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Yalta Conference
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Period: to
2nd Red Scare & McCarthyism
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Truman Doctrine
Containment
Give economic and military aid to democratic countries
Aka start of Cold War -
Marshall
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Resistences
1955 Rosa Parks
Bus boycotts Montgomery, only walking
Sit ins - 1957 -
Period: to
Korean War
forgotten war, no results -
The Rosenberg's Espionage
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Period: to
Fidel Castro & Cuba Independence
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Warren Court - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Reverses Plessy v. Ferguson -
Period: to
Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower-Inspired by the conveniency of German roads
Safer and speedier national defense system transportation system -
Sputnik
fear of Soviets putting missiles on it -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Containment in Middle East -
Little Rock Nine
Nine students enrolled into Little Rock high School
Army came to protect them -
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Space Race
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NASA established
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First TV election debate
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Period: to
Berlin Wall
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Bay of Bigs invasion
Planned by Eisenhower, but it was played out during the first year of JFK -
Cuban Missel Crisis
Led treaty agreements with USSR and hot line -
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Banned over ground nuclear bomb test only underground -
MLK-I have a Dream
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Civil Right Act
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Freedom Summer
Purpose: recruit African students voters from south
3 students killed by KKK two whites and one black -
Period: to
The Great Society
Lyndon Johnson social welfare programs
- People became too reliant on programs
- Medicare Medicaid
- Much programs but lack of regulations -
Man on moon
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Period: to
Détente & Arms Control
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26th Amendment
Old enough to fight in Vietnam War, Old enough to vote. -
Watergate Scandal
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Nixon recognizes Mainland China
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SALT-Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty
Used China as the leweigh
Led to Detente -
War Powers Act
Limit President power; it has to be approved by the Congress -
End of Cold War