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BOOKModern Era

The Age of Extremes

by Eric Hobsbawm

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8 minAudioModern Era
EVENTUnited States and the Moon
July 1969

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

United States and the Moon

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7 minAudioModern Era
EVENTBerlin, East Germany
November 1989

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Berlin, East Germany

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BOOKModern Era

Postwar

by Tony Judt

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EVENTUnited States and worldwide
1929 to 1939

The Great Depression

United States and worldwide

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EVENTSan Francisco and worldwide
1945

The Founding of the United Nations

San Francisco and worldwide

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8 minAudioModern Era
EVENTWestern Europe and the United States
1948 to 1952

The Marshall Plan

Western Europe and the United States

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7 minAudioModern Era
EVENTUnited States and the Soviet Union
1957 to 1975

The Space Race

United States and the Soviet Union

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7 minAudioModern Era
EVENTUnited States
1954 to 1968

The Civil Rights Movement

United States

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EVENTSoviet Union and Eastern Europe
1989 to 1991

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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7 minAudioModern Era
EVENTWorldwide
1918 to 1920

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Worldwide

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BOOKModern Era

Say Nothing

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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BOOKModern Era

The Guns of August: How a Continent Talked Itself Into Catastrophe

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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4 minAudioModern Era
EVENTCuba, United States, Soviet Union
October 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba, United States, Soviet Union

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4 minAudioModern Era
EVENTFrance
1789 to 1799

The French Revolution

France

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3 minAudioModern Era