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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- American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.
Arms Race/ Space Race- A race to create more weapons and to go to space
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Soviet Union
Communism- System of government where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs
Domino Theory- Theory that a political event will cause similar events in neighboring 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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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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
Great Society- LBJ program that helped reduce poverty and racial injustice
Thurgood Marshall- Lawyer, civil rights activist, and first African-American justice, promoted equality
Black Panthers- Black Power organization that emphasized racial pride
Non-Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience- Sit ins, boycotts, etc., showed how important p.o.c were to the gov and the economy
Cesar Chavez- Latino civil rights activist helped gain better working conditions for farm workers, known for grape boycott -
Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Korean War
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Vietnam War
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Hernandez v. Texas
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment -
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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OPEC
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers -
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 Tonkin 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 -
24th amendment
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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
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland -
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End of the 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 people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
Encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do business, including low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized hostages -
Three Mile Island Disaster
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history -
Sandra Day O’Connor
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AIDS Epidemic
The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981. Today, there are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV and more than 700,000 people with AIDS have died since the beginning of the epidemic -
Star Wars
The Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
Iran Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
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1990s-21st Century