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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 Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
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22 Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Korean War
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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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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:
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Hernandez v. Texas:
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Park's arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
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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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Golf of Tonkin Resolution
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24th Amendment
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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 Medicated 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:
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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First Man on the moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President's to send troops to battle without Congressional approval. -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Iran hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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Persian Gulf War
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1990's-21st century
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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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Attack on world trade center and Pentagon
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Hurricane Katrina
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USA Patriot act
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism