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Containmen. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. -
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Arms Race/Space Race. The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. -
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The Gilded Age
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. -
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The Progressive Era
Communism Communism is a philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of -
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Imperialism
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World War I
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 -
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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World War Il
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Early Cold War