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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
13th Amendment
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Reconstruction
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Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
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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
all MEN can VOTE -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
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Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a telephone -
Reconstruction Ends
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Jim Crow Laws Start in the South
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The Gilded Age
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath -
Light Bulb Invented
Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. I -
3rd wave of immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Pendleton Act
is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Dawes Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
"Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich -
Chicago's Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899 -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
It allowed certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be competitive, and recommended the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. -
How The Other Half Lives
an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
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a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States -
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Imperalism
type of goverment that seeks to increase its size either by forcing(through war) or influencing(through politics) -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
The book that Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan(Captain of the Navy)wrote to the president telling him that the in order for him to have a strong country the country would need to have a strong Navy -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
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Plessy V. Fergerson
racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
annexation of Hawaii
overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii began with a coup d'état against Queen Liliuokalani on January 17, 1893 on the island of Oahu, by foreign residents residing in Honolulu -
Spanish-American war
military conflict between the U.S and Spain which resulted in the U.S gaining control of Guam,Philippines,and Puerto Rico -
Open door policy
Foreign policy proposed by the U.s under which all nations would have equal opportunities to trade with china -
Assassination of president Mckinley
On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political Party:Republican + Progressive “Bull Moose” Party Domestic Policies: Square deal(3’s)-Trust Buster Nature conversation
Foreign policy: Big Stick Diplomacy:U.S power and readiness to use military force when necessary(speak softly,and carry a big stick) -
Wright Brother's airplane
with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful -
Panama Canal U.S construction begins
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The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States -
Pure Food and Drug Act
"An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1906, -
Model-T
an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans -
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William Howard Taft
Political Party: Republican
Domestic Policies: Tried 3c’s but they didn’t work ....16th and 17th amendments
Foreign policy:Dollar Diplomacy-futhering U.S power in Latin America and East Asia by guaranteeing loans -
Federal reserve act
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States -
16th amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States -
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Woodrow Wilson
Political Party: Democratic
Domestic Policies: Clayton Anti-Trust act
National Park Service, Federal Reserve Act
Helped pass the 18th and 19th amendment
Foreign policy: Moral Diplomacy-support only the countries who had similar moral beliefs in hopes of increasing the number of democratic nations -
17th amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years -
Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip -
Trench Warfare,Poison Gas,and Machine Guns
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Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany -
National park system
an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks -
Zimmerman Telegram
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Russian Revolution
a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
U.S entry into WWI
President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front -
Armistice
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen points
a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress -
Treaty of Versailles
the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Power -
Harlem Renaissance
a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
18th amendment
United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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Red scare
promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -
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Roaring twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes"Monkey"Trial
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Mein Kampf published
is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic -
Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
The Spirit of St. Louis touches down at the Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France. Local time: 10:22pm. Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours. -
St.Valentine's day Massacre
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Stock market crashes"Black Tuesday"
the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States (acting as the most significant predicting indicator of the Great -
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was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Hoovervilles
a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. -
100,000 banks have failed
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Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)
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Public Work Administration(PWA)
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The Holocaust
was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews -
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New Deal programs
an amalgam of dozens of programs and agencies created by the Roosevelt Administration and the Congress -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 -
Dust -Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies -
Social Security Administration(SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Kristallnacht
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Hitler invades Poland
referred to by Germany as the 1939 Defensive War since Hitler proclaimed that Poland had attacked Germany and that "Germans in Poland are persecuted with a bloody terror and are driven from their homes. -
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World War II
was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier -
German Blitzkreig attacks
The Japanese turn back a Chinese counter-offensive; the Blitzkrieg Germany invasion of France; France falls; the British Army is evacuated from Dunkirk. -
Tuskegee Airmen
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Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
Navajo Code Talkers
specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. Code talking, -
Executive Order 9066
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Bataan Death March
was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, -
Germany Divided
Germany was cut between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany. Germany was stripped of its war gains and lost territories in the east to Poland and the Soviet Union. -
Invasion of Normandy(D-DAY)
The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, -
G.I Bill
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Victory over Japan/Pacific(VJ/VP)DAY
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Victory in Europe(VE)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 -
United Nations(UN)Formed
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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, -
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Harry S. Truman
was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Nuremberg Trails
series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Mao Zedong Established communist rule in China
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The Cold war
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Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' -
Arabb-Israel war begins
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NATO Formed
also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic -
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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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean war
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Korean War
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1950's prosperity
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg execution
a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, are put to death in the electric chair. The execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. -
armistice signed
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Dwight D.Eisenhower
was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
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Warren Court
