Honors American Civilization 10 Vocabulary List
Chapter 14
14-1
Woodrow Wilson
Imperialism
Foreign Policy
International Relations
Sphere of Influence
Open Door Policy
The Mexican Revolution
Victoriano Huerta
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
World War I
Causes of World War I
(Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism,
Nationalism, Economic Competition, and
Personal Rivalry)
The Alliance System
Triple Alliance
The Naval Race
Militarism
Triple Entente
Nationalism
Self-Determination
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Black Hand
Ultimatum
“Blank Check”
Allies
Central Powers
Neutrality
Unrestricted submarine warfare
U-boat
Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
Zimmerman Telegram
14-2
Conscription
Selective Service
Army Nursing Corps
War Industries Board
Victory Gardens
Daylight savings time
Liberty and Victory Bonds
National War Labor Board
Great Migration
Committee on Public Information
Civil Liberties curtailed
Schenck v. The United States
14-3
“No man’s land”
New weapons
Poison gas, Machine gun
Airplanes, Tanks
Doughboys
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Armistice
The Big Four
Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Wilson
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Map Changes
New Countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, and
Yugoslavia)
Reparations
Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate rejection
of Versailles
14-4
Calvin Coolidge
Economic troubles and labor strikes
Red Scare
Communist International
A. Mitchell Palmer
J. Edgar Hoover
Chapter 15
15-1
Intolerance
Nativism
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Anarchists
Eugenics
Ku Klux Klan
Limits on Immigration
Emergency Quota
The New Morality
Flappers
Margaret Mead
Fundamentalism
Evolution vs. Creationism
Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson
Scopes Trial
American Civil Liberties Union
The Charleston
Prohibition
Volstead Act
Police Powers
Speakeasies
Organized Crime
Al Capone and Eliot Ness
15-2
Charles Lindbergh
Greenwich Village
Bohemian
Modern Art
Edward Hopper
Poets and Writers
Carl Sandburg
T.S. Eliot
Ernst Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Professional Sports
Babe Ruth
“Black” Sox
Jack Dempsey
Rise of Hollywood
Silent Films
Early Hollywood Personalities
Mass Media
Radio
15-3
Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
African-American Authors
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
The Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Cotton Club
The Blues
Bessie Smith
Paul Robeson
Josephine Baker
African-American Politics
Oscar DePriest
Voting Blocs
NAACP
Lynching
Black Nationalism
Marcus Garvey
Chapter 16
16-1
Warren G. Harding
“Return to Normalcy”
The Ohio Gang
Albert Fall
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harry Daugherty
Immunity
Calvin Coolidge
“Silent Cal”
“Keep Cool With Coolidge”
Election of 1924
The Progressive Party
Robert La Follette
16-2
Henry Ford
Economic Advances
Per Capita Earnings
Work Day Changes
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Division of Labor/Specialization
Model T (“Tin Lizzie” “Flivver”)
Social Impact of the Automobile
Consumer Goods Industry
New Products
Airline Industry
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
The Radio Industry
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
The Consumer Society
Easy Consumer Credit
Mass Advertising
Managerial Revolution
Welfare Capitalism
Open Shop
The Farm Crisis Returns
Changing Market Conditions
Ways of Helping Farmers
16-3
Andrew Mellon
Mellon Program
Goals of the Program
Demand vs. Supply-Side Economics
Cooperative Individualism
Trade and Arms Control
Isolationism
The Dawes Plan
The Washington Conference
Charles Evans Hughes
Moratorium
Five Power Naval Limitation Treaty
Four-Power Treaty
Nine-Power Treaty
Peace Movements
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Economics
Economics
Scarcity
Wants vs Needs
Trade-Off
Opportunity Cost
Types of Businesses
Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, and
Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Discount and Prime Rate
Reserve Requirements
Inflation/Deflation
Capitalism
Adam Smith and Wealth of Nations
Mercantilism
Self-Interest
Laissez-faire
Invisible Hand
Competition
Market Forces
Laws of Supply and Demand
Concept of “Market”
Equilibrium Price
Elastic and Inelastic Demand
Utility
Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility
Private Property
