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== Pre-Columbian ==
== Colonial Periods ==


== Colonial Period ==
=== Pre-Columbian ===
 
=== Colonial ===
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<div style="column-count:3">
* Bacon’s Rebellion
* Bacon’s Rebellion
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</div>


== American Revolution ==
=== American Revolution ===
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* Boston Massacre
* Boston Massacre
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== Articles of Confederation Period ==
 
== Early Republic ==
 
=== Articles of Confederation Period ===
* Articles of Confederation
* Articles of Confederation
* Shay’s Rebellion
* Shay’s Rebellion
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* unicameral
* unicameral


== U.S. Constitution ==
=== U.S. Constitution ===
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<div style="column-count:3">
* 3/5ths Compromise
* 3/5ths Compromise
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</div>
</div>


== Early Republic ==
=== Early Republic ===
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<div style="column-count:3">
* 12th Amendment
* 12th Amendment
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</div>
</div>


== Jacksonian period ==
== Antebellum ==
 
=== Jacksonian period ===
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<div style="column-count:3">
* John Quincy Adams
* John Quincy Adams
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<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
== Antebellum ==
=== Antebellum ===
 
===Social reform ===
===Social reform ===
* cult of domesticity
* cult of domesticity
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* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
</div>
</div>
== Civil War ==  
== Latter 19th Century ==
 
=== Civil War ===
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<div style="column-count:2">
* 1860 Election
* 1860 Election
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</div>
</div>
== Reconstruction ==
 
=== Reconstruction ===
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<div style="column-count:2">
* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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</div>
</div>


== Post-Reconstruction ==
=== Post-Reconstruction ===
<div style="column-count:3">
<div style="column-count:3">
== Economic & Political ==
=== Economic & Political ===
* Andrew Carnegie
* Andrew Carnegie
* Battle of Wounded Knee
* Battle of Wounded Knee
* bimetallism
* bimetallism
* Chinese Exclusion Act
* Chinese Exclusion Act
* Dawes Act /assimilation
* Dawes Act /assimilation
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* “Big Stick Policy”
* “Big Stick Policy”
* Cuba
* Cuba
* de Lôme Letter,  
* de Lôme Letter,
* imperialism
* imperialism
* William McKinley
* William McKinley
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* USS Maine
* USS Maine
</div>
</div>
== Progressive Era ==
 
== First half 20th Century ==
 
=== Progressive Era ===
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<div style="column-count:2">
* "Square Deal”
* "Square Deal”
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</div>
</div>
== World War I ==
 
=== World War I era ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">


* 21st & 22nd  Amendments
* Black Tuesday
* Court-packing scheme
* deficit spending
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Dust Bowl
* Harlem Renaissance
* Hoover
* Hoovervilles
* League of Nations
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
* National Origins Act
* New Deal
* Proclamation of Neutrality
* prohibition
* pump-priming
* Red Scare
* return to ‘normalcy’
* Sacco and Vanzetti
* Scopes Trial
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Treaty of Versailles
** US Senate opposition
</div>
</div>
== 1920s ==
 
=== 1920s ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">


</div>
</div>


== Great Depression ==
=== Great Depression ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">


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== FDR & New Deal ==
 
=== FDR & New Deal ===


=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Brain Trust
* Brain Trust
* Harry Hopkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Francis Perkins
* Francis Perkins


== Worl
=== World War II ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* appeasement
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* Homefront
* Japanese Internment Camps
* Korematsu v. U.S.
* Nuremburg Trials
* Truman’s decision
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
</div>


== Cold War vocabulary ==
== Latter half 20th Century ==
 
<div style="column-count:2">
=== start of Cold War
=== Early Cold War ===
* Berlin crisis
* Berlin crisis
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* NSC-68
* ideology/ ideological
* capitalism  
* capitalism  
* Chiang Kai-shek
* China, loss of
* communism  
* communism  
* sphere/s of influence
* UK sterling crisis
* containment policy
* containment policy
* George F. Kennan  
* George F. Kennan  
* Greece
* ideology/ ideological
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Israel/ Palestine
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Mao Zedong
* Marshall Plan
* NATO
* NATO/Warsaw Pact
* NSC-68
* SEATO
* sphere/s of influence
* Suez Canal Crisis
* Truman Doctrine
* Truman Doctrine
* Greece
* Turkey
* Turkey
* Marshall Plan
* UK sterling crisis
* NATO
* Warsaw Pact
* Warsaw Pact
* China, loss of
* Mao Zedong
* Chiang Kai-shek
* Israel/ Palestine
* SEATO


=== atomic age ===
=== Atomic age ===
* German scientists
* German scientists
* testing
* testing
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* anti-ballistic missile
* anti-ballistic missile
* nuclear shield
* nuclear shield
=== Korean War ===
=== Korean War ===


