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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 I
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The Roaring 20's
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Great Depression
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold war
- Containment, keep communism from spreading
- Arms Race/ Space Race, the race against the U.S and USSR to get to space first and to the moon first
- The USSR, controlled by Russia and 14 other countries supporting communism 4.Communism, to control everyone with only one leader
- Domino Theory, thought what was happening to them would spread and start happening everywhere else
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
Berlin Airlift
It was the plane that dropped food over the Berlin Wall. -
Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO Established
Stands for, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, made up of US, Britain, Canada and 30 other countries. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Ruled the separate law school at the university of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal" -
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Civil Rights era
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Korean War
The war was between North and South Korea and it began on June 25th, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Rosenberg's Trial
A couple who was executed for being accused of giving the Russians insight on U.S Government plans. -
22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. -
First H-bomb detonated by the United States
The first detonated Nuclear bomb that the U.S set off -
Hernandez v Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment -
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Vietnam War
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Brown v Board of education of Topeka
overruled Plessy v Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk invented the cure to Polio and announced he was going to do this while on a radio show in 1953 -
Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks' arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
A satellite sent into space by the USSR that could blow stuff up -
Little rock nine integrated into 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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John F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Texas
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Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech at the march on Washington
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Golf Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Civil rights act
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public illegal and made and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis. -
24th Amendment
it prohibits the poll tax in voting -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting rights act 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 University shooting
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End of Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
Title IX
protects discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
Law limited the president's rights to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which led to Nixon's resignation
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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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Al-Qaeda
a terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Laden, and it was founded in 1988 -
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1990-21's Century
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Persian gulf war (operation Desert storm)
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Fall of the USSR - official end of the Cold War
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NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, United States, and Canada
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President Clinton's Impeachment
He was our president and was impeached for lying to congress about high crimes and misdemeanors in 1998 -
Presidential elections of 2000
It caused lots of controversy and debate because it took a long time to count votes because they were very close numbers -
No Child Left Behind
the act is that the government had federal education programs for primary and secondary schools -
Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
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Hurricane Katrina
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Barack Obama
President from 2009-2017 as he had served two terms and was a member of the democratic party