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organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations,
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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he North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.
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Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
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was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" -
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Married couple convicted spying and working with the Soviet union
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prevents elected officials from being elected more than twice
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the United States successfully detonated “Mike,”
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis.
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a political social campaign against racial segregation on the public transit
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a political social campaign against racial segregation on a public transit
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The Soviet Union successfully released a satellite into orbit
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Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students' effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education
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Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall—the Berlin Wall—to permanently close off access to the West.
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a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles
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A confrontation between the US and Cuba over nuclear weapons
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a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington
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the 35th President was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.min Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, -
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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begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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A social act was passed granting people with a lower income access to medical care
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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A major escalation and one of the largest military of the Vietnam war.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and activist was Assassinated.
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An expansion of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, popularly known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination and the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.
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First known school district to defy students of the 1st admendment
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was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
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Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland.
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A defense made by Vietnam task force a small portion of reports were leaked to the press
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People 18 older are granted the right to vote
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a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money. -
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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a scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.
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North Vietnamese forces took control of the capital of South Vietnam
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a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978,
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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County
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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students.
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a scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration
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