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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, a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
2)Arm race/Space race, a race to determine which country's technology is more advanced.
3)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia.
4)Communism, is a social, political and economic ideology and movement.
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22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
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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
1.Great Society. A set of domestic programs in the United States to elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
2.Thurgood Marshall. First American lawyer and civil rights activist who served the Supreme Court
3.Black Panthers. A black nationalist and socialist party made up of African Americans
4.Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience. Doing rotests or political noncooperation, while being nonviolent
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Rosenbergs trial
Julius and his wife Rosenberg Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information, and was executed in 1953. -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
The bomb "Ivy Mike" was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion. -
Korean War
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Hernandez v. Texas
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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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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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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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24th Amendment
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Tet Offensive
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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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 the Cold War
1.OPEC
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
2.Sandra Day O’Connor
The first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
3.Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
encourage depository institutions to meet the credit needs of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
4.AIDS Epidemic
Virus that is considered by some authors a global pandemic.
5.Star Wars (NOT the movies)
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
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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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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the 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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1990s-21st Century