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I don't know if I really need to write anything here. I was here for his presidency and so was everyone around me. It's very strange to have a timeline that starts with the Seven Years War and ends with Donald Trump. I suppose that's the way the dominoes fell in history, though.

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The Affordable Healthcare Act, colloquially known as Obamacare, was the largest healthcare reform since Medicare and Medicaid. It was signed into law by Obama on March 23, 2010, and while it kept Medicare and Medicaid mostly intact, Obamacare made it much easier for the average American to get health insurance. It came into full force in 2014, and by 2016, an additional 20 to 24 million Americans had received some kind of insurance, halving the number of Americans that were uninsured.

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The Tea Party Movement was a conservative movement within the Republican Party. Named after the Boston Tea Party, the movement called for lowered taxes and a reduction of government spending, which would also decrease national debt. Members of the movement were more likely to vote farther right than the rest of the Republican Party, but by 2019 it was reported that the movement had mostly been shed by the Republican Party.

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Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States and the first African American elected to the role. He oversaw the United States during the Great Recession and in the midst of two wars. He issued several legislations to help stop the decline of the economy, similar to FDR's New Deal. He also began to pull out of Iraq, but also increased presence in Afghanistan. He also spoke in support of LGBTQIA+, gun control and climate control policies.

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The 2003 Invasion of Iraq was a military campaign carried out by the Bush administration against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The Bush administration claimed that there were weapons of mass destruction within Iraq despite most intelligence saying otherwise. The invasion only took about a month before Hussein was deposed and the United States occupied the country. While they attempted to build a new democracy in the country, they ended up leaving a power vacuum in the country which led to further violence, and the invasion and subsequent occupation faced much criticism internationally and domestically.

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The War in Afghanistan was a twenty-year long armed conflict in Afghanistan. Following September 11, George W. Bush demanded that Afghanistan hand over the leader of Al Qaeda and the man who had masterminded the attacks, Osama bin Laden. When Afghanistan refused to do such, the United States invaded along with other members of NATO. The Taliban government of Afghanistan was toppled and the path for a new democratic government was cleared. However, the Taliban soon launched an insurgency against the new government, and they were only staved off by foreign armies; once the United States left the country in 2021, the Taliban were able to reclaim the country.

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Bush v. Gore was a case from the Supreme Court that regarded the hotly contested Election of 2000. Florida had ordered a recounting of votes as the state had been too close to call; George W. Bush's campaign asked the Supreme Court to order Florida to stop the count. The Supreme Court voted to oblige, the recounting of votes was stopped, and Florida's electoral college votes went to Bush, giving him the victory in the election.

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On the morning of September 11, the terrorist group Al Qaeda hijacked four planes to use for suicide terrorist attacks. Two of the planes went into New York's Twin Towers, which both collapsed within two hours of being hit. A third plane hit the Pentagon, and a fourth was likely going towards the Capitol or the White House, although the passengers subdued the hijackers but lost control of the plane, which crashed in Pennsylvania. The event launched America into the War on Terror and ended the upbeat mood of the 1990s.

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The Republican "Revolution" refers to the success the Republican Party saw during the 1994 midterm elections. During the buildup to elections, Republicans rallied behind a single campaign of slamming Democrats for increasing taxes and regulations, offering an alternative to these increases. The result was clear, with the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate. Following the Election of 1996, they would retain control of both, marking the first time they had done so since the 1920s.

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Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States. His presidency oversaw a period of relative peace and economic growth, although he did call for intervention in the Bosnian and Kosovo Wars. During his presidency, Clinton created the North American Free Trade Agreement and passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned assault weapons for 10 years and allocated $30 billion to police funding. Clinton would become embroiled in a scandal during his second term, however, as he did not (he did) have sexual relations with that woman (Monica Lewinsky), which culminated in his impeachment.

