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Decleration of independence was signed and passed
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1- Containment
2- Arms/ Space Race
3-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
4- Communism
5- Domino Theory -
US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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Program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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Sweatt confronted the Jim Crow laws when they were put into place, and this challenged the separate but equal laws that had also been put into place.
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a trail that found that excluding someone of a particular race from a jury of a person of the same race is illegal, because it is not equal or fair to take that away.
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This man was not allowed into a certain college because he was black and the schools only accepted whites. This went to court as he should have been allowed admittance to that college.
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1955-1956, after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat, tons of people began to boycott the buses and find other transport as a peaceful protest.
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The little rock 9 was a group of 9 black people that were discriminated against and told to go to a separate school then whites, but after court and state ruling they were allowed into the white schools.
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The bay of Pigs was an invasion that occurred in Cuba to try and disarm the Cubans of their Nuclear weapons.
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The Berlin Wall was built to stop people from leaving east Berlin because it was communist. This separated East and West Berlin and the two sides could not communicate.
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When Cuba started stockpiling missiles and the US had to intervene.
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This amendment stopped people from having to pay a poll tax when they wanted to vote. This was put in place so that poor people would not be able to vote if they did not have money to pay.
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MLK gave this speech at the march on Washington to protest for equal rights.
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JFK was assassinated in Dallas Texas during a parade in his open motorcade.
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Begins an undeclared war in Vietnam.
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.
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Two entities were created to help people with health problems and old age.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
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Turning point in the Vietnam war, where the Americans showed a chance of success.
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Martin Luther King was assassinated while giving a speech
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prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became famous for the first men to walk on the moon
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Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States public schools.
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Shooting of unarmed college kids by the national guard during vietnam
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The Pentagon Papers were leaked from the Pentagon and the American public had a good idea of what was really going on in Vietnam
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Changed voting age from 21 to 18.
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Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.
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This law limited the Presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.
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A large scandal of illegal activities such as spying, altering information, and other things which was run by the Nixon administration
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The fall of Saigon, a major city in Vietnam marked the end of the war as troops invaded through all areas and US helicopters pulled people out of the city to save their lives.
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Peace document signed with Egypt after a week of conversation at Camp David
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Americans were taken hostage in Tehran at the US Embassy after Iranian muslims took over the Embassy and took them hostage for 444 days.
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A nuclear reactor melted and caused a nuclear leak and cities had to be evacuated in Pennsylvania after the largest radiation leak in US History.
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Political Scandal that occurred during the Reagan Administration.
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