AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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=== WWII ===
=== WWII ===
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* "arsenal of democracy"
* D-Day
* D-Day
* Eastern Front
* Eastern Front
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* Poland invasion
* Poland invasion
* Potsdam Conference
* Potsdam Conference
* propaganda
* rationing
* recycling
* Rosie the Rivitor
* Sudatenland invasion
* Sudatenland invasion
* Tehran Conference
* Tehran Conference
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* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
* United Nations
* "Victory Gardens"
* war bonds
* Yalta Conference
* Yalta Conference
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* containment policy
* containment policy
* George F. Kennan  
* George F. Kennan  
* Greece
* Greek Civil War
* ideology/ ideological
* ideology/ ideological
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
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* NATO/Warsaw Pact
* NATO/Warsaw Pact
* NSC-68
* NSC-68
* proxy war
* SEATO
* SEATO
* sphere/s of influence
* sphere/s of influence
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=== Cold War diplomacy ===
=== Cold War diplomacy ===
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* United Nations
* United Nations
* Security Council
* Palestine partition
* unaligned nations
* unaligned nations
* third world
* third world
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=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* containment
* containment
* containment in Asia
* containment in Europe
* containment in Latin America
* containment in the Middle East
* Domino Theory
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* HUAC Committee
* HUAC Committee
* Joseph McCarthy
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* McCarthyism
* "military industrial complex"
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
* Eisenhower Doctrine
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* containment in the Middle East
* containment in Latin America
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA
* CIA
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* civil disobedience
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* desegregation (Truman, 1948)
* Executive Order 9981
* Jackie Robinson
* Jackie Robinson
* Malcolm X
* Malcolm X
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* Voting Rights Act of 1965
* Voting Rights Act of 1965


=== Other Civil Rights Movements ===
=== Other Civil Rights and Political Movements ===
* Silent Spring
* Michael Harrington
* Roe v. Wade
* Roe v. Wade
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)