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first industrial revolution
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revolutionary period
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age of imperialism
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victorian era
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second industrial revolution
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the gilded age
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timeline
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technologic revolution
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the progressive era
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plessy vs Ferguson
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World War One
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the roaring 20s
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the Great Depression
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world war 2
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the domino theory
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. -
containment
.containment: A policy of checking the expansion or influence of a hostile power or ideology, as by the creation of strategic alliances or support of client states in areas of conflict or unrest. -
arms race space race
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the union of soviets
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR. -
communism
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United Nations formed
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contemporary period
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Cold War
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sweet vs painter
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truman doctrine
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marshall plan
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Berlin airlift
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nato established
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brown vs the board of education
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korean war
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Rosenbergs trial
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22nd amendment
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik