AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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* bombers
* bombers
* A-bomb
* A-bomb
* Chinese bomb (Taiwan incident)
* German scientists
* German scientists
* H-bomb
* H-bomb
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=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* CIA
* containment
* containment
* containment in Asia
* containment in Asia
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* Marshall Plan
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* McCarthyism
* "military industrial complex"
* "military industrial complex" (1958/9?)
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
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* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Berlin Wall
* Berlin Wall
* CIA
* CIA activity under Kennedy
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Domino Theory
* Domino Theory
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=== Johnson period of Vietnam War ===
=== Johnson period of Vietnam War ===
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* bombing campaigns
* Tet Offensive
* escalation
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)
* Tet Offensive (1968)
* Walter Cronkite
* Walter Cronkite
* U.S. public opinion
* U.S. public opinion
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=== Nixon period of Vietnam War ===
=== Nixon period of Vietnam War ===
* China
* Operation Linebacker II
* Operation Linebacker II
* Christmas bombings
* Christmas bombings
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* draft, the
* draft, the
* hippies
* hippies
* protests
* Kent State  
* Kent State  
* Jackson State
* Jackson State
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* Fall of Saigon
* Fall of Saigon
* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide
* Pol Pot


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