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The Cold War is considered to have ended on December 26, 1991, with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, had been making several reforms to the country to prevent further economic and political stagnation. However, the reforms also caused nationalist sentiments to flare within the massive country, and they loosened the grip in the Soviet eastern bloc; by the onset of the 1990s, most of the former Warsaw Pact had moved away from communism and became democratic states and some SSRs had declared independence from the USSR. In August 1991, a coup attempted to remove Gorbachev from power and prevent further reforms, but when it failed the influence of Russia had been mostly diminished and by December 1991 all of the former SSRs had become independent. The collapse of communism left the United States as the "winner" of the Cold War.

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The Iran-Contra Affair was a political scandal that temporarily tarnished Ronald Reagan's presidential popularity. The Iran-Iraq War had begun in 1980 and would last until 1989; during that time, the United States would sell anti-tank and anti-air weapons to the Iranian government as thanks for helping free hostages. Soon Reagan's advisors had the idea of illegally using the funds from this sale to fund contras in Nicaragua. Reagan appeared as hands-off and easily swayed as he denied involvement in the affair.

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Reaganomics are the common name for the supply-side economics advocated by Ronald Reagan's administration. It was a response to a decade of stagflation in the 1970s – a period of low economic growth but high inflation and unemployment. Reaganomics has four main pillars: reducing taxes, decreasing federal spending, reducing federal regulation of the markets and tightening money supply. It was claimed that these would lead to increased jobs, production and prosperity. While it ended stagflation and helped grow the economy once more, wages were reduced, and national debt tripled in eight years.

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Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States from 1980 to 1988. He had been an actor earlier in his life but transitioned to politics during the 1960s. At the time of his inauguration, he was the oldest President to take office at 69 years old. His presidency saw the rise of Reaganomics, intensification of the War on Drugs, and aggressive outward policy against communism. By the end of his presidency, Reagan had a 68% approval rating, which matched FDR's rating. While Reagan planned to be politically active following his presidency, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1994 and died ten years later.

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The Watergate Scandal was a political scandal between 1972 and 1974 that ended with the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. A break in at the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C. had five perpetrators arrested; money found on them was linked to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Soon Nixon was implicated in a coverup of the break in and was impeached. The trial required Nixon to reveal secret voice tapes from his office; these implicated Nixon's involvement in covering up the break in. Nixon would then resign from office, and the scandal took a massive toll on American faith in their government.

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Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects a woman's rights to an abortion. The case came when a Texan woman wanted to get an abortion but could not get one due to Texas' anti-abortion laws. Under the pseudonym Jane Roe, she sued her local district attorney Henry Wade. The case worked its way up to the Supreme Court, who ruled in favor of Jane Roe's case. The case flared discussions of right-to-life and the morality of abortions.

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The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the Constitution that guarantees civil rights to all Americans regardless of sex. It was introduced in 1971, and was ratified by the Senate and House of Representatives by 1972. It was set for a state ratification deadline of March 22, 1979; though 35 out of 38 states ratified it by 1977, conservative women mobilized to contest the amendment. Five states would rescind their support of the amendment, and by 1982 no more states had signed it, rendering the amendment in somewhat of a limbo.

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Environmentalism is a broad movement that seeks to protect and improve the environment of the Earth. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw 20 million participants, as many in the United States had growing concerns of pollution and general destruction of the United States. Some legislations were passed during the 1970s to protect the environment, such as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the Clean Air Act in the same year and the Clean Water Act in 1972.

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Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States.  Nixon was elected on a platform of allowing America time to settle from the turbulence of the 1960s. Internationally, he supported policies of détente, a policy that involves cooling of tensions and improvement with communist nations. He also ended United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Domestically, Nixon tried to curb some of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs, although he also helped curb a recession in 1970 and was an environmentalist. However, Nixon is mostly remembered for the scandal at the end of his presidency which triggered his resignation.

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The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Southeast Asia between 1955 and 1975. It was primarily fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the latter of which received heavy support by the United States. U.S. involvement escalated throughout the course of the war but was primarily spurred by the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 where an American ship clashed with a North Vietnamese attack craft. The war from its onset was controversial in the United States, and they eventually pulled out of South Vietnam in 1973, which fell two years later.

