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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- The act to stop the spread of communism through Europe.
•Arms Race/Space Race- The struggle between the US and the Soviets in achieving more powerful weapons and getting to space.
•The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- The mass of all communist countries united together.
•Communism- The practice of the government owning everything about the nation.
•Domino Theory- The theory that one communist nation would start a chain reaction of corrupting bordering Nations. -
22nd Amendment
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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Sweatt v. Painter
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs Trial
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First H-bomb Detonated By the US
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
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 Berlin
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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" 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
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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 Medicaid Established
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Tinker vs. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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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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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
Changed the voting age from 21 to 18. -
Title IX
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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
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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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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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1990s-21st Century
Barack Obama- 44th President of the United States
Al-Qaeda- Terrorist group responsible for September 11th
No Child Left Behind- Act requiring states to educate and test students in reading and math.
President Clinton’s Impeachment- 2nd President to ever be impeached (lying under oath).
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
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Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
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USA Patriot Act
Tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism. -
Hurricane Katrina