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The first permanent english settlement in North America. Formed by the Virginia Company of London, later became Virginia.
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Document where they agreed to obey laws created for the general good. Pledged loyalty to god and the king.
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The first elected assembly in the New World. Still operating today as the " General Assembly."
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Most labor needs were filled by the 1700's by the forcible importance of Africans. Were mostly African Americans !
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Colonist and British soldiers in Boston competed over jobs. Anti-british demonstrators formed and british troops fired into the mob and 5 colonist died.
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England put restrictions on tea. Colonist boarded tea ships and threw tea into the water.
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Meeting of representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia. Was taken place in Philadelphia.
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British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. Minutemen assembled.
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Created the continental army and George Washington was the general.
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England acknowledged American Independence. The United States' boundaries: Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River
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England and the American colonist fought against France and the Indian. Fighting for land west of the Appalachian Moutians and in Canada.
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England gained the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and in Canada from France.
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England prohibted colonist from settling west of the appalachians, because they didnt have any protection from Indian attacks.
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Taxes were placed on legal documents. Colonist resisted this act !
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Issued by the Continental Congress, written by Thomas Jefferson.
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French general, Marquis de Lafeyette develoed a plan./ The french navy blocked the exit of the Chesapeake Bay. American and French surrounded Cornwallis/the British. Cornwallis surrended.
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The 13 newly independent states united into one country, known as the United States of America.
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Time period during which the U.S. was under the Articles of Confedertion.
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Established a plan for surveying the western lands.
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Called to settle disputes among states over commerce, but only 5 states show up.
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Debt-ridden farmers in Massuchusetts rebel due to high taxes.
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Held in Philadelphia and the key leaders were George Washington and James Madison.
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Created a 2-house congress, each states gets 2 senators and representation based on population.
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Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when dtermining a states representation in House of Representatives.
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Provided the process for the creation and admission of new states.
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Many states determined a Bill of Rights be added befor ratifying, it was approved with the prise of a Bill of Rights.
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George Washington was the 1st president and served 2 terms.
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This act set up the court system.
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Adam's became president in the election of 1796. John Adam's was a federalist.
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Thomas Jefferson was a democratic-republican and when he defeated Adam's it was the first peaceful tranfer of partys.
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Invented by Eli Whitney and made cotton-growing very profittable.
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Indians were forced off their lands into smaller and smaller reservations.
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Voters elect Senators now. (not state legislatures)
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Plan under which Indians would be forced to adopt American culture.
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Carnegie Steel Plant.
Plant manager Henry Frick called the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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Founder was Samuel Gompers.
"Craft union" only skilled workers from multiple industries.
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Knights of labor protest in chicage the lead into bombs going off near police and resulted in 8 strikers getting arrested.
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It used the government to institute reforms to fix problems cause by industerialization.
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Women gain the right to vote.
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Strong leader of the women's suffrage movement.
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Expanded Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Outlaws price-fixing.
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this court case declared a law unconstitutional. It established the power of judicial law.
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Jefferson brought this land from France and it doubled the size of the U.S.
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Caused by British interference with American ships and British aid to indians in the west. All causes lead to the War of 1812.
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This court case uphelded the federal governments rights to establish a bank. It established the doctrine of implied powers.
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Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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This court overturned a steamboat monopoly. This confirmed the federal governments power over commerce.
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This divided LA Purchase at 36:30 and the North beacame free of slaves and the South was full of slaves.
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Created by president Monroe and said the west was different from Europe and the U.S. wouldnt interfere in Europe affairs.
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tried to curb American power in Hawaii
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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed the evils of slavery and it was a widely read book. Increased support in the North for abolition.
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A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taking into free territory by his owner. This case overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery.
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The main issue was slavery and Abraham Lincoln, a replublican, won.
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Lee went north, lost at antietam and Licoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The proclamation freed slave "rebelling states" only. Abolishing slavery was a new northern war aim.
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Fort Sumter was in SC but it remained under union control. Conferderates fired on union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter.
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Lee pushed North into Pennsylvania, it was a 3 day battle. Lee had to retreat.
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Was held in Mississippi, Grant won and this cut the confederacy in half.
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A short speech by Lincoln, dedicating the cemetery.
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Lee surrendered and urged Southerners to accept surrender and unite.
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, shortly after the war.
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The process of restoring s-states to union, and determining the position of African Americans.
