Title: U.S. History: 1887-2008

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    Early American History

    Containmen. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
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    Civil War/Reconstruction

    Arms Race/Space Race. The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
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    The Gilded Age

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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    The Progressive Era

    Communism Communism is a philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of
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    Imperialism

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    World War I

    Domino Theory The domino theory was a theory prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War Il

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    Early Cold War