US History Final
Study Guide
New Deal
Franklin Delano RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt
Fireside Chats
1st 100 Days
3 R’s
FDIC
AAA
CCC
NIRA/NRA
Wagner Act
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
WPA
NYA
SEC
TVA
Supreme Court Packing
Father Coughlin/Huey Long
2nd New Deal
Frances Perkins
Mary McLeod Bethune
Black Cabinet
Civil Rights in the New Deal
Movies
Orson Welles
Federal Art Project
American Gothic
Grapes of Wrath
Lasting Effects of the New Deal
Social Security
Tennessee Valley Authority
California Central Valley Project /
WWII
TotalitarianismFascism
Nazism (National Socialist German Workers Party)
Adolf Hitler
Treaty of Versailles failures
Hitler’s Rise to Power
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Neville Chamberlin
Winston Churchill
Appeasement
Nonaggression Pact
Neutrality Acts
Reasons for Isolationism
Reasons for Involvement
Lend-Lease Program
Charles de Gaulle
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Four Freedoms Speech
Japanese-American Internment (Korematsu…)
American reaction to Holocaust
Manhattan Project
The A-Bomb
War Production Board
Rationing
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Migration in America
Workers Change
GI Bill of Rights
Zoot Suit Riots
CORE
Dr. Seuss
Liberty or War bonds
Unions, Wages and Prices
USO
Family Problems
Spanish Civil War
A. Phillip Randolph
James Farmer /
Cold War
The Iron CurtainYalta Conference/Potsdam Meeting
NATO vs Warsaw Pact
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Domino Theory
The Marshall Plan/Molotov Plan
Berlin Blockade
Korean War
MAD
Sputnik
Cuban Missile Crisis
End of the Cold War
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Invasion of Hungary
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Kitchen Debates
Bay of Pigs
The United Nations
The 50’s
GI BillBaby Boom
Suburbia
Materialism/Consumerism
Family stereotypes
Polio and Vaccines
Bomb Shelters
Communist Hunting/Spies
Hollywood Ten
Joe McCarthy
HUAC
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
Truman/Eisenhower
Planned Obsolescence
Dr. Spock
Beatnik
Rock n’ Roll
TV
Teenagers
The urban poor
Braceros
Termination policy
Civil Rights
African-American Civil RightsRosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Huey Newton
The Little Rock Nine
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Bull Connor
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Riders
Brown v Board of Education
Boston Busing
Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act
Kennedy & Johnson
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black Panthers
Jim Crow
Literacy Tests
Nation of Islam
Black Power
Latino Civil Rights
Cesar ChavezUnited Farm Workers
Grape Boycott
Womens’ Civil Rights
Betty FriedanFeminine Mystique
Gloria Steinam
National Organization of Women
Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
Roe v Wade
American Indian Civil Rights
American Indian MovementAlcatraz occupation
The Longest Walk
Wounded Knee II
Gay Civil Rights
Gay MarriageHarvey Milk /
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Stages of the Wara. Early 1940s: supplies against the Japanese
b. 1948-60: money against the Communist North
c. 1960-1964: military advisors “teach” the ARVN how to fight
d. 1964-1968: massive numbers of US troops; we’re “winning”
e. 1968-1970: looking for a way out, deeper we go
f. 1970-1973: “Vietnamization”
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1st Guerrilla war
Ho Chi Minh Trail
War of Attrition & Bodycounts
My Lai Massacre
Television War
Tet Offensive
Posttraumatic Stress (Disorder)
Domino Theory
Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
General Westmoreland
Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
Our Simulation
In the US: Protest and Counterculture
Mario SavioStudents for a Democratic Society
Doves & Hawks
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Silent Majority
Pentagon Papers
Henry Kissinger
War Powers Act / The 70s
Stagflation
Inflation
Unemployment
OPEC
Oil Embargo
Watergate
Richard Nixon
Woodward and Bernstein
Deep Throat
Haldeman/Erlichman/Dean
CREEP
Gerald Ford
Roe v. Wade
Back Alley Abortions
Pro Choice
Pro Life
1st Trimester
Reagan Revolution
Reaganomics
Trickle-Down Theory
Moral Majority
New Right
Ronald Reagan
Barry Goldwater
Milton Friedman
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1953 Coup
1979 Iranian Revolution
Jimmy Carter
Ayatollah Khomeini
Shah Pahlavi
The Environment
Love Canal
Superfund
EPA
Silent Spring