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Hernandez v. Texas
was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period -
Brown v. Board of Education
a 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
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Warsaw Fast Formed
formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, -
Polio Vaccince
It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. The oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961. -
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 -
Interstate Highway Act
popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Elvis Presley First Hit Song
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sputnik 1
the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957 -
Leave It To Beaver First Air on TV
This sitcom defines the "golly gee" wholesomeness of 1950s and `60s TV, where dad Ward Cleaver always gets home in time for dinner, mom June cleans the house wearing a dress and pearls, and kids Wally and the Beav always learn a lesson by the end of the episode. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
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Vietnam War
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Kennedy vs. Nixon TV debate
United States presidential election, 1960, when Nixon and Kennedy were the candidates from the two major parties. the first of the nationwide U.S. presidential election deb -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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Bay of pigs invasion
was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
peace corps formed
a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United State -
Mapp v. Ohio
was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, -
Affrimative Action
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John F. Kennedy
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cuban missle crisis
the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American -
Sam Walton opens up first Walmart
he first true Wal-Mart opened on July 2, 1962, in Rogers, Arkansas. Called the Wal-Mart Discount City store, it was located at 719 West Walnut Street -
Kennedy assassination in Dallas,Texas
he 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
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George Wallace Blocks University Of Alabama Entrance
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The femine Mysique
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March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963 -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Great society
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Escobeco v. Illinois
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Civil Rights act of 1964
which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
24th Amendment
right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Israeli-Palestine conflict begins
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Voting Rights act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Malcom X asassinated
as an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms -
United Farm Worker's California Delano Grape strike
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Miranda v. Arizona
The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his or her rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. -
Six day war
Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. -
My Lai Massacre
the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. -
Tet Offensive
or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. -
Tinker v. Des Moinse
Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Behalf of Student Expression. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
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Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, -
Apollo 11
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Mason Family Murder
a commune established in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson. They gained national notoriety after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others on August 9, 1969 by Tex Watson -
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Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
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Kent state shootings
the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University i -
Enviornmental protection agency (EPA)
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Pentagon Papers
A classified study of the Vietnam War that was carried out by the Department of Defense. An official of the department, Daniel Ellsberg, gave copies of the study in 1971 to the New York Times and Washington Post. -
26th Amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old. -
Policy of Dentente' Begins
between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. -
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Jimmy Carter
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Nixon visits China
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Title XI
Title IX
Title IX, as a federal civil rights law in the United States of America, was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. -
Waterate sandal
a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters -
Roe V. Wade
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OPEC oil embargo
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War Powers Resolution
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Endangered Species act
was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened -
First cell phones
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment -
United States v. Nixon
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings -
Ford pardons Nixon
who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal -
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Gerald Ford
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Bill Gates states microsoft
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
Fall of Saigon
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975. -
National Rifle Associating(NRA)Lobbying begins
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Steve Jobs starts Apple
in 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs' family garage. -
Community reinvestment Act of 1977
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Camp David Accords
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Egypt-Isreali peace treaty
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Iran Hostage crisis
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War on Drugs
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conservative resurgence
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AIDS epidemic
As of 2016, approximately 36.7 million people are living with HIV globally. In 2016, approximately half are men and half are women. There were about 1.0 million deaths from AIDS in 2016, down from 1.9 million in 2005 -
Sandra day O'connor appointed to u.s supreme court
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"Trickle down economics"
is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Leabnon
241 US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon -
Iran-contra Affair
Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
The Oprah Winfrey show first airs
often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. -
"Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
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Berlin Wall Falls
he Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
End of cold war
In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. -
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George W.H. Bush
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Germany Reunificaton
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Iran invades Kuwait
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Persian Gulf War
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Ms.Adcox is born
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Soviet Union Collapse
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Opreation Desert storm
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Rondney's King
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA founded
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contract with America
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O.J'S Simpson's "trial of the century"
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Bill Clinton impeachment
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USA Patriot act
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9/11
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War on Terror
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George w. Bush
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War in Afraganistan
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NASA mars Rover mission begins
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Iraq war
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Facebook Launched
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Hurricane Katrina
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Saddam Hussein Executed
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Iphone released
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Barack Obama
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American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009
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Sonia Sotomayor appointed to U.S supreme court
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Hilary Clinton appointed U.S Secretary of state
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Arab spring
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Osama Bin Laden killed
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Space X Falcon9
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Donald Trump elected