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* third world
* third world
* nation-building
* nation-building
* Peace Corps


=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* containment
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* Eisenhower Doctrine
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* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA
* CIA
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
* Second Red Scare
* Second Red Scare
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* Rosenbergs
* Rosenbergs
* Alger Hiss
* Alger Hiss
* baby boom
* suburbia
* conformity
* Space Race
* Space Race
=== Cuban Missile Crisis ===
 
=== Kennedy ===
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Berlin Wall
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Domino Theory
* Bay of Pigs
* Bay of Pigs
Cu* ban Missile Crisis
* Hot-Line  
* Hot-Line  
* Robert F. Kennedy
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* quarantine v. blockade
* quarantine v. blockade
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* RFK
* Peace Corps


=== Vietnam War ===  
 
 
== Vietnam War ==
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* US involvement, 1959-1973
* US involvement, 1959-1973


==== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===  
=== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===
* Dien Bien Phu
* Dien Bien Phu


==== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ====
=== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ===
* JFK
* JFK
* Robert McNamara
* Robert McNamara
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* Camelot
* Camelot
* assassination
* assassination
==== Johnson period of Vietnam War ====
 
=== Johnson period of Vietnam War ===
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Tet Offensive
* Tet Offensive
* Walter Cronkite
* Walter Cronkite
* U.S. Public support of the War
* Vietnamization
* War Powers Acts
* Gulf of Tonkin
* Attrition
* Hearts and Minds
* Rolling Thunder
* My Lai Massacre
* Escalation


==== Nixon ====
=== Nixon period of Vietnam War ===
* Operation Linebacker II
* Christmas bombings
* "silent majority”
* "silent majority”
* Vietnamization
* Paris Peace Accords
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Paris Peace Accords
* Paris Peace Accords
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* Kissinger
* Kissinger
* Pentagon Papers
* Pentagon Papers
* Watergate
* White House protests
* White House protests
==== protest movements ====
 
==== Vietnam War protest movements ====
* draft, the
* draft, the
* hippies
* hippies
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* Jackson State
* Jackson State


==== post-Nixon =====
==== post-Nixon====
* Fall of Saigon
* Fall of Saigon
* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide


=== 1970s: Ford & Carter ===
== post-WWII Domestic U.S> ==
* baby boom
* suburbia
* conformity
* Interstate Highway Act
 
=== Civil Rights ===
* “Little Rock Nine”
* Brown v. Board of Education
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Malcolm X
* March on Washington
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Montgomery bus boycott
* nonviolence
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
=== Other Civil Rights Movements
* Roe v. Wade
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
* Cesar Chavez
* Grapes Boycott
* Chicano Movement
* American Indian Movement (AIM)
* Wounded Knee Incident
 
 
=== Johnson ===
* Great Society
* War on Poverty
 
 
=== 1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter ===
* Watergate
* pardoning of Nixon
* pardoning of Nixon
* stagflation
* stagflation
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* Olympic boycott
* Olympic boycott
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* OPEC
* oil embargo
* Camp David Accords
=== Reagan era ===
=== Reagan era ===
* Iran-Contra Affair
* John Stockton
* Landslide
* Star Wars
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* Iran-Contra Affair
* Reaganomics
* Supply-side economics
 
 
=== End of the Cold War ===
=== End of the Cold War ===
* HW Bush
* George HW Bush
* Gulf War
* Gulf War
* Bill Clinton
*
* NAFTA
* service sector economy
* New Immigration
* Haiti
* Yugoslavia and Bosnia
* Rwanda
== 21st Century ==
=== War on Terror ===
* September 11th
* Al Queda
* Afghanistan War
* Iraq
* Patriot Act
== Obama Administration ==
* Great Recession
* ISIS
* Affordable Care Act
* Obama Care
* DREAM Act
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US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events

Colonial Periods[edit | edit source]

Pre-Columbian[edit | edit source]

Colonial[edit | edit source]

  • Bacon’s Rebellion
  • headright system
  • House of Burgesses
  • indentured servitude
  • Jamestown- general characteristics
  • John Rolfe
  • John Smith
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • King Philip’s War
  • Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
  • Mercantilism
  • Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
  • Navigation Acts
  • New England town meetings
  • Pequot War
  • Puritans/intolerance
  • Queen Anne's War
  • Roanoke
  • salutary neglect
  • St. Augustine
  • the Great Awakening
  • William Penn

American Revolution[edit | edit source]

  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Common Sense
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Enlightenment philosophers
  • First Continental Congress
  • French and Indian War
  • John Locke
  • Lexington/Concord
  • Montesquieu
  • natural rights
  • Navigation Acts
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Saratoga
  • social contract theory
  • Thomas Paine
  • Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
  • Valley Forge
  • Yorktown
  • Continental Congress/es


