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29 Cards in this Set
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1952 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected |
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1954 |
- Brown v. Board of Education - Vietnam Divided |
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1955 |
Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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1957 |
- Sputnik - Little Rock - Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
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1958 |
NASA |
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1960 |
- U2 Crisis - John F. Kennedy elected President |
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1961 |
- Freedom Rides - Bay of Pigs |
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1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
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1963 |
- Civil Rights march on Washington - JFK assassinated - Feminine Mystique |
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1964 |
Gulf of Tonkin |
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1965 |
- Great Society - Malcolm X assassinated |
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1966 |
- Black Power - National Woman's Organization formed |
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1968 |
- MLK assassinated - Tet Offensive - Richard Nixon elected President |
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1969 |
Vietnamization |
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1970 |
- Massacre at Kent State - SALT talks begin |
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1971 |
- My Lai Massacre - Pentagon Papers |
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1973 |
- Cease-fire in Vietnam - U.S. withdraws |
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1974 |
- Watergate Tapes - Nixon resigns, Ford pardons |
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1976 |
Jimmy Carter elected President |
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1978 |
Camp David Accords |
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1979 |
- SALT 2 completed - U.S. recognizes China |
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1980 |
Reagan elected President |
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1983 |
- U.S. Invasion of Grenada - Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) |
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1988 |
- Iran-Contra Affair - Berlin Wall is opened - U.S. invasion of Panama |
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1990 |
- Iraq invades Kuwait - Germany reunited |
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1991 |
Operation Desert Storm |
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1992 |
- Roe v. Wade - Bill Clinton elected |
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1998 |
- Monica Lewinsky Scandal breaks - Bill Clinton impeached |
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2000 |
Baby Bush elected |
