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'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events'''
'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events'''
File to do:
* create general terms list; meanwhile see [[SAT Reading section historical timeline & themes]] (includes wars timeline)
** to add: political expediency
** Wars timeline
== Terms to know ==
<div style="column-count:3">
* abolitionism
* aristocratic
* blue collar v. white collar
* cession
* chain migration
* class warfare
* ''de facto'' v. ''de jure''
* delegate (as noun and verb)
* direct tax
* disenfranchised
* dissent
* domestic
* duties
* emancipation
* embargo
* equity
* excise tax
* franchise
* imperialism
* indemnity
* intolerance
* laissez-faire
* mercantilism
* nativism
* nullify / nullification
* Old World v. New World
* popular sovereignty
* precedent
* prohibition
* "Republican motherhood"
* states rights
* segregation
* socialism
* suffrage
* suffragette
* tariff
* temperance movement
* unalienable
</div>


== Colonial Periods ==
== Colonial Periods ==


=== Pre-Columbian ===
=== Pre-Columbian ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* indigenous


=== Age of Exploration ===
* Caravel
* Conquistador
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=== Colonial ===
=== Colonial ===
<div style="column-count:3">
<div style="column-count:3">
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* New England town meetings
* New England town meetings
* Pequot War
* Pequot War
* Puritans/intolerance
* Puritan
* Queen Anne's War
* Queen Anne's War
* Roanoke
* Roanoke
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* St. Augustine
* St. Augustine
* the Great Awakening
* the Great Awakening
* "triangle trade"
* William Penn
* William Penn
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</div>
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=== American Revolution ===
=== American Revolution ===
<div style="column-count:3">
<div style="column-count:3">
* ABC Boards
* Boston Massacre
* Boston Massacre
* Boston Tea Party
* Boston Tea Party
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* Declaration of Independence
* Declaration of Independence
* Enlightenment philosophers
* Enlightenment philosophers
* First Continental Congress  
* First Continental Congress
* French and Indian War
* French and Indian War
* John Locke
* John Locke
* Lexington/Concord
* Lexington/Concord
* Loyalist
* Montesquieu
* Montesquieu
* natural rights
* natural rights
* Navigation Acts
* Navigation Acts
* Patrior
* Proclamation of 1763
* Proclamation of 1763
* Saratoga
* Saratoga
* social contract theory
* social contract theory
* Sons of Liberty
* Sugar Act
* Thomas Paine
* Thomas Paine
* Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
* Townsend Acts
* Valley Forge
* Treaty of Paris of 1783
* Valley Forge
* Yorktown
* Yorktown
* Continental Congress/es
* Continental Congress/es
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</div>
</div>


== Antebellum ==
== Antebellum period ==


=== Jacksonian period ===
=== Jacksonian period ===
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</div>


=== Antebellum ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
=== Antebellum ===


===Social reform ===
===Social reform ===
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* transcendentalism
* transcendentalism
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
<br><br>
</div>


=== Antebellum ===
=== Antebellum ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Compromise of 1850
* Compromise of 1850
* Dred Scott decision
* Dred Scott decision
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* Freedman’s Bureau
* Freedman’s Bureau
* grandfather clause
* grandfather clause
* homestead
* Jim Crow laws
* Jim Crow laws
* land grant
* literacy tests
* literacy tests
* Morill Land-Grant Act (1862)
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* poll taxes
* poll taxes
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* Reconstruction Act of 1867
* Reconstruction Act of 1867
* Reconstruction programs:  
* Reconstruction programs:  
** Lincoln's plans
** Lincoln's plan
** Johnson's program
** Johnson's program
** Congressional program
** Congressional program
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* transcontinental railroad
* transcontinental railroad
* U.S. Steel
* U.S. Steel
 
</div>
=== Imperialism ===
=== Imperialism ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Battle of Manila
* Battle of Manila
* “Big Stick Policy”
* “Big Stick Policy”
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</div>
</div>


</div>
== First half 20th Century ==
== First half 20th Century ==
<div style="column-count:2">