Early Republic[edit | edit source]

Articles of Confederation Period[edit | edit source]

  • Articles of Confederation
  • Shay’s Rebellion
  • confederation
  • sovereignty
  • supermajority
  • unicameral

U.S. Constitution[edit | edit source]

  • 3/5ths Compromise
  • amendment process
  • anti-Federalists
  • bicameral
  • Bill of Rights
  • checks and balances
  • Connecticut Compromise
  • Constitution
  • elastic clause
  • electoral college
  • Federalists
  • Federalism
  • Federalist no. 10
  • Federalist no. 51
  • Federalist Papers
  • Federalists
  • George Washington
  • Great Compromise
  • impeachment
  • James Madison
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Northwest Ordinance
  • preamble
  • preamble to the Constitution
  • ratification
  • separation of powers
  • strict vs. loose interpretation
  • unwritten Constitution
  • Virginia Plan

Early Republic[edit | edit source]

  • 12th Amendment
  • American System
  • Cabinet
  • Democratic-Republicans
  • election of 1800
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Federalists
  • George Washington
  • Hamilton
  • impressment
  • Jefferson
  • John Marshall
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • McColluch v. Maryland
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Mossouri Compromise
  • National Bank
  • nullification
  • political parties
  • Republican motherhood
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • War of 1812
  • Whiskey Rebellion

Antebellum[edit | edit source]

Jacksonian period[edit | edit source]

  • John Quincy Adams
  • Bank War
  • Corrupt Bargain
  • Force Bill
  • Henry Clay
  • Jacksonian democracy
  • Indian Removal Act
  • Nullification Crisis
  • Petticoat affair
  • Postal Service
  • Panic of 1837
  • Second Party System
  • spoils system
  • Tariff of 1833
  • Trail of Tears
  • Daniel Webster
  • Worcester v. Georgia

Antebellum[edit | edit source]

Social reform[edit | edit source]

  • cult of domesticity
  • Declaration of Sentiments
  • emancipation
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • suffrage
  • transcendentalism
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin



Antebellum[edit | edit source]

  • Compromise of 1850
  • Dred Scott decision
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Gold Rush of 1849
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • manifest destiny
  • Mexican American War
  • popular sovereignty
  • sectionalism
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Latter 19th Century[edit | edit source]

Civil War[edit | edit source]

  • 1860 Election
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Appomattox
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Ft. Sumter
  • Gettysburg
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Lincoln’s pre-war stance on slavery
  • Sherman’s March
  • U.S. Grant

Reconstruction[edit | edit source]

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
  • black codes
  • Compromise of 1877
  • 40 acres and a mule
  • Freedman’s Bureau
  • grandfather clause
  • Jim Crow laws
  • literacy tests
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • poll taxes
  • Radical Republicans
  • Reconstruction Act of 1867
  • Reconstruction programs:
    • Lincoln's plans
    • Johnson's program
    • Congressional program

Post-Reconstruction[edit | edit source]

Economic & Political[edit | edit source]

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • bimetallism
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Dawes Act /assimilation
  • Gentlemen’s Agreement
  • Great Migration
  • Homestead Act of 1862
  • laissez-faire capitalism
  • melting pot
  • monopoly
  • nativism
  • Nelson Rockefeller
  • political bosses
  • political machine
  • Populist Party
  • robber barons
  • Sand Creek Massacre
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act
  • social Darwinism
  • Standard Oil
  • transcontinental railroad
  • U.S. Steel

Imperialism[edit | edit source]

  • Battle of Manila
  • “Big Stick Policy”
  • Cuba
  • de Lôme Letter,
  • imperialism
  • William McKinley
  • Open Door Policy
  • Panama Canal
  • Roosevelt Corollary
  • Spanish-American War
  • yellow journalism
  • USS Maine

First half 20th Century[edit | edit source]

Progressive Era[edit | edit source]

  • "Square Deal”
  • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Direct democracy
  • initiative
  • Jacob Riis
  • Jane Addams
  • Meat Inspection Act
  • muckrakers
  • Progressive Party
  • Progressives / progressivism
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • recall
  • referendum
  • Rule of Reason
  • Settlement houses
  • socialism
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft

World War I era[edit | edit source]

  • 21st & 22nd Amendments
  • Black Tuesday
  • Court-packing scheme
  • deficit spending
  • Depression of 1920-1921
  • Dust Bowl
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Hoover
  • Hoovervilles
  • League of Nations
  • Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
  • National Origins Act
  • New Deal
  • Proclamation of Neutrality
  • prohibition
  • pump-priming
  • Red Scare
  • return to ‘normalcy’
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
  • Scopes Trial
  • Social Security
  • Supreme Court
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Treaty of Versailles
    • US Senate opposition

