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Industrial Revolution
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a period during which machines replaced hand tools, and steam and electricity took the place of human and animal power
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Great Depression
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a period lasting from 1929-1940 in which the US economy was in a severe decline and millions were unemployed
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Harlem Renaissance
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flowering of African-American creativity during the 1920's
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New Deal
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Franklin Roosevelt's program to solve the problems of the Great Depression, concentrating on relief for the needy, economic recovery and financial reform
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Enlightenment
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an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries marked by a celebration of human reason, an interest in science, religious toleration, and designing governments free of tyranny
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French Revolution
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a revolution that ended the thousand-year reign of kings in France
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Russian Revolution
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during 1917-1918 the Czar was overthrown and the Bolsheviks/Communists came to power
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Cold War
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post-WW2 time period when there was a political and economic struggle between democratic nations and Communist nations
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World War I
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1914-1918 with the Central Powers against the Allied Powers
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World War II
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1939-1945 with the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers
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