AP US History vocabulary list
US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List
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== FDR & New Deal
Roosevelt Administrations[edit | edit source]
- Brain Trust
- Harry Hopkins
- Francis Perkins
== Worl
Cold War vocabulary[edit | edit source]
=== start of Cold War
- Berlin crisis
- Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
- NSC-68
- ideology/ ideological
- capitalism
- communism
- sphere/s of influence
- UK sterling crisis
- containment policy
- George F. Kennan
- Long Telegram / Article “X”
- Truman Doctrine
- Greece
- Turkey
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- Warsaw Pact
- China, loss of
- Mao Zedong
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Israel/ Palestine
- SEATO
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
- Peace Corps
Eisenhower period[edit | edit source]
- 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
- baby boom
- suburbia
- conformity
- Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis[edit | edit source]
- Bay of Pigs
Cu* ban Missile Crisis
- Hot-Line
- Limited Test Ban Treaty
- quarantine v. blockade
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- RFK
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
Nixon[edit | edit source]
- "silent majority”
- Vietnamization
- Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
- Paris Peace Accords
- opening of China
- Kissinger
- Pentagon Papers
- Watergate
- White House protests
protest movements[edit | edit source]
- draft, the
- hippies
- Kent State
- Jackson State
post-Nixon =[edit | edit source]
- Fall of Saigon
- Cambodian genocide
1970s: Ford & Carter[edit | edit source]
- pardoning of Nixon
- stagflation
- Afghanistan
- Olympic boycott
- Iranian hostage crisis
Reagan era[edit | edit source]
- "Reagan Revolution”
- Iran-Contra Affair
End of the Cold War[edit | edit source]
- HW Bush
- Gulf War