AP US History vocabulary list

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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
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