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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 1
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Roaring 20's
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment- The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
Arms Race/Space Race- Like a competition between the U.S. and the USSR to space, and for weapons.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
Communism - Equality, everything is government run.
Domino Theory-Political event in one country will affect all -
Truman Doctorine
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 was Established
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenburg Trials
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22nd Amendment Ratification
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First Hydrogen 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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Montgomery Bus Boycott After Rosa Parks Arrest
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USSR Launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Tet Offensive
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TInker V. Des Moines
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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
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War Powers Act
Law limited the Presidents right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate Sandle, Leading to Nixon's Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, Marks End of Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990's-21st Century