=== Labor ===
* American Federation of Labor (AFL)
* Samuel Gompers
</div>
=== Progressive Era ===
=== Progressive Era ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
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* 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
* 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
* Bull Moose Party
* Bull Moose Party
* Elkins Act (1903)
* Eugene V. Debs
* Direct democracy
* Direct democracy
* Federal Reserve Act (1913)
* Gifford Pinchot
* Hepburn Act
* initiative
* initiative
* Jacob Riis
* Jacob Riis
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* Meat Inspection Act
* Meat Inspection Act
* muckrakers
* muckrakers
* New Freedom
* New Nationalism
* Newlands Act of 1902
* Progressive Party
* Progressive Party
* Progressives / progressivism
* Progressives / progressivism
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* Settlement houses
* Settlement houses
* socialism
* socialism
* Square Deal
* Upton Sinclair
* Upton Sinclair
* Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
* Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
* William Howard Taft
* William Howard Taft


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<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">


* 21st & 22nd  Amendments
=== WWI ===
* Bolsheviks
* Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917)
* "He kept us out of the war" (1916)
* Jones Act (1916)
* Liberty Loans
* Lusitania sinking (1915)
* Pancho Villa (1914)
* Russian Revolution
* Sussex Pledge (1916)
* U-Boats
* War bonds
* War Industries Board
* Zimmerman Note
</div>
 
=== Post-WWI ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Collective Security
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Fourteen Points
* League of Nations
* Senate Foreign Relations Committee
* Treaty of Versailles
</div>
 
=== post-WWI & 1920s ===
<div style="column-count:2">
 
* "America First"
* Black Tuesday
* Black Tuesday
* Court-packing scheme
* Court-packing scheme
* deficit spending
* deficit spending
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Dust Bowl
* Dust Bowl
* Harlem Renaissance
* Harlem Renaissance
* Hoover
* Hoover
* Hoovervilles
* Immigration Act of 1924
* League of Nations
* League of Nations
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
* National Origins Act
* National Origins Act
* New Deal
* New Deal
* Palmer Raids
* Proclamation of Neutrality
* Proclamation of Neutrality
* prohibition
* prohibition
* pump-priming
* pump-priming
* Red Scare
* Red Scare
* return to ‘normalcy’
* Return to ‘normalcy’
* Roarding Twenties
* Sacco and Vanzetti
* Sacco and Vanzetti
* Scopes Trial
* Scopes Trial
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Treaty of Versailles
* Wilsonianism
** US Senate opposition
 
</div>
</div>


=== 1920s ===
=== 1920s ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
* automobiles
* consumerism
* credit
* Bathtub gin
* Harlem Renaissance
* Jazz Age
* Klu Klux Klan
* Margin buying
* radio
* refrigerators
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial


</div>
</div>
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=== Great Depression ===
=== Great Depression ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
 
* Black Monday
* Black Thursday
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff
* Hoovervilles
</div>
</div>


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=== FDR & New Deal ===
=== FDR & New Deal ===
 
<div style="column-count:2">
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
</div>
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
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* Harry Hopkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Francis Perkins
* Francis Perkins
</div>
=== Pre-WWII ===
* isolationism
* "war footing"
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation ===
<div style="column-count:2">


=== World War II ===
* A Philip Randolph
* America First Committee
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* isolationisms
* Lindburgh
* Maginot Line
* Munich Agreement
* "Peace for our time"
* Sudetenland
</div>
=== WWII ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* "arsenal of democracy"
* 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
* propaganda
* rationing
* recycling
* Rosie the Rivitor
* Sudatenland invasion
* Tehran Conference
* Tehran Conference
* Truman’s decision
* Truman’s decision
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
* United Nations
* "Victory Gardens"
* war bonds
* Yalta Conference
* Yalta Conference
</div>
</div>


== Latter half 20th Century ==
== Latter half 20th Century ==
=== Early Cold War Foreign Affairs ===
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
=== Early Cold War ===
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
* Berlin crisis
* Bretton Woods Conference
* Bretton Woods Conference
* capitalism  
* capitalism  
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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
* Island hopping
* Israel/ Palestine
* Israel/ Palestine
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
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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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* Truman Doctrine
* Truman Doctrine
* Turkey
* Turkey
* United Nations
* UK sterling crisis
* UK sterling crisis
* Warsaw Pact
* Warsaw Pact
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* anti-ballistic missile
* anti-ballistic missile
* nuclear shield
* nuclear shield
=== Korean War ===
=== Korean War ===
* Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
* Chinese Revolution
</div>