Free Market
Free Enterprise
Socialism
Communism
Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto
View of history
Bourgeoisie vs Proletariat
Alienation: Appendage of the Machine
Exploitation
Worldwide Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
Theoretical vs Actual Communism
Business Cycle
Upturn, Upswing, Recovery
Boom, Peak
Downturn, Downswing
Recession
Depression
Sanction
Embargo
Boycott
Chapter 17
17-1
The Election of 1928
Hebert Hoover
Alfred Smith
Campaign Issue
Alcohol view
Religion
The Long Bull Market
Stock Market
Stocks
Shareholders
*Dividends
*Price-to-Earnings Ratio
Bull Market
*Bear Market
Margin
Margin Call
Speculation
Stockbroker
The Great Depression
The Great Crash
Black Tuesday
*Dow Jones
*New York Stock Exchange
Banking Crisis
Problems created by Market crash
“Run” on Banks
Bank failures
Roots of the Great Depression
Recession
Overproduction
Unequal distribution of Income
Installment Plan
*“Snowball-Avalanche” Effect
Loss of export sales
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Mistakes by the Federal Reserve
East vs. Tight Money
Interest Rates
17-2
The Depression Worsens
Statistics of the Great Depression
Bread Lines
Soup Kitchens
Mortgages/Evictions/Foreclosures
Bailiffs
Shantytowns
“Hooverville”
Hobos
The Dust Bowl
“Okies”
Escaping the Depression
Hollywood – Movies
Groucho Marx – Marx Brothers
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
Walt Disney
Snow White
MGM’s Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Gone with the Wind
Importance of the Radio
Jack Benny
The Lone Ranger
Soap Operas
The Depression in Art
Subjects
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood
American Gothic
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother
Margaret Bourke-White
Time Magazine
Life Magazine
17-3
Promoting Recovery
Public works
Views of Government’s role in the Economy:
Hoover vs. Roosevelt
Government Spending and Deficit Spending
Pumping Money into the Economy
“Shortage of Money”
National Credit Corporation (NCC)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Relief money
Emergency Relief and Construction Act
In an Angry Mood
Hunger Marches
Farmer’s Revolt
Foreclosure
The Bonus Army
Chapter 18
18-1
Roosevelt
Depression
New Deal
Polio
Gold Standard
Bank Holidays
“The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself”
18-2
Hundred Days
Fireside Chats
Fixing Banking and the StockMarket
SEC
FDIC
Helping Farms and Industry
AAA
NIRA
NRA
Providing Debt Relief
HOLC
FCA
Spending and Relief Programs
CCC
PWA
CWA
18-3
Harry Hopkins
American Liberty League
Huey Long
Father Coughlin
Townsend Plan
Second New Deal
WPA
Schechter vs. United States
Rise of Industrial Unions
NLRB
CIO
Sit-Down Strikes
Social Security Act
18-4
Changes and political realignment in FDR’s
2nd Term
Frances Perkins
Election of 1936
Union Party
Court Packing
Henry Morgenthau
Harold Ickes
Supply-Side Economics
Trickle-Down Theory
John Maynard Keynes
National Housing Act
Fair Labor Standards
Legacy of the New Deal
The Broker State
Safety Net
Entitlement Programs
Chapter 19
19-1
Rise of Dictators
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Blackshirts
Il Duce
USSR
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Nazi (National Socialist German Worker’s) Party
Brownshirts (SA)
Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Anti-Semitic
Lebensraum
Hindenberg
Chancellor
Reichstag Fire
Japanese Militarists
Manchuria
Nye Committee
Neutrality Act of 1935
Francisco Franco
Spanish Civil War
Anti-Comintern Pact
Axis Powers
FDR
Internationalism vs. Isolationalism
19-2
Austria
The Anschluss
Czechoslovakia
Neville Chamberlain
Munich Crisis
Appeasement
“Peace with Honour, Peace in Our Time,”
Danzig Corridor
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Poland
France
Sitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Dunkirk
Winston Churchill
Luftwaffe
Hermann Goerring
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
19-3
Holocaust
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
The SS
Gestapo
Anne Frank
Joseph Goebbels
SS St. Louis
Wannsee Conference
Concentration and extermination camps
Auschwitz
19-4
Neutrality Act of 1939
Destroyers-for-bases deal
America First Committee
Isolationism
Fight for Freedom Committee
Election of 1940
Lend-Lease Act
“Arsenal of Democracy”
Hemispheric defense zone
Atlantic Charter
Reuben James
American embargo of Japan
Strategic materials
Japanese invasion of China
Pearl Harbor
Chapter 20
20-1
Converting to a war economy