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Hippies is a term used to describe the counterculture amongst young people during the 1960s. During this era, many young people began to embrace rebellious fashion and values in line with the idealism of the "New Left." Long hair, jeans, beards and beads became popular, as well as counterculture music from bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The movement died out in the 1970s due to economic turmoil.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an act that ended more of the Southern's racist policies against African Americans. The struggle to end racism had not ended after the Civil Rights Act; activists still marched for further equality in America. After the brutality against the march for voting rights led by MLK in Selma, the United States was further swayed to levy more rights. The act prohibited discrimination in voting; it ended literacy tests in the South and provided federal registrars in areas where the laws were worst.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a monumental act that ended many of the oppressive policies in the South. Political activists like Martin Luther King Jr. had been advocating for such an act to end segregation in the South for many years. The act was initially proposed by John F. Kennedy but was pushed through by Lyndon B. Johnson following the former's assassination. The act outlawed discrimination throughout the united States based on race, color, religion or sex. It ended segregation in public facilities and gave the federal government the power to enforce desegregation.

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The Great Society were several domestic reforms passed by Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson had sought to expand the reform policies established by FDR's presidency, and since Johnson had been in politics for three decades, he was able to get many of the reforms through the government. They included health insurace for the old (Medicare), healthcare for the sick and poor (Medicaid), abolished immigration quotas from the 1920s, and increased funding for various schools.

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Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the role of 37th President following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Originally coming from Stonewall, Texas, Johnson sought to expand social reforms from the New Deal, and having served thirty years in political office, he knew how to get laws through. He would be crucial in passing both the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, as well as a plethora of other social reforms. However, Johnson's main legacy is for getting the United States involved in the Vietnam War, and subsequently continuing to escalate the war.

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The Feminine Mystique was a book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan. The women's movement was once again beginning to pick up some steam with the successes of the civil rights movement and increased education for women during the 1950s. The Feminine Mystique would give the new movement purpose: to reject the traditional view of women that had been established following World War II of the role of housewife, mother and homemaker. The women's movement would seek to increase roles in society for women so that they could gain fulfillment in life with professional careers.

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Malcolm X was a civil rights activist and advocate for African American empowerment. He adopted the name Malcolm X after being released from prison on parole in 1952, and quickly became a very controversial figure of the civil rights movement. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X called for African Americans to defend themselves – using black violence to counter white violence, as well for advocating for Islam within black communities. He eventually split with the Nation of Islam in 1964, an organization he had long collaborated with, and was soon assassinated in New York City on February 21, 1965.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union between October 16, 1962, and October 29 of the same year. America had placed ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey, making the Soviets feel threatened; in response, they also placed missiles in Cuba. Incumbent President John F. Kennedy responded by placing a blockade – then called a "quarantine" – on Cuba until the weapons were removed. Eventually, the superpowers agreed to remove the missiles from Turkey and Cuba, a nuclear hotline was established, and many nations signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to stop testing nuclear weapons above-ground.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was 34th President of the United States. Kennedy was born into the powerful Kennedy family and became a war hero during World War II for his actions during the sinking of PT-109. In 1960, Kennedy would run for office against former Vice President Richard Nixon, narrowly defeating him in the election and becoming the youngest man to be elected. He is most famous for his careful handling of the 1962 crisis which prevented full-blown nuclear war. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was the most prominent civl rights leader from 1955 to 1968. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, witnessing firsthand the discrimination and racism in the South. Throughout his political activist career, King would utilize nonviolence to achieve his goals. He would oversee the Montgomery bus boycotts and form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He also was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he gave his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech; King's efforts, along with the rest of the civil rights movement, would eventually get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed. King would be assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

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McCarthyism was a wave of political accusations spearheaded by Joseph McCarthy against suspected communists and socialists. McCarthy used fears against the aforementioned ideologies in order to create a platform of fear and suspicion, which gave him political influence and power. The craze swept the nation from 1950 to 1954, when public opinion turned against McCarthy in a televised Senate hearing.

