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Cuban Missile Crises

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In 1962 Cuba's ally, the Soviet Union, placed 42 nuclear missiles in Cuba, threatening the U.S. President Kennedy responded with a blockade of Cuba. This tense situation almost led to nuclear war.

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Civil Rights Acts of 1964

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President Johnson, prohibited racial discrimination in employment, institutions like hospitals and schools, and privately owned public accommodations such as restaurants, hotels, and theaters. It also banned discrimination on the grounds of sex. One of the most important legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. Later, Congress expanded the act, passing additional legislation for the equality to African Americans.

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Great Society

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President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.

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Ho Chi Minh

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Communist leader of the north Vietnam - Viet Minh

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3) The Feminine Mystique

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Started the women's movement in 1960's , is a book that described a role in a woman's society was to be a wife, mother, and a housewife and nothing else

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11) Kent State Protests

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- 1970 in the kent state university involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the national guard

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11) Kent State Protests

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in 1970 in the kent state university involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the national guard

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17) Inflation

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the sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services

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1) Cold War

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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular

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5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization-

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also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949

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6) Bretton Woods Conference

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officially known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1 to 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to agree upon a series of new rules for the post-WWII international monetary system.

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10) National Security Act- of 1947

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was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.

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13) NSC-68

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was a 58-page top secret policy paper by the United States National Security Council presented to President Harry S. Truman on April 14, 1950. It was one of the most important statements of American policy that launched the Cold War.

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23) Levittown

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formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York. Levittown is halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale.

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26) Sputnik

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each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

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28) Highway Act of 1956-

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popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.

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29) Joseph McCarthy- Joseph Raymond \"Joe\" McCarthy

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was an American politician who was a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957

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NAACP

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And in 1909 this organization became the most important civil rights organization in the country

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Brown VS Board of Education

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In 1954 the Supreme Court reversed the 1896 Plessy versus Ferguson decision which established the separate but equal doctrine the Brown decision found segregation in schools inherently unequal and initiated a long and difficult effort to integrate the nation's public schools

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Montgomery bus boycott

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In 1955 African Americans led by Martin Luther King Junior boycotted the bus in Montgomery Alabama after seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus. The boycott which ended when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the protesters marked the beginning of the new activist phase a civil rights movement

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Equal rights amendment

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A proposed constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1972 to guarantee women's equal treatment under the law the amendment failed to be ratified in 1982

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Advance organization for women (NOW)

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Founded in 1966 now called for equal employment and opportunity and equal pay for women. It also champion the legalization of abortion and equal rights amendments to the Constitution

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Roe vs Wade

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The 1973 Supreme Court decision that women have a constitutional right to an abortion during the early stages of pregnancy.

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Rosa Parks

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United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery Alabama. Her action triggered the national civil rights movement.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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An African-American clergymen who advocated social change through nonviolence means. A powerful speaker who gave the famous speech I have a dream he was a man of great spiritual strength who shape the American civil rights movement of the 1950 and 60s.

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Matthew Shepard

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And openly gay student that was attending the University of Wyoming, he was attacked and tortured to death as a hate crime against gays his murder brought national and international attention to hate crimes.

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Defense of marriage act

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Passed by Congress in 1996 stated marriage is between a man and the woman , however many states and companies extend benefits to same-sex and many states later this same-sex marriage

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