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The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed under the auspices of committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
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A "Red Scare" 1917-1920 is the promotion by a state or society of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism
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a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
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intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister, racist and human rights activist.
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a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement
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The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s
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On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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Medicare is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65 or older or have Social Security
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a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972
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oil crisis or oil shock occurred in the United States due to decreased oil output in the wake of the Iranian Revolution
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the economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.
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The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
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The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.