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In his farewell address, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the "military-industrial complex". The military-industrial complex was the relationship between the military and the industry supplying it, where both benefit from the sale of weapons. Eisenhower spoke against it, seeing that it was gaining power due to arms races during the Cold War; some Americans feared that the United States would eventually become a militaristic state.

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Dwight Eisenhower, also known as Ike, was a war hero and 34th President. He became famous during World War II for his organization of the D-Day landings, and used this popularity to ride into the White House in 1952. During his presidency, he would seek to balance the budget by decreasing spending, and also authorized the construction of 42,000 miles of road with the Interstate Highway System in 1956.

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The G.I. Bill, officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a bill that provided returning veterans support in the transition to peacetime. It gave them lowered costs for mortgages and farms, as well as payments of tuition for school. The opportunity was seized by over half of 15 million returning veterans.

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The baby boom was a spike in global fertility rates during the mid-20th century. It is generally accepted as starting after the end of World War II, although some place it during the middle of the war. It was due to an increased tendency for families to have more than one child – children born in this era have been known as baby boomers.

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The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950 and would "end" in a stalemate on July 27, 1953. Two governments had been formed on the 38th parallel, with the North being communist and the South being "democratic", and both claiming to be the seoul government of Korea. The North invaded the South first, nearly defeating them before a United Nations coalition beat them back to the border with China. At that point, the recently-turned Communist China intervened as well, pushing the South back until a UN counterattack resettled the border near the 38th parallel. Eventually an armistice was signed after two years of stalemate; while it was technically a success of containment, a stalemate made many upset.

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NATO was created on April 4, 1949. It was proposed by Harry Truman as a military pact to defend the western European nations from any military threat; much of west Europe had already been signing such treaties, as seen in the Brussels Treaty Organization. The creation of NATO can be seen as a definitive end of the provisions recommended by Washington's Farewell Address in 1796, as it established clear-cut alliances with European nations and can be seen as a definitive end to U.S. isolationism. The Soviets would soon respond with the creation of the Warsaw Pact.

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The Berlin Airlift was the response to the Berlin Blockade, the first major crisis of the Cold War. After a new currency was introduced in the western occupied Germany, the Soviet Union declared a total blockade of West Berlin, an occupational enclave of the west. Instead of withdrawing, Harry Truman began sending airlifts of supplies to West Berlin; the amount of support sent was massive, with a plane arriving every thirty seconds at the airlift's peak and the original daily supply goal being quadrupled at the peak. The incident ended with the Soviets lifting the blockade, and the incident would contribute to the creation of West and East Germany.

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The Marshall Plan was an economic program designed to help revitalize the economies of western European nations. The Second World War had left most of Europe in economic ruin, and the Americans feared that without intervention, many would turn to communism. To prevent this, George Marshall composed a plan to send the western nations of Europe economic aid. $12 billion were sent to the nations, and it worked as intended; the economies of west Europe were revitalized, and communist movements there mostly died down.

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Containment was the main geopolitical strategy used by the United States during the Cold War. The idea was to contain Soviet influence in their current sphere of influence, causing the USSR to eventually back down and live in peace with the other nations of the world. The policy refused to repeat the mistakes before World War II with appeasement and would drive the United States into numerous wars throughout the Cold War.

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The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy declared by Harry Truman on March 12, 1947. The growing rift between the two world superpowers, the USA and USSR, was becoming more and more apparent. At the same time, both Greece and Turkey were under threat from communism, with a communist uprising in the former and the latter under pressure from the Soviets. Truman gave a speech declaring the need to protect people abroad and allow them to choose their destiny, primarily through economic and financial aid. The speech laid the foundation for U.S. policy during the Cold War and is often considered to be the official start of the era.