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Abolished slavery
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Put south under military occupation.
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Prohibited states from denying equal rights to any american,
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Voting rights for african americans.
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Northern and western Europe.
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Southern and eastern Europe.
Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
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Republican- Ruthereord B. Haye
Democratic- Samuelk J. Tilden
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Established seperate facilities for whites & blacks. Black facilities were inferior.
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Banned entry of almost all chinese.
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stronger countries extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker countries
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The goal of this was to americanize the Indians.
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The founder was Eugene V. Debs and this labor was specifically for railraod workers.
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Income disparity
Lavish lifestyle of the rich
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prevented any business structure that restrained trade. the goaal was to outlaw trusts
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By pullman railroad workers.
Started nationwide RR boycott.
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American journalist that sensationalize Spanish brutality in Cuba
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S.C. said " seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th Admandment. Upheld Jim Crow Laws of segregation.
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Founder of this was Uriah Stevens.
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Founder was Eugene V. Debs and this was a industerial union, mostly for railroad workers.
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this was a knights of labor protest, a bomb went off and 8 strikers were convicted.
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A American ship that exploded outside Cuba, the yellow press blame the spanish
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he Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreigner movement which took place in China between 1899 and 1901.
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The Open Door Policy is a concept in foreign affairs, initially used to refer to the United States policy in late 19th century and early 20th century that would grant multiple international powers with equal access to China, with none of them in total control of that country.
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US asserted the right to intervene in Cuban Affairs
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he Roosevelt Corollary is a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904 after Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
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US ships bound for England
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The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
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The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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institutionalised by leaders who asserted that their nations' best interests were best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance, as well as a term used, sometimes pejoratively, in political debates.
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he Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.
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suggested german.mexican alliance against the US
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US forces in Europe
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United States enters the war after the sinking of their ship, the Lusitania, by the Germans, and because of the German Telegram to get Mexico against the US and the US had close ties to Britain,
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Selective Service Act may refer to:
Selective Service Act of 1917, or Selective Draft Act, enacted April 28, 1917, for the American entry into World War I
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Wilson's peace plan
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Women gain thew right to vote.
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the punishment of germany:
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The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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explosion of black intellectual and cultural life
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Put a quota of how mant immigrants could come from each country.
Allowed move from old immigrant areas to new immigrant areas.
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The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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Economics) October 29 1929 (day that the New York stock market crashed 13%, beginning of the Great Depression)
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erbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer.
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anti-immigrant nativism surged after ww1
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rea that is exposed to and suffers dust storms
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s.
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policies for economic improvement introduced in 1933 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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U.S. Government agency which protects bank deposits against loss
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials, FDR, 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), served for 12 years and four terms until his death in 1945, the only president ever to do so, and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
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the social security act, now codified as , was a social welfare legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States.
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he National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 449) (also known as the Wagner Act after NY Senator Robert F. Wagner) is a foundational statute of US labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill) is a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.
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World War 11 began when Hitler invaded Poland, going against the Treaty of Versailles, so Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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A non-aggression pact is a national treaty between two or more states/countries agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations.
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Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
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he Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
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The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time
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Court case involving the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans by the United States government.
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The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945.
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he Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg.
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Alliance between Britain, United States, France, Portugal and most of the western half of Europe.
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Communist leader Mao Zedong led a communist revolution in China, but cut off ties with the Soviet Union.
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War between North and South Korea, the North became communist and America fought alongside the South who remained democratic, however the war ended in a stalemate.
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34th president of the United States, but also served as general in World War 2.
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Married couple who was charged with sending atomic secrets to the Soviets and helping them build the hydrogen bomb.
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First satellite in space, launched by the Soviet Union which began the race to get a man on the moon.
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The soviet union shot down a undetectful US spy plane with Francis Gary Powers and keep him hostage.
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Timespan that Germany was seperated in two parts, controlled by the Soviet Union and the US and was both democratic (west) and communist (east)
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Wall built by East Germany to separate Berline so no one could escape to the other side. Eventually torn down.
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The fight over Cuba continiued and the Soviet Union put missles on Duba, JFK threatened to blockade and demanded their removal from Cuba.
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the US annexed Hawaii in 1998
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US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillipines, and Cuba later became free.
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A general counsel or chief legal officer (CLO) is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a company or a governmental department.
