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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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communism
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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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Containment
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berlin airlift
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NATO
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Domino Theroy
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Korean war
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Civil right era
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Rosenberg trails
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First H bomb denoted
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Vietnam war
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Arms races/space race
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Jonas salks invents polio vaccine
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USSR launches Sputnik
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End of the cold war
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1990's-21st century
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The soviet union socialist republicans
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