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The Cold War was a period of conflict – but not a full war – between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Second World War, the two had been "allies" as they had both been battling Nazi aggression. However, after the war, the ideological differences between the two became prevalent without a common enemy; this was exacerbated by the fact that both had emerged as the superpowers of the world. The Cold War was marked by espionage, proxy wars spurred by the superpowers, and arms races such as nuclear weaponry and spacefaring technology.

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The United Nations began operations on October 24, 1945. The United Nations was a spiritual successor the the League of Nations established following World War I and had many of the same ideals and goals, although this time it was ratified by the American Congress. The main goal of the organization is to maintain world peace, although it also upholds human rights and international law, provides humanitarian aid and promotes sustainable development. The main allies of WWII – the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China – have permanent seats and veto powers in the Security Council, something which would become complicated by the Cold War.

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on August 6, 1945, and August 9, respectively. Japan had been slowly beaten back to their home islands by the United States from 1942 to 1945; by this point, the United States was preparing an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Japan's military tactics had been becoming more and more suicidal throughout the war, and all knew that an invasion of Japan proper would cause much carnage and bloodshed. The Manhattan Project had successfully yielded the first nuclear weapons, however, and the United States decided to use them to end the war faster. Following an ultimatum for Japan to unconditionally surrender – which Japan denied – the United States dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima and Fat Man on Nagasaki. The bombings caused between 129,000 and 226,000 deaths; these, along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, prompted Japan to surrender on September 2, 1945, ending six years of total war.

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Over 100,000 Japanese Americans during WWII were interned by the United States government. Following the Pearl Harbor attacks, there were domestic fears that Japanese Americans were secretly working with the Empire of Japan against the American government. As a result, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese Americans; most were placed in concentration camps. By the time the last Japanese Americans were released from the camps in 1946, most had lost their homes, businesses, and possessions.

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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States and was the Vice President of Franklin Roosevelt during the 1944 election. When Roosevelt died of a stroke only a few months before the end of the war, Truman succeeded him as President. Truman oversaw the end of the Second World War and the subsequent beginning of the Cold War, implementing the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and establishing both NATO and the Truman Doctrine to counter the newfound Soviet threat. Truman's popularity would fall during the Korean War, although it has recovered since his death.

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The Normandy landings, known to most as D-Day, occurred on June 6, 1944, and was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Masterminded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the invasion involved paratroopers to disrupt enemy communications and five naval landings at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. While there were heavy casualties, particularly at Omaha's steep cliffs, the Allies were able to establish a beachhead that they would gradually expand until they were able to sweep through and liberate France.

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"Rosie the Riveter" was a cultural icon of World War II representing the women who worked in factories during wartime. In a situation similar to World War I, many of the men in factories had left to fight on the frontlines, and women once again stepped up to fill the role. The term "Rosie the Riveter" first appeared from a song made in 1942, although the person of the name's origin is disputed. Women's efforts in WWII contributed to growing equality politically, although they were expected to return to being housewives after the war ended.

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The Double V campaign was a slogan encouraging African Americans to volunteer for the war effort. The "Double V" refers to two victories for African American volunteers: the victory abroad in defeating fascist regimes, and victory domestically in achieving equality between white and black Americans. The campaign highlighted the discrimination that African Americans still faced, as the armed forces were still segregated, and the South was still oppressing them at home, all while America claimed to be fighting for freedom and democracy abroad. The campaign was overwhelmingly popular with African Americans, and contributed to further campaigns for racial equality.

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The Manhattan Project was a massive research project into nuclear weapons. Nuclear fission had been discovered by German scientists shortly before World War II erupted in Europe, which led to the idea of a bomb that used the division of atoms to release a massive amount of energy. Some feared that Germans would be able to discover such a bomb first, especially amongst refugees from the Nazis; some of these scientists convinced Roosevelt to invest into research of such a weapon. The United States spent $2 billion and hired 100,000 people on the project in order to find the bomb. On July 16, 1945, the research would bear fruit with the Trinity test.

