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| 6704926779 | Levittown | In 1947, a builder used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York |  | 0 |
| 6704926780 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII. |  | 1 |
| 6704926781 | Truman Doctrine | 1947, policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism |  | 2 |
| 6704926782 | Marshall Plan | A U.S. program of economic aid for war-torn Europe (1948-1952) |  | 3 |
| 6704926783 | Berlin Blockade | a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. |  | 4 |
| 6704926784 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. |  | 5 |
| 6704926785 | McCarthyism | The term associated with a senator who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s. |  | 6 |
| 6704926786 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |  | 7 |
| 6704926787 | Sputnik | First satellite launched into space. |  | 8 |
| 6704926788 | NASA | The United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program. |  | 9 |
| 6704926790 | Bay of Pigs | In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. CIA landed on Cuban coast in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. |  | 10 |
| 6704926791 | Freedom Rides | 1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC to test southern states' compliance to integration. |  | 11 |
| 6704926792 | Cuban Missile Crisis | U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President JFK demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island |  | 12 |
| 6704926793 | Rachel Carson | United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides. Silent Spring |  | 13 |
| 6704926794 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Banned discrimination in public acomodations |  | 14 |
| 6704926795 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Banned the use of any test or device to deny suffrage. |  | 15 |
| 6704926796 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against north Vietnam |  | 16 |
| 6704926797 | Cesar Chavez | 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped migrant farm workers. |  | 17 |
| 6704926798 | Malcolm X | 1952, converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s. |  | 18 |
| 6704926800 | Woodstock | A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to upstate New York 1969 |  | 19 |
| 6704926801 | Earth Day | A holiday conceived of by environmental activist and Senator Gaylord Nelson |  | 20 |
| 6704926802 | Kent State Massacre | Protests to the war that lead to National Guard being called in and shot students because they burned the ROTC building. |  | 21 |
| 6704926805 | Roe v Wade | Established national abortion guidelines. |  | 22 |
| 6704926806 | Watergate | 1972, A security gaurd foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committe Headquarters, exposing the Republican scandal. |  | 23 |
