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Early American Hisory
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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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Early Cold War
Containment- The US trying to stop the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race- The race tp get high grade weapons between US and USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Communist country in cold war
Communism- Complete control over the people with a dictator
Domino Theory- The idea that one country will have effects on the ones around it -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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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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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Golf of tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicade Established
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Tet Offensive
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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 Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved voting from 21 to 18 -
War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Wategate Scandal, which leads to nixons resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks end of vietnam war
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Camp Dvid Accords
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Iran Hostage crisis begin
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Three mile island distastor
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Iran hstage crisis ends
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Iran Contra affair start
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Iran contra affair end
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1990s-21st Century