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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 1
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War 2
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall plan
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NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenberg trial
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22nd Amendment
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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
Containment-foreign policy strategy
Arm race/space race-competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare
The union of soviet Socialist Republic-post-revolutionary Russia
Communism-political and economic system of classes-less society (all equal)
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1990's-21 century