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Long before the Civil War and the days of the Wild West, early American History began with those first Native Americans who settled upon this land some 15,000 years ago. But, it would be the original 13 English colonies that would become the first U.S. states.
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Civil war- The war that divides America in the 1860s. A war between citizens of the same country.
Reconstruction- The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring Southern states back into the Union -
Economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. it have technology, big business, urbanization, immigration and reaction segment.
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Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement.
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A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
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European war in which an alliance including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States defeated the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
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Name for the 1920's because there was so much social change during this decade.
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the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the u.s. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
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world wide conflict between Axis & Allied Powers. Most destructive conflict in history.
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United Nations is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.
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A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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US, UK, French, and Soviet military forces divided up Germany. Berlin was located far inside the Soviets territory. The Soviets built a wall to stop West Berlin from entering the city so the US sent planes with raw supplies over.
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Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.
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established after WWII as a collective self-defense organization for Western Europe and the North American States
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1950-1953
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations helped South Korea. Then North Korean troops marched into South Korea which set off the war. -
Prohibits discrimination based on race,color,religion, gender, and national origin. This includes discrimination in the work place, public places, schools, and in voting.
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Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953. Their trial remains controversial today.
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U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. Operation Ivy was conducted on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism. The United States foreign policy of containing communism at all costs.
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American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
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They launched sputnik the world first artificial satellite. Sputnik traveled around he at 18000 miles per hours, circling the globe every 96 minutes. Its launch was triumph of Soviet technology. It linked the soviet union and seven eastern European countries after the death of Joseph Stalin.
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the Berlin Wall reduced, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the state itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the ideological barrier was lifted and also the conflict came to an end.
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.