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A rivalry form of government to Democracy during the Cold War. This form of government established a system in which goods are owned in common by the state (government) and are available to all as needed.
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
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Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.
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Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
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Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
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The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
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Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.
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Abolishes the poll tax.
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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.
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Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
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Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
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Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old.
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Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.
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Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.
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It requires the Federal Reserve and other federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods.
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It changed the way people thought of dating. People had to be more careful on who they wanted to be with.
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She is a retired attorney, politician, and the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a position she held from 1981 until her retirement in 2006.
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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union.
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