1920s[edit | edit source]

Great Depression[edit | edit source]


FDR & New Deal[edit | edit source]

Roosevelt Administrations[edit | edit source]

  • Brain Trust
  • Harry Hopkins
  • Francis Perkins

World War II[edit | edit source]

  • “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
  • appeasement
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  • Homefront
  • Japanese Internment Camps
  • Korematsu v. U.S.
  • Nuremburg Trials
  • Truman’s decision
  • U.S. Neutrality Acts
  • United Nations

Latter half 20th Century[edit | edit source]

Early Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • Berlin crisis
  • capitalism
  • Chiang Kai-shek
  • China, loss of
  • communism
  • containment policy
  • George F. Kennan
  • Greece
  • ideology/ ideological
  • Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
  • Israel/ Palestine
  • Long Telegram / Article “X”
  • Mao Zedong
  • Marshall Plan
  • NATO
  • NATO/Warsaw Pact
  • NSC-68
  • SEATO
  • sphere/s of influence
  • Suez Canal Crisis
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Turkey
  • UK sterling crisis
  • Warsaw Pact

Atomic age[edit | edit source]

  • German scientists
  • testing
  • atmosphere
  • bombers
  • A-bomb
  • H-bomb
  • brinkmanship
  • ICBM
  • Nike missile system
  • MAD/ mutually-assured destruction
  • anti-ballistic missile
  • nuclear shield

Korean War[edit | edit source]

Cold War diplomacy[edit | edit source]

  • United Nations
  • unaligned nations
  • third world
  • nation-building

Eisenhower period[edit | edit source]

  • containment
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Marshall Plan
  • McCarthyism
  • Suez crisis
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • containment in the Middle East
  • containment in Latin America
  • Cuba “Falls to communism”
  • CIA

Domestic US Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • Second Red Scare
  • McCarthyism
  • HUAC
  • Hollywood 10
  • McCarren Act
  • Rosenbergs
  • Alger Hiss
  • Space Race

Kennedy[edit | edit source]

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Domino Theory
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Hot-Line
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Limited Test Ban Treaty
  • quarantine v. blockade
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • Peace Corps


Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • French involvement, 1954-1955
  • US involvement, 1959-1973

Eisenhower period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • Dien Bien Phu

Kennedy period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • JFK
  • Robert McNamara
  • "Whiz Kids"
  • “flexible response”
  • advisors
  • Camelot
  • assassination

Johnson period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident
  • Tet Offensive
  • Walter Cronkite
  • U.S. Public support of the War
  • Vietnamization
  • War Powers Acts
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Attrition
  • Hearts and Minds
  • Rolling Thunder
  • My Lai Massacre
  • Escalation

Nixon period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • Operation Linebacker II
  • Christmas bombings
  • "silent majority”
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • opening of China
  • Kissinger
  • Pentagon Papers
  • White House protests

Vietnam War protest movements[edit | edit source]

  • draft, the
  • hippies
  • Kent State
  • Jackson State

post-Nixon[edit | edit source]

  • Fall of Saigon
  • Cambodian genocide

post-WWII Domestic U.S>[edit | edit source]

  • baby boom
  • suburbia
  • conformity
  • Interstate Highway Act

Civil Rights[edit | edit source]

  • “Little Rock Nine”
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • civil disobedience
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Malcolm X
  • March on Washington
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Montgomery bus boycott
  • nonviolence
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

=== Other Civil Rights Movements

  • Roe v. Wade
  • women’s liberation movement (NOW)
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Grapes Boycott
  • Chicano Movement
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)
  • Wounded Knee Incident


Johnson[edit | edit source]

  • Great Society
  • War on Poverty


1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter[edit | edit source]

  • Watergate
  • pardoning of Nixon
  • stagflation
  • Afghanistan
  • Olympic boycott
  • Iranian hostage crisis
  • OPEC
  • oil embargo
  • Camp David Accords

Reagan era[edit | edit source]

  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • John Stockton
  • Landslide
  • Star Wars
  • "Reagan Revolution”
  • Reaganomics
  • Supply-side economics


End of the Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • George HW Bush
  • Gulf War
  • Bill Clinton
  • NAFTA
  • service sector economy
  • New Immigration
  • Haiti
  • Yugoslavia and Bosnia
  • Rwanda

21st Century[edit | edit source]

War on Terror[edit | edit source]

  • September 11th
  • Al Queda
  • Afghanistan War
  • Iraq
  • Patriot Act

Obama Administration[edit | edit source]

  • Great Recession
  • ISIS
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Obama Care
  • DREAM Act
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