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'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | '''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | ||
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== General terms to know for US History == | == General terms to know for US History == | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:chain migration|migration that follows existing personal, usually family, or other connections, such as a job skill or labor organization, thus a "chain" }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:chain migration|migration that follows existing personal, usually family, or other connections, such as a job skill or labor organization, thus a "chain" }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:class warfare|political posturing by emphasizing differences between social and economic classes; historically, a Democratic political strategy}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:class warfare|political posturing by emphasizing differences between social and economic classes; historically, a Democratic political strategy}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:''de facto'' v. ''de jure''|"in fact" v. "in law"; ''de facto'' means something that exists in practice; whereas ''de jure'' means a practice according to law}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:''de facto'' v. ''de jure''|"in fact" v. "in law"; ''de facto'' means something that exists in practice; whereas ''de jure'' means a practice according to law; examples of ''de facto'' v. ''de jure'' conditions include continued discrimination after bans on legal racial segregation, continued use of alcohol despite its legal ban under the 19th amendment, etc.}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:delegate (as noun and verb)|n: a representative to a political body; v. to assign or pass along a task, power, or sovereignty}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:delegate (as noun and verb)|n: a representative to a political body; v. to assign or pass along a task, power, or sovereignty}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:direct tax|a tax that is applied "directly" to persons as opposed to an activity or material; the income tax is a "direct" tax, which required Constitutional amendment to allow under the law}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:direct tax|a tax that is applied "directly" to persons as opposed to an activity or material; the income tax is a "direct" tax, which required Constitutional amendment to allow under the law}}</ul></li> | ||
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== Great Depression & FDR == | == Great Depression & FDR == | ||
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* Black Monday | * Black Monday | ||
* Black Thursday | * Black Thursday | ||
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff | * Hawley-Smoot Tariff | ||
* Hoovervilles | * Hoovervilles | ||
=== FDR & New Deal === | === FDR & New Deal === | ||
* 100 Days | |||
* 20th Amendment | |||
* 21st Amendment | |||
* fireside chats | |||
* NRA | |||
* "New Deal" | |||
* Social Security | * Social Security | ||
* Supreme Court | * Supreme Court | ||
=== Roosevelt | === Roosevelt Administration/s === | ||
* Brain Trust | * Brain Trust | ||
* Francis Perkins | |||
* Harry Hopkins | * Harry Hopkins | ||
* | * | ||
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* America First Committee | * America First Committee | ||
* appeasement | * appeasement | ||
* Battle of Britain | |||
* “cash and carry” | * “cash and carry” | ||
* election of 1940 | * election of 1940 | ||
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* Munich Agreement | * Munich Agreement | ||
* "Peace for our time" | * "Peace for our time" | ||
* Sudetenland | * Poland invasion | ||
* Sudetenland | |||
* U.S. Neutrality Acts | |||
* "war footing" | * "war footing" | ||
* war preparations | * war preparations | ||
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* Manhattan Project | * Manhattan Project | ||
* mechanized warfare | * mechanized warfare | ||
* propaganda | * propaganda | ||
* rationing | * rationing | ||
* recycling | * recycling | ||
* Rosie the | * Rosie the Riviter | ||
* Truman’s decision | * Truman’s decision | ||
* "Victory Gardens" | * "Victory Gardens" | ||
* war bonds | * war bonds | ||
Post-War plans/ conferences | |||
* Potsdam Conference | |||
* Tehran Conference | |||
* Yalta Conference | * Yalta Conference | ||
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=== Post-WWII === | |||
* 22nd amendment | |||
* Nuremburg Trials | |||
* United Nations</div> | |||
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