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Early American History
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age
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The Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War II
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Early Cold War
Containment - stopping spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race - arms race occurs when two or more countries increase the size and quality of military resources.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
Communism - a political theory in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Domino Theory - one country falls in communism then the countries around will fall too. -
United Nations formed
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Truman Doctrine
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenberg's trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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End of the Cold War
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1990s-21st Century