=== Cold War diplomacy ===
=== Cold War diplomacy ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* East, the
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* nation-building
* Palestine partition
* Security Council
* Third World
* unaligned nations
* United Nations
* United Nations
* unaligned nations
* West, The
* third world
* nation-building


=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* containment
* containment
* containment in Asia
* containment in Europe
* containment in Latin America
* containment in the Middle East
* Cuba
* Domino Theory
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* HUAC Committee
* Joseph McCarthy
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* McCarthyism
* "military industrial complex"
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
* Eisenhower Doctrine
</div>
* containment in the Middle East
* containment in Latin America
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA


=== Domestic US Cold War ===
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Executive Order 9835
* Second Red Scare
* Second Red Scare
* McCarthyism
* McCarthyism
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* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Berlin Wall
* Berlin Wall
* CIA
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Domino Theory
* Domino Theory
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* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Peace Corps
* Peace Corps
</div>
<div style="column-count:2">


== Vietnam War ==
== Vietnam War ==
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* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide


== post-WWII Domestic U.S> ==
== post-WWII Domestic U.S ==
*
* baby boom
* baby boom
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
* suburbia
* suburbia
* conformity
* conformity
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* civil disobedience
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Executive Order 9981
* 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 and Political Movements ===
* Silent Spring
* Michael Harrington
* Roe v. Wade
* Roe v. Wade
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
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=== End of the Cold War ===
=== End of the Cold War ===
* George HW Bush
* George HW Bush
* Military spending cuts
* Gulf War
* Gulf War
* Bill Clinton
* Bill Clinton
*  
* Peace Dividend
* NAFTA
* NAFTA
* service sector economy
* service sector economy

Revision as of 13:51, 27 April 2024

US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events

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Terms to know[edit | edit source]

  • abolitionism
  • aristocratic
  • blue collar v. white collar
  • cession
  • chain migration
  • class warfare
  • de facto v. de jure
  • delegate (as noun and verb)
  • direct tax
  • disenfranchised
  • dissent
  • domestic
  • duties
  • emancipation
  • embargo
  • equity
  • excise tax
  • franchise
  • imperialism
  • indemnity
  • intolerance
  • laissez-faire
  • mercantilism
  • nativism
  • nullify / nullification
  • Old World v. New World
  • popular sovereignty
  • precedent
  • prohibition
  • "Republican motherhood"
  • states rights
  • segregation
  • socialism
  • suffrage
  • suffragette
  • tariff
  • temperance movement
  • unalienable

Colonial Periods[edit | edit source]

Pre-Columbian[edit | edit source]

  • indigenous

Age of Exploration[edit | edit source]

  • Caravel
  • Conquistador

Colonial[edit | edit source]

  • Bacon’s Rebellion
  • headright system
  • House of Burgesses
  • indentured servitude
  • Jamestown- general characteristics
  • John Rolfe
  • John Smith
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • King Philip’s War
  • Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
  • Mercantilism
  • Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
  • Navigation Acts
  • New England town meetings
  • Pequot War
  • Puritan
  • Queen Anne's War
  • Roanoke
  • salutary neglect
  • St. Augustine
  • the Great Awakening
  • "triangle trade"
  • William Penn

American Revolution[edit | edit source]

  • ABC Boards
  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Common Sense
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Enlightenment philosophers
  • First Continental Congress
  • French and Indian War
  • John Locke
  • Lexington/Concord
  • Loyalist
  • Montesquieu
  • natural rights
  • Navigation Acts
  • Patrior
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Saratoga
  • social contract theory
  • Sons of Liberty
  • Sugar Act
  • Thomas Paine
  • Townsend Acts
  • Treaty of Paris of 1783
  • Valley Forge
  • Yorktown
  • Continental Congress/es


Early Republic[edit | edit source]

Articles of Confederation Period[edit | edit source]

