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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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Works War I
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Rosenbergs trial
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Roaring Twenties
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Great Depression
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World War II
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Early Cold War
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United Nations formed
an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
Containment
a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan also the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries. -
Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Sweatt v. Painter:
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Civil rights Era
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Domino Theory
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Korean War
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22nd Amendment
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam WAR
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Arms Race/Space Race
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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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USSR launches Sputnik
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Iran Contra Affair
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendment
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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 of 1964:
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Civil Rights Act of 1968:
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Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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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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Pentagon Papers leaked
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1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads 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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1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
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1990s-21st Century
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Communism
In Russia, efforts to build communism began after Tsar Nicholas II lost his power during the February Revolution