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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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Early Cold War
Containment - a policy to stop the influence of Communism to other countries
Arms Race/Space Race - a race between US and USSR to see who is the superior country
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - the USSR
Communism - a government where all properties are own and distributed to citizen by the government
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Civil Rights Era
1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
1969: First Man on the Moon -
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Vietnam War
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1965: Medicare and Medicaid established
1968: Tet Offensive
1971: Pentagon Papers leaked
1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War -
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End of the Cold War
OPEC
Sandra Day O’Connor
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
AIDS Epidemic
Star Wars (NOT the movies) 1970: Kent State University shooting
1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
1978: Camp David Accords
1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
1979: Three Mile Island Disaster
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1990s-21st Century