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Early American History
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Civil War / Reconstruction
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The Glided Age
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The Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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United Nations formed
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural labourer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him. -
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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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 Crisis
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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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24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax
the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Tet Offensive
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
Containment: tried to prevent the spread of communism
Space Race: a competition between US and USSR aiming to show superiority in spaceflight
The USSR: consisted of Russia and 14 surrounding countries.
Communism: is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
It is a federal civil rights law that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance. -
War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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al-Qaeda
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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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1990s-21st Century
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
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President Clinton’s Impeachment
19 December 1998 – 12 February 1999
President Bill Clinton became the second president in history to be impeached. He was charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing. -
Presidential Election of 2000
Bush, won the disputed election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore, the incumbent vice president. It was the fourth of five American presidential elections, and the first in 112 years, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest elections in US history. -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. -
Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
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USA PATRIOT Act
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Hurricane Katrina
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Barak Obama
US President 2009-2017
He was the first African American president