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World War II
World War II was the central event of the twentieth century. It involved all six major continents, all three of the great...
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1945 to the Present
No event proved more important to the course of modern American history than World War II. The war cast America onto the world stage as a...
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Empire Building
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History Times: A Nation of Immigrants
Coming to the Land of Opportunity
Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...
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The Open Door Policy and the Boxer War: The US and China
By 1899, the United States had become a world power. It was not only the world’s greatest industrial nation, but in the war with...
Glossary Term – Event
Russian government overthrown
Bolshevik socialists—soon to be known as Communists—seized power in Russia.
Glossary Term – Event
Russian withdrawal from war
The new Bolshevik Russian government agreed to an armistice with Germany.
Glossary Term – Organization
Allies
In World War I, the Allied forces were initially composed of Britain, France, Belgium, Serbia, and Russia, with Japan, Italy, the United States, and fifteen other nations joining the alliance before the war’s end.
Glossary Term – Organization
Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks were the dominant political power in Russia after the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party seized control of that country’s government in 1917. The Bolsheviks (“Bolshevik” meaning “one of the majority”) were anti-feudal revolutionaries who were described in the United States as radical, anti-capitalist socialists. Under the leadership of Vladimir Leninm the Bolsheviks changed their party name to the “Russian Communist Party” in 1918 (and later to the “Communist Party of the Soviet Union”). In the United States, charges...