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early american history
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civil war/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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great depression
hoovervilles: poor town built by unemployed people
the new deal: programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations from fdr
causes of the great depression: over production, over use of credit, over speculation, stock market crash, bank panic
court packing: adding more seats to supreme court, fdr
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adolf hitler invades poland, starting world war 2
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world war 2
island hopping: took islands, establish military base
liberation of concentration camps: allies saw camps, dismantled them
dwight eisenhower: supreme commander of allied forces
douglas macarthur: american general, led u.n. forces in korean war
chester nimitz: commanded pacific fleet
navajo code talkers: secret communication
tuskegee airmen: african american military pilots
flying tigers: american volunteer pilots
the manhattan project: first nuclear weapons
rosie the riveter: women in factories -
attack on pearl harbor
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battle of midway
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bataan death march
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executive order 9066
incarceration of japanese americans for the duration of world war 2 -
"d day" - invasion of normandy
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g.i. bill
gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
united nations formed
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early cold war
containment: contain and stop the spread of communism
arms race/space race: compete against the soviet union
the union of soviet socialist republics: the soviet union,
communism: a classless society where means of production are owned and controlled by the public
domino theory: if one country falls to communism, the surrounding countries will also fall -
the atomic bomb "little boy" is dropped on hiroshima, japan
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the atomic bomb "fat man" is dropped on nagasaki, japan, ending world war 2
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22nd amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
truman doctrine
us policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
berlin airlift
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marshall plan
program to help european countries rebuild after world war 2 -
nato established
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korean war
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civil rights era
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rosenbergs trials
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first h-bomb detonated by the united states
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vietman war
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jonas salk invents the polio vaccine
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interstate highway act
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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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tet offensive
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tinker vs. des moines
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end of the cold war
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pentagon papers leaked
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26th amendment
moved the voting age 21 years old to 18 years old -
war powers act
law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
fall of saigon, marks the end of vietman war
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1990s - 21st century