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A New Industrial Age
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Immigrants and Urbanization
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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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The Progressive Era
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America Claims an Empire
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Wright Brothers
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The First World War
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18th Amendment
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Politics of the Roaring Twenties
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The Roaring Life of the 1920s
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The Great Depression
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World War Looms
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Hitler and the Nazi party
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The New Deal
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Germany Invades
Germany invades Poland in 1939 -
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The United States in World War II
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World War II
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Cold War Conflicts
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Japan Surrenders
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The Postwar Boom
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Korean War
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Civil Rights
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The Vietnam War Years
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The New Frontier and the Great Society
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An Era of Social Change
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Women's Rights
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An Age of Limits
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MLK assasination
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Man on the Moon
United States astronaut first steps foot on the moon in 1969 -
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The Conservative Tide
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The United States in Today's World
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9/11
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The United States forces invade Iraq in 2003. -
U.S signs cease-fire
In 1973, the United States signs cease-fire with North Vietnam and Vietcong.