AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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]

Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation[edit | edit source]

America First Committee
isolationisms
Lindburgh
Maginot Line
"Peace in our time"
“cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act

WWII[edit | edit source]

D-Day
Eastern Front
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Homefront
Island Hopping
Japanese Internment Camps
Korematsu v. U.S.
Manhattan Project
mechanized warfare
Nuremburg Trials
Poland invasion
Potsdam Conference
Sudatenland invasion
Tehran Conference
Truman’s decision
U.S. Neutrality Acts
United Nations
Yalta Conference

Latter half 20th Century[edit | edit source]

Early Cold War[edit | edit source]

Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
Bretton Woods Conference
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
United Nations
UK sterling crisis
Warsaw Pact

Atomic age[edit | edit source]

atmospheric testing
atomic testing
bombers
A-bomb
German scientists
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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 === World War II ===
+=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation ===
+* America First Committee
+* isolationisms
+* Lindburgh
+* Maginot Line
+* "Peace in our time"
+* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
+=== WWII ===
 <div style="column-count:2">
-* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
-* appeasement
 * D-Day
 * Eastern Front
 * Hiroshima, Nagasaki
 * Homefront
+* Island Hopping
 * Japanese Internment Camps
 * Korematsu v. U.S.
 * Manhattan Project
+* mechanized warfare
 * Nuremburg Trials
+* Poland invasion
 * Potsdam Conference
+* Sudatenland invasion
 * Tehran Conference
 * Truman’s decision
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 === Early Cold War ===
-* Berlin crisis
+* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
 * Bretton Woods Conference
 * capitalism
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 * ideology/ ideological
 * Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
-* Island hopping
 * Israel/ Palestine
 * Long Telegram / Article “X”
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 * Truman Doctrine
 * Turkey
+* United Nations
 * UK sterling crisis
 * Warsaw Pact