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Representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference.
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- Containment: American policy resisting further expansion of communism around the world
- Arms Race/Space Race: competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the US and USSR
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia
- Communism: system of government where all property is public things are given by the government according to their needs.
- Domino Theory: if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, they all would
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany.
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Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.
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Formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
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North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
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Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”.
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Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information.
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
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U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion.
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
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political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik.
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The Little Rock Nine enrolled at 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 (1954), which had declared segregated schooling to be unconstitutional.
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a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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The Wall was built to prevent East Germans from fleeing and stop an economically disastrous migration of workers.
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Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax.
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MLK Jr. called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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The 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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Begins 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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Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. All states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories have Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
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A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
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Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.
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Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
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Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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Was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
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Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.
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Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.
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Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.
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