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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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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment- keeping something harmful under control Arms Race/space race- a competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons. The union of soviet socialist republics- a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia communism- a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. domino theory- an event in one country will cause similar events in other countries. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
22nd Amendment
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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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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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trials
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First H-bomb detonated by the United States
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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
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio vaccine
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Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks 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 Missle 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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Civil Rights Act
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
24th amendment
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Medicare and Medicade established
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Voting rights act
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil rights act
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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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
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War Powers Act
Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without congressional approval -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam war
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1990s-21st Century