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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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united nations formed
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early cold war
1.containment
2.arms race, space race
3.USSR
4.communism
5.domino theory -
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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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
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civil rights era
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rosenbergs trials
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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korean war
1950-1953 -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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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
begins undeclared war in veitnam -
24th amendment
Abolishes the poll tax -
Civil Rights Act
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
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker vs 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
moved the voting age from 21 to 18 -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
war is power act
law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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fall of the saigon, marks the end of the veitnam 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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1900's-21st century