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Final Exam
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Industrial Era
A social or economical system built on manufacturing industries. -
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Imperialism Era
The policy of so uniting the separate parts of an empire with separate governments as to secure for certain purposes a single state. -
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Progressive Era
principles and practices of progressives. -
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Roaring Twenties
The rapidly growing automobile industry led by Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produced new and better models every year to supply the insatiable public demand. During the 1920's, America's entire economy had changed drastically.
The men had left for war and never returned. Women started to dress and act differently, and the movies were better than before. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
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World War II
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths -
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Cold War
the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster. -
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The Fifties
Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was born to a poor family in East Tupelo, Mississippi. When he was a teenager, the Presleys moved to Memphis, where Elvis graduated from high school and took a job as a truck driver. He infused black rhythm-and-blues songs with his distinctive style. -
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Vietnam War
More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians. By 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict. -
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Civil Rights Era
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine that formed the basis for state-sanctioned discrimination, drawing national and international attention to African Americans’ plight. The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on December 1, 1955. By the late 1960s, organizations such as the NAACP, SCLC, andSNCC faced increasingly strong challenges from new militant organizations, such as the Black Panther party.