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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 1
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roaring twenties
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great depression
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world war 2
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united nation formed
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early cold war
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civil rights era
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vietnam war
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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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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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 ton kin resolution
begins undeclared war in vietnam -
civil rights act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
medicare and medicaid established
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voting rights acts of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
tet offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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civil rights act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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tinker v. des moines
defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools -
kent state shooting
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end of cold war
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pentagon papers leaked
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26th amendent
changed the voting age from 21 to 18 -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
war powers act
law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
watergate scandal
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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