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On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor. Relations between the countries had been somewhat unfriendly for many years as the two were suspicious of each other's holdings in the Pacific, and tensions had been running high since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The bombing of the American ship Panay and the atrocities in Nanking only made relations worse, and by July 1941 the Japanese had been completely embargoed by the United States. Pearl Harbor was a pre-emptive strike to try and stop the Americans from interfering with Japanese ambitions in the Pacific; however, it only served to galvanize the American spirit and brought them into World War II.

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The Lend-Lease Act was enacted on March 11, 1941. Lend-lease was a policy in which the United States would send support in the form of food, materiel and oil to their wartime allies. The act would continue throughout the duration of the war, and in total, the United States would send $50 billion to their allies, or roughly $690 billion 2020 USD. It marked the end of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s, and it was essentially the end of any American policy of isolationism.

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The Atlantic Charter was a declaration by America and the United Kingdom for their goals of World War II, which was interestingly declared before the United States actually joined the war. The United States had been supporting the United Kingdom for about two years by this point, and they were essentially allies by this point. The leaders of the two countries met on August 14, 1941, to declare their goals for the end of the war: self-determination for all, free trade, and no territorial expansion.

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The Second World War began on September 1, 1939, with the Nazi invasion of Poland. Militaristic and dictatorial countries had been slowly rising through the world since the end of World War One, with Italy in 1923, Germany in 1933, and Japan in the early 1930s. Germany had been taken over by the nationalistic Nazi party, who had begun to slowly tear down the Treaty of Versailles while also swallowing neighboring countries. Japan had been on a bellicose path against China, seen when they invaded Manchuria in 1931 and the nation as a whole in 1937, and Italy had also been annexing smaller nations around it. These three would be the main members of the Axis Powers, while most other countries besides those in the Nazi sphere would join the Allies, although the United States would remain out of it for the time being.

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Cash and Carry was a policy that Franklin Roosevelt began to support following the outbreak of World War II. With the rise of the main three Axis Powers, Roosevelt wanted to more directly aid the democracies of Europe, but this was hindered by the Neutrality Acts. He proposed a bill to revise some of the earlier Neutrality Acts, but it was repeatedly defeated by the Senate and House until the Nazi invasion of Poland. Those in the government finally realized that it was impossible to be truly neutral in these circumstances; as such, they voted to pass the bill on November 2, 1939. It allowed the United States to sell arms once again, which were primarily sold to the democracies of France and the United Kingdom.

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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States in an attempt to continue its long tradition of isolationism. The first of the acts, the Neutrality Act of 1935, allowed the President to forbid the sale of arms to foreign countries and to ban Americans from travelling on belligerent ships, likely to avoid a repeat of the Lusitania. The third of the acts, the Neutrality Act of 1937, banned the shipping of arms to either side of the Spanish Civil War. The acts would slowly prove futile, as during this time, fascist regimes began to rapidly consolidate power and become more and more aggressive towards their neighbors.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938 and was concerned with various wage laws. It established the right to a minimum wage, created the idea of overtime for those who work over forty hours a week, and banned the use of "oppressive child labor".

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Social Security is a program that was signed in by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935. It is essentially a federal body that grants benefits to those who retire at the age of 65 or workers who need assistance – the program is paid for using payroll taxes.

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The Wagner Act, or National Labor Relations Act, was passed in 1935. It guaranteed worker's rights to join a labor union, the right for these unions to bargain, and also banned practices that were unfair to labor.

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was an agency established in 1933 to guarantee the bank holdings of individuals. While the initial value was only $5,000, it has increased over the years to $250,000.

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The Glass-Steagall Legislation was a set of four provisions from the Banking Act of 1933. The legislation essentially separated commercial and investment banking, making sure that commercial banks would not lose all of their money in the event of a collapse in investments.

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The Works Progress Administration was a program during the Second New Deal that lasted between 1935 and 1940. It spent billions of dollars building new infrastructural projects, and after its first year of operation it had already hired 3.4 million men and women.