods -
The Jungle
upton sinclair wrote this to regulate meat factorization -
Pure Food and Drug Act
act that was pass to introduce sanitation to working environments -
Model T
cheap car everyone could buy -
NAACP
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William Howard Taft
Republican Party
Domestic Policies; tried the 3C's 16th/17th amendment -
16th Amendment
collect taxes -
Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
Democrat Party
Domestic Policies; Clayton Anti-Trust Act, National Parks Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment -
17th Amendment
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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World War I
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Sink of The Lusitania
Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland -
National Parks System
protect parks -
Zimmerman Telegram
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Russia Revolution
Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
U.S entry into WWI
Kill innocent people sink of the Lithuanian -
Battle of Argonne Forest
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Armistice
Document that shows the peace between countries stop fighting -
Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
blamed germany for everything -
18th Amendment
no alcohol -
19th Amendment
women's suffrage -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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Harlem Renaissance
Parties after parties jazzzz -
Red Scare
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Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was the period of Western society and Western culture that occurred during and around the 1920s. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Scandal getting money in exchanged -
Joseph Stalin Leaders USSR
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial -
Mein Kampf published
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Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
morgans crazy plan -
Stocks Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
great depression starts -
hoovervilles
shanty towns -
Smooth-Hawley Tariff
an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored -
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Great Depression
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100,000 Banks Have Failed
black Tuesday -
Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes -
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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
droughts -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
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Kristallnancht
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Hitler invades Poland
wanted to power Europe -
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World War II
World War II also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war -
German Blitkrierg attacks
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navajo Codes Talkers
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Pearl Harbor
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
boot camps for Japanese -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
jews recover freedom -
Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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United Nations (UN) Formed
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order -
Germany Divided
Germany was cut between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany. Germany was stripped of its war gains and lost territories in the east to Poland and the Soviet Union. -
Nuremberg Trial
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Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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22nd Amendment
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The 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 Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine -
Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $140 billion in 2017 dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
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Arab-Israeli War Begins
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NATO Formed
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Kim II-sung invades South Korea
A few dissident students have described North Korea's invasion of the South as a response to the South's aggression. The fact is that Kim Il-sung in the North wanted to unite Korea – just as Rhee wanted to unite Korea – and Kim chose to invade. Kim Il-sung sent his military south across the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950 -
UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River - the border with china
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Chinese forced cross Yalu and enter korean war
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Korean War
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Armistice Signed
Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed, it came into force at 11 a.m. Paris time on 11 November 1918 ("the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month") and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not formally a surrender. -
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warren court
Warren Court decisions. The Warren Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States during which Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. -
Hernandez v. Texas
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Brown v. Board of Education
landmark 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 minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
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Warsaw Pact Formed
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states -
Rosa Parks Arrested
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Vietnam war
the Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Sputnik I
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
The Chicano Mural Movement began as an artistic renaissance in the U.S. Southwest during the 1960s. Unlike in Mexico, its first murals were not commissioned, promoted or sponsored by the government, companies or individuals; the Chicano artists instead painted on neighborhood buildings, schools, and churches. -
Affirmative Action
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Mapp v. Ohio
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," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts -
Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a book written by Betty Friedan -
Gildeon v. Wainwright
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George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
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March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The 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, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
24th Amendment
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Escobedo v. illinios
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Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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United Farm Worker's California Delano Grape Strike
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Malcom X Assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, -
Miranda v. Arizona
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Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson successfully nominated Marshall to succeed retiring Associate Justice Tom C. Clark -
Six Day War
The Six-Day War also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria. Relations between Israel and its neighbours had never fully normalised -
Tet Offensive
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My Lai Massacre
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Tinker v. Des Moiness
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Manson Family Murders
Charles Manson's followers were young and zealously committed. Now, 48 years after the brutal series of killings, the cult leader is dead, and most of the "Manson Family" of followers, who carried out the murders, are still in prison. Manson had ordered the killings, but didn't participate -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
Vietnamization
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Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
n December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. -
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Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cabodia
The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion and the Cambodian Invasion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
Kent State Shooting
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing -
Pentagon Papers
he Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. -
26th Amendment
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Policy of Detent Begins
Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev -
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He previously was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, after two terms in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. -
Nixon Visits China
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Watergate Scandal
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Title IX
Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance -
War Powers Resolution
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Roe v. Wade
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Engaged Species Act
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First Cell-Phones
A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. -
OPEC Oil Embargo
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United States v. Nixon
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Ford Pardons Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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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 (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist -
National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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Steve Jobs Starts Apple
In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I. To generate the $1,350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator. -
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
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Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. -
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Conservative Resurgence
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Sandra Day O'Connor Appointed o U.S. Supreme Court
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"Trickle Down Economics"
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War on Drugs
War on Drugs is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade. -
AIDS Epidemic
IV/AIDS is a global pandemic. As of 2016, approximately 36.7 million people are living with HIV globally. In 2016, approximately half are men and half are women -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were acts of terrorism that occurred on October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War. -
The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. -
"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
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Berlin Wall Falls
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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 -
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George H.W. Bush
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Germany Reunification
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Iraq Invades Kuwait
On August 9, Operation Desert Shield, the American defense of Saudi Arabia, began as U.S. forces raced to the Persian Gulf. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, built up his occupying army in Kuwait to about 300,000 troops -
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Persian Gulf War
The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition -
Soviet Union Collapses
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Operation Desert Storm
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Ms. Adcox Born
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Rodney King
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) 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. George Holliday, a witness -
24th amendment
end poll taxes -
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat -
Contract with America
Republicans gained this majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general. -
NAFTA Founded
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and entered into force on 1 January 1994 in order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America. -
O.J. Simpsons "Trial of the Century"
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Bill Clintons Impeachement
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USA Patriot Act
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War on Terror
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9/11 (September 11,2001)
The 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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George W. Bush
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War in Afghanistan
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NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
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Iraq War
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. -
Facebook Launched
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Hurricane Katrina
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 -
Saddam Hussein Executed
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Iphone Released
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America Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. ... If confirmed, Sotomayor, 54, would be the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice and the third woman to serve on the high court. -
Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
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. She was preceded in office by Condoleezza Rice, and succeeded by John Kerry. -
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Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
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Osama Bin Laden Killed
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group -
Space X Falcon 9
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. SpaceX believes rocket reusability is the key breakthrough needed to reduce the cost of access to space -
Donald Trump Elected President
