AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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=== World War II ===
=== World War II ===
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation ===
* A Philip Randolph
* America First Committee
* isolationisms
* Lindburgh
* Maginot Line
* "Peace in our time"
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
=== WWII ===
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* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* appeasement
* D-Day
* D-Day
* Eastern Front
* Eastern Front
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* Homefront
* Homefront
* Island Hopping
* Japanese Internment Camps
* Japanese Internment Camps
* Korematsu v. U.S.
* Korematsu v. U.S.
* Manhattan Project
* Manhattan Project
* mechanized warfare
* Nuremburg Trials
* Nuremburg Trials
* Poland invasion
* Potsdam Conference
* Potsdam Conference
* Sudatenland invasion
* Tehran Conference
* Tehran Conference
* Truman’s decision
* Truman’s decision
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=== Early Cold War ===
=== Early Cold War ===
* Berlin crisis
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
* Bretton Woods Conference
* Bretton Woods Conference
* capitalism  
* capitalism  
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* ideology/ ideological
* ideology/ ideological
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Island hopping
* Israel/ Palestine
* Israel/ Palestine
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
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* Truman Doctrine
* Truman Doctrine
* Turkey
* Turkey
* United Nations
* UK sterling crisis
* UK sterling crisis
* Warsaw Pact
* Warsaw Pact
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* containment
* containment
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Dwight Eisenhower
* HUAC Committee
* Joseph McCarthy
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* Marshall Plan
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* civil disobedience
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* desegregation (Truman, 1948)
* Jackie Robinson
* Malcolm X
* Malcolm X
* March on Washington
* March on Washington
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* nonviolence
* nonviolence
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
=== Other Civil Rights Movements
 
=== Other Civil Rights Movements ===
* Roe v. Wade
* Roe v. Wade
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)