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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
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World War II
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United Nations Formed
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
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Communism
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22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
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Containment
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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Arms Race/ Space Race
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Korean War
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Sweatt v Painter
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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
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:
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Jonas Salk Invents the Police 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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OPEC
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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 Missle 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 Toklin Resolution
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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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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First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v Des Moines
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Kent State University shooting
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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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Title IX
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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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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
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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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Sandra Day O'Connor
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AIDS Epidemic
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Star Wars - Strategic Defense Initiative
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-211st Century