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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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Big 5
Containment- Stopping the spread of communism.
Arms/space race- A race in which the USSR was the first by sending the sputnik but American beat them to the moon.
USSR- Communist party leader by Hitler and other leaders based out of Germany.
Communism- Society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd Amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation. -
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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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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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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24th Amendment
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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 established
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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
Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States 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
Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs. -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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1990s-21st Century
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
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Big 5
Barack Obama- 44th president and First African American President.
al-Qaeda- Awful terrorist group that made attacks on America
No child left behind- authorized the elementary and secondary Education Act
President Clinton Impeachment- 2nd president to ever be impeached
President Election of 2000- Considered one of the closet elections ever and first time someone won the election but lost the popular vote. -
USA PATRIOT Act
Tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism. -
Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
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Hurricane Katrina