Cost-plus contracts
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Tanks replace cars
Liberty ship
The Wartime Production Board (WPB)
Office of War Mobilization (OWN)
Selective Service and Training Act
“G.I.’s”
“Double V” campaign
Tuskegee Airmen
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
20-2
Chester Nimitz
Fall of the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Death March
Corregidor
“I Shall Return”
James Doolittle and the Doolittle Raid
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Attacking the Periphery
Invasion of North Africa
George Patton
Battle of Kasserine Pass
Rommel – the Desert Fox
Montgomery
El Alamein
Battle of the Atlantic
Convoy system
Stalingrad
20-3
“Rosie the Riveter”
Wartime Workers
A. Philip Randolph
Bracero Program
Migration inside America
Sunbelt
“Great Migration”
Zoot Suit Riots
Victory suit
Japanese Internment Camps
Rationing
Victory gardens
E bonds
20-4
Casablanca Conference
Strategic bombing
“Soft Underbelly”
DUKW
Invasion of Italy
Cassino and Anzio
Tehran Conference
Operation Overlord
General George Marshall
General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower
D-Day
“The Longest Day”
Island Hopping
Guadalcanal
Return to the Philippines
Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze
20-5
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Harry S Truman
Iwo Jima
Curtis LeMay
Napalm
Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Einstein’s Letter
Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Leslie Groves
Los Alamos
Enola Gay
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Debate over decision to drop the Atomic Bomb
V-J Day
United Nations (UN)
UN Security Council
International Military Tribunal (IMT)
Nuremburg Trials
Crimes against Humanity
Chapter 21
21-1
Cold War
The Yalta Conference
Dividing Germany
The Potsdam Conference
The Iron Curtain Descends
Satellite nations
“Eastern Bloc”
21-2
The Long Telegram
George Kennan
Containment
The Truman Doctrine
Dean Acheson
The Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall
The Berlin Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Creation of Israel
Arab-Israeli Conflict
NATO
Communist Revolution in China
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Nationalists
Taiwan
Korean War
38th parallel
Pusan Perimeter
MacArthur
Inchon Landing
Limited war
Truman fires MacArthur
21-3
New Red Scare
The House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss spy case
The Rosenbergs
Project Venona
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
Censure
“Duck and Cover”
Fallout
Fallout shelters
21-4
Eisenhower’s “NewLook”
Massive retaliation
MAD policy
The Sputnik Crisis
NASA
Brinkmanship
John Foster Dulles
The Suez Crisis
CIA
Covert action against communism
Developing Nations
Uprising in Hungary
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris Peace Summit
U-2 Spy Plane Incident
Francis Gary Powers
Military industrial complex
Chapter 22
22-1
GI Bill
Taft-Hartley Act
Closed and Union shops
Election of 1948
Strom Thurmond
Dixiecrat
Thomas Dewey
“Dewey defeats Truman”
Truman vs. Congress
Fair Deal
Election of 1952
Dwight Eisenhower
“Everybody likes Ike”
Checkers Speech
Dynamic Conservatism
Federal Highway Act
22-2
1950’s Family Values Image
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Affluent Society
White collar and blue collar jobs
Multi-national corporations
Franchises
Consumerism
New Suburbia
Levittown
Baby Boom
1st computers
ENIAC and UNIVAC
Antibiotics
Jonas Salk and Polio vaccine
Catching up to Sputnik
22-3
Mass Media
Rise of Television
21-Quiz show scandal
Changes in Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe and James Dean
Revival of Radio
Rock n’ Roll
Elvis Presley
Generation Gap
Allen Ginsburg
Jack Kerouac
Nat King Cole
Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Little Richard
22-4
Poverty Line
Michael Harrington
“The Other America”
Slums and Urban renewal
Bracero Program
Juvenile Delinquency
Chapter 23
23-1
John F. Kennedy (JFK)
Background of Kennedy Family
Camelot
Election of 1960
Kennedy vs. Nixon Debate
“Missile Gap”
Kennedy Inaugural Address “Ask Not What Your
Country Can Do…”
New Frontier
Earl Warren
Reapportionment
Baker V. Carr
Due Process
Mapp v. Ohio
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
School Prayer Issue
Engel v. Vitale
Abington v. Schempp
23-2
“Flexible response”
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Space Race
Apollo Missions
“The Eagle has Landed”
Neil Armstrong and “One Small Step…..”
