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Chapters 6 - A New Industrial Age.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Chapter 7 - Immigrants and Urbanization
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Chapter 8 - Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Chapter 9 - The Progressive Era
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Chapter 10 - America Claims an Empire
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The Wright Brothers acheive the first successful airplane flight.
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Chapter 11 - The First World War
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World War I begins in Europe.
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Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary.
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United States enter World War I.
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The first World War ends.
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Chapter 12 - Politics of the Roaring Twenties
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Eighteenth Amendment outlaws alcoholic beverages.
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Chapter 13 - The Roaring Life of the 1920s
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Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
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Joseph Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year-Plan in the USSR.
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Chapter 14 - The Great Depression Begins
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Chapter 16 - World War Looms
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Chapter 15 - The New Deal
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party come to power in Germany.
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Germany invades Poland.
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Chapter 17 - The United States in World War II
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United States enters World War II.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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Chapter 18 - Cold War Conflicts
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Japan surrenders after atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Chapter 19 - The Postwar Boom
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Korean War begins.
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Chapter 21 - Civil Rights
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Chapter 22 - The Vietnam War Years
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Chapter 23 - An Era of Social Change
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Chapter 20 - The New Frontier and The Great Society
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The U.S. and USSR face off in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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United States troops invade Vietnam.
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National Organization for Women is formed. (NOW)
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Chapter 24 - An Age of Limits
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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United States astronauts walk on the moon.
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United States signs cease-fire with North Vietnam and Vietcong.
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Chapter 25 - The Conservative Tide
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President Reagan and the Soviet leader sign the Inermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
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Chapter 26 - The United States in Today's World
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Terrorists attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon with hijacked jets.
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United States forces invade Iraq.
