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American Civil War
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Homestead act
law that granted free land in the Great Plains -
13th Amendment
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
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Transcontinental railroad completed
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Industrialization begins to boom
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15th Amendment
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Boss tweed rise at Tammany hall
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Telephone invented
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Reconstruction ends
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Jim Crow Laws Start in South
enforced racial segregation in the South -
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The Gilded Age
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Light bulb invented
The light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison -
Third wave of immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Law that prohibits Chinese to work for 10 years -
Pendleton Act
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Dawes act
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Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth
A book that Carnegie wrote, it practices philanthropy -
Chicago's Hull House
Was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams -
Klondike gold rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Wanted to get rid of monopolies -
How the Other Half Lives
Studies of tenement houses at NYC by Jacob Riis -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
book published by Alfred T Mahan -
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
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Plessy v. Ferguson
“separate but equal” segregation -
Annexation of Hawaii
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Spanish American War
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Open Door Policy
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Assassination of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political part: republican and progressive “Bull Moose” party
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Wright Brother’s Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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The Jungle
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Pure Food and Drug act
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model-t
first affordable automobile -
NAACP
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William Howard taft
Political party: republican
Domestic policy: 3c’s 16th/17th amendment -
16th Amendment
congress can collect taxes -
Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
Political party: democratic
Domestic policy: Clayton anti-trust act, National parks service, federal reserve act,18th/19th amendment -
17th amendment
People directly elect senators -
National Parks Systems
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18th amendment
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19th amendment
women's suffrage -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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harlem renassance
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red scare
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Roaring Twenties
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teapot dome scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922 -
joseph stalin leads ussr
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scopes 'Monkey' trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution -
Mein Kampf published
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler -
charles lindbergh's trans-atlantic flight
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st. valentine's day massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder in Chicago of seven men of the North Side gang during the Prohibition Era.[2] It happened on February 14, and resulted from the struggle between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang -
stock market crashes 'black tuesday'
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the great depression
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hoovervilles
was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover -
smoot-hawley tariff
otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley -
1000,000 banks have failed
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agriculture adjustment administration(AAA)
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federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)
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public works administration (PWA)
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The supposed one thousand-year Reich had started. But it would be another 19 months before Hitler achieved absolute power. -
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franklin d. roosevelt
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new deal programs
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The Holocaust
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dust bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture -
social security administration (SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
During the Sino-Japanese War, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces, and the Chinese government flees to Hankow, further inland along the Yangtze River. -
Kristallnacht
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Hitler invades Poland
Nazi Germany invaded Poland and caused the WWII -
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
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Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. -
Navajo Code Talkers
estimate indicates that at the outbreak of World War II, fewer than 30 non-Navajo could understand the language. Page one of Navajo ... The Navajo code talkers were commended for their skill, speed, and accuracy demonstrated throughout the war. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. -
Bataan Death March
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Invasion of Normandy (D-DAY)
The following major units were landed on D-Day (6 June 1944). A more detailed order of battle for D-Day itself can be found at Normandy landings and List of Allied forces in the Normandy Campaign. -
GI Bill
provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively -
Victory over Japan / Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
United Nations (UN) Formed
Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. -
Germany Divided
Germany was cut between the two global blocs in the East and West -
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
Mao declared the establishment of the PRC, which signified the end of the Chinese Revolution -
22nd Amendment
limits the number of times one can be elected to the office of President of the United States -
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the cold war
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Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
first major international crises of the Cold War -
• Arab-Israeli War Begins
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NATO Formed
is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries -
Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korea War
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Kim II-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River -the border with China
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Korean War
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1950s Prosperity
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Armistis Signed
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Warren Court
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Hernandez v. Texas
"the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard by the supreme court -
Brown v. Board of Education
landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
He helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 -
Warsaw Pact Formed
collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states -
Polio Vaccine (1955)
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Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
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Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Elvis Presley First Hit Song
As "Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1 -
Sputnik I
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
o in the early 1980's the show was airing in most large, major, and medium TV markets. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Little Rock Nine
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
First debate aired on tv -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba -
Peace Corps Formed
a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” -
Mapp v. Ohio
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Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores -
Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In it, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states are required under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" -
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
March on Washington
he March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Escobedo v. Illinois
case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. -
The Great Society
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
nternational confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities -
24th Amendment
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Malcom X Assassinated
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Miranda v. Arizona
This case represents the consolidation of which Miranda confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation. -
Six Day War
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Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
first african american in supreme court -
Tet Offensive
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My Lai Massacre
Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
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Manson Family Murders
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Apollo 11
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Vietnamization
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
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Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War -
Kent State Shootings
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment -
Pentagon Papers
the Nixon Administration attempted to prevent the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing materials belonging to a classified Defense Department -
26th Amendment
limit age to 18 to vote -
Policy of Détente Begins
is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -
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Jimmy Carter
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Title IX
comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
Watergate Scandal
major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, -
Nixon Visits China
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War Powers Resolution
federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Roe v. Wade
a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. -
Engaged Species Act
provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range -
OPEC Oil Embargo
imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations. -
First Cell-Phones
Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone -
United States v. Nixon
Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings -
Ford Pardons Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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Fall of Saigon
North Vietnam captured Saigon, the capital of south vietnam -
Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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Steve Jobs Starts Apple
obs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, -
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (1977)
encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods -
Camp David Accords
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Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and witnessed by United States president Jimmy Carter. -
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Conservative Resurgence
It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals. -
“Trickle Down Economics”
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AIDS Epidemic
AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981. -
Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
first woman appointed in the supreme court -
War on Drugs
War on Drugs is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade. -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb -
Iran-Contra Affair
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The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier -
Berlin Wall Falls
both east and west Germany can visit in each other side. -
End of Cold War
A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR. -
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George H. W. Bush
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Iraq Invades Kuwait
2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, -
Germany Reunification
the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany -
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Persian Gulf War
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Operation Desert Storm
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Ms. Adcox Born
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Rodney King
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Soviet Union Collapses
officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union -
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA Founded
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Contract with America
The Contract with America was the conservative action of more than 300 Republican Congressional candidates who signed it. -
O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League -
Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on 1998 on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice -
I was born
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USA Patriot Act
“Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act -
War on Terror
international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 -
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George W. Bush
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War in Afghanistan
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9/11 (September 11, 2001)
19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States -
NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
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Iraq War
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Facebook Launched
Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone -
Saddam Hussein Executed
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Iphone Released
The history of iPhone began with a request from Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs to the company's engineers -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
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Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter -
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Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
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Osama Bin Laden Killed
he was killed by the US Naval Special Warfare -
Space X Falcon 9
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Donald Trump Elected President
