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Early American History
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Civil War/Recontruction
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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
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Containment
This was a policy that was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. -
22nd Amendment
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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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Domino Theory
A policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. -
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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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
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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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Arms Race/Space in the Cold War
The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, (USSR) and (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. -
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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24th Amendment
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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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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 -
Medicare and Medicaid establishment
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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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Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United Staes Public Schools. -
First Man on the Moon
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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 Power Act
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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks and 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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1990's - 21st Century
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
During the opening stages of World War II, the Soviet Union created (the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War) by invading and then annexing several countries. -
Communism
A philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society.