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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 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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Early Cold War
Containment, Arms Race/Space Race, The Union of Soviet Socialist, Republics, Communism , Domino Theory -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment Ratified
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO Established
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Sweatt vs. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez vs Texas
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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
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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 Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech
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John F Kennedy Assasinated
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Gulf of Tonkin
begins undeclared war in vietnam -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
24th ammendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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MLK Jr assasinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, leads to Nixons Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of 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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1990s 21st Century