Communist revolution in Cuba
Castro and Batista
Bay of Pigs Invasion
2nd Berlin Crisis
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Blockade
Missile Deal
Fall of Khrushchev
Kennedy Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Warren Commission
23-3
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson’s leadership style
War on Poverty
Election of 1964
Barry Goldwater
The Great Society
Medicare and Medicaid
Project Head Start
Housing and Urban Development
Legacy of the Great Society
Chapter 24
24-1
“Separate but Equal”
Plessy v. Fuergeson
De facto and De Jure segregation
Prejudice and discrimination
NAACP
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Sit-ins
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Southern Manifesto
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Little Rock Crisis
Orval Faubus
Civil Rights Act of 1957
24-2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
Freedom Riders
James Meredith
Ross Barnett
Violence in Birmingham
George Wallace
“Segregation: Now, tomorrow, forever”
March on Washington
“I Have a Dream” Speech
Filibuster and Cloture
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Poll Taxes
Selma March
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24-3
Watts Riots
Kermer Commission
Chicago Movement
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Cultural assimilation
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 25
25-1
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh (trail)
Vietminh
France
United States
Domino Theory
Guerrillas
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
25-2
Vietcong
Strategic Hamlets
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Robert McNamara
McGeorge Bundy
Operation Rolling Thunder
Napalm
Agent Orange
Ho Chi Minh Trail
25-3
Credibility Gap
William Westmoreland
Dean Rusk
Teach-in
Hawks and Doves
Students for a Domestic Society (SDS)
Tet Offensive
Eugene McCarthy
Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
James Earl Ray
Robert Kennedy assassination
Sirhan Sirhan
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphery
George Wallace
25-4
Henry Kissinger
Linkage
Vietnamization
My Lai
Kent State University
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon Papers
Nguyen Van Thieu
Christmas Bombings
South Vietnam Falls
POW and MIA
War Powers Act
Chapter 26
26-1
Liberalism
1960’s Clash of Values/Generations
Youth Movement
Students for a Democratic Society
Port Huron Statement
Tom Hayden
Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio
The Counter Culture
Hippies
Communes
Haight-Ashbury district
Unification Church
Hare Krishna
Moonies
New Fashions
Pop art
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Bob Dylan
Beatles
Woodstock
26-2
Feminism
The National Women’s Party
President’s commission on the status of Women
Equal Pay Act
Title VII
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Betty Friedan
National Organization for Women
Gloria Steinem
Kathy Striebel
Title IX
Roe v. Wade
Equal rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
26-3
Affirmative Action
Regents v. Bakke
Busing
Jesse Jackson
Congressional Black Caucus
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Bilingualism
American Indian Movement
26-4
DDT spraying
Rachel Carson
Smog
Environmental Movement
Earth Day
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act
Endangered Species Act
Lois Gibbs
Fossil Fuels
Three Mile Island
Ralph Nader
Unsafe at Any Speed
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
Chapter 27
27-1
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Southern Strategy
Warren Burger
New Federalism
Revenue Sharing