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Rise to world power (1890-1945)

The age of empire

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Introduction to the age of empire
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The age of empire
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The Spanish-American War
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The Progressives
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The Progressive Era
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The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
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Muckrakers
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ImperialismGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!
ProgressivismGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

The United States in World War I

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The presidency of Woodrow Wilson
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Blockades, u-boats and sinking of the Lusitania
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Zimmermann Telegram
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United States enters World War I
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World War I: Homefront
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The United States in World War I
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
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More detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany
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The League of Nations
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The Treaty of Versailles
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The First World WarGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

1920s America

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The Nineteenth Amendment
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1920s urbanization and immigration
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The reemergence of the KKK
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Prohibition
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Republican ascendancy: politics in the 1920s
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The presidency of Calvin Coolidge
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1920s consumption
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Movies, radio, and sports in the 1920s
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American culture in the 1920s
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Nativism and fundamentalism in the 1920s
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America in the 1920sGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

The Great Depression

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The presidency of Herbert Hoover
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The Great Depression
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FDR and the Great Depression
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The New Deal
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World War II

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Beginning of World War II
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1940 - Axis gains momentum in World War II
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1941 Axis momentum accelerates in WW2
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Pearl Harbor
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FDR and World War II
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Japanese internment
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American women and World War II
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1942 Tide turning in World War II in Europe
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World War II in the Pacific in 1942
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1943 Axis losing in Europe
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American progress in the Pacific in 1944
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1944 - Allies advance further in Europe
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1945 - End of World War II
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The Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb
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The United Nations
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Shaping American national identity from 1890 to 1945
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The Second World WarGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

About this unit

At the end of the 19th century, the industrial might of the United States propelled it into great power status. In the early 20th century, the United States grappled with its new role in the world and the effects of the second Industrial Revolution at home.