  • Articles of Confederation
  • Shay’s Rebellion
  • confederation
  • sovereignty
  • supermajority
  • unicameral

U.S. Constitution[edit | edit source]

  • 3/5ths Compromise
  • amendment process
  • anti-Federalists
  • bicameral
  • Bill of Rights
  • checks and balances
  • Connecticut Compromise
  • Constitution
  • elastic clause
  • electoral college
  • Federalists
  • Federalism
  • Federalist no. 10
  • Federalist no. 51
  • Federalist Papers
  • Federalists
  • George Washington
  • Great Compromise
  • impeachment
  • James Madison
  • New Jersey Plan
  • Northwest Ordinance
  • preamble
  • preamble to the Constitution
  • ratification
  • separation of powers
  • strict vs. loose interpretation
  • unwritten Constitution
  • Virginia Plan

Early Republic[edit | edit source]

  • 12th Amendment
  • American System
  • Cabinet
  • Democratic-Republicans
  • election of 1800
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Federalists
  • George Washington
  • Hamilton
  • impressment
  • Jefferson
  • John Marshall
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • McColluch v. Maryland
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Mossouri Compromise
  • National Bank
  • nullification
  • political parties
  • Republican motherhood
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • War of 1812
  • Whiskey Rebellion

Antebellum period[edit | edit source]

Jacksonian period[edit | edit source]

  • John Quincy Adams
  • Bank War
  • Corrupt Bargain
  • Force Bill
  • Henry Clay
  • Jacksonian democracy
  • Indian Removal Act
  • Nullification Crisis
  • Petticoat affair
  • Postal Service
  • Panic of 1837
  • Second Party System
  • spoils system
  • Tariff of 1833
  • Trail of Tears
  • Daniel Webster
  • Worcester v. Georgia

Antebellum[edit | edit source]

Social reform[edit | edit source]

  • cult of domesticity
  • Declaration of Sentiments
  • emancipation
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • suffrage
  • transcendentalism
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Antebellum[edit | edit source]

  • Compromise of 1850
  • Dred Scott decision
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Gold Rush of 1849
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • manifest destiny
  • Mexican American War
  • popular sovereignty
  • sectionalism
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Latter 19th Century[edit | edit source]

Civil War[edit | edit source]

  • 1860 Election
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Appomattox
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Ft. Sumter
  • Gettysburg
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Lincoln’s pre-war stance on slavery
  • Sherman’s March
  • U.S. Grant

Reconstruction[edit | edit source]

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
  • black codes
  • Compromise of 1877
  • 40 acres and a mule
  • Freedman’s Bureau
  • grandfather clause
  • homestead
  • Jim Crow laws
  • land grant
  • literacy tests
  • Morill Land-Grant Act (1862)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • poll taxes
  • Radical Republicans
  • Reconstruction Act of 1867
  • Reconstruction programs:
    • Lincoln's plan
    • Johnson's program
    • Congressional program

Post-Reconstruction[edit | edit source]

Economic & Political[edit | edit source]

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • bimetallism
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Dawes Act /assimilation
  • Gentlemen’s Agreement
  • Great Migration
  • Homestead Act of 1862
  • laissez-faire capitalism
  • melting pot
  • monopoly
  • nativism
  • Nelson Rockefeller
  • political bosses
  • political machine
  • Populist Party
  • robber barons
  • Sand Creek Massacre
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act
  • social Darwinism
  • Standard Oil
  • transcontinental railroad
  • U.S. Steel

Imperialism[edit | edit source]

  • Battle of Manila
  • “Big Stick Policy”
  • Cuba
  • de Lôme Letter,
  • imperialism
  • William McKinley
  • Open Door Policy
  • Panama Canal
  • Roosevelt Corollary
  • Spanish-American War
  • yellow journalism
  • USS Maine

First half 20th Century[edit | edit source]

Labor[edit | edit source]

  • American Federation of Labor (AFL)
  • Samuel Gompers

Progressive Era[edit | edit source]

  • "Square Deal”
  • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Elkins Act (1903)
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Direct democracy
  • Federal Reserve Act (1913)
  • Gifford Pinchot
  • Hepburn Act
  • initiative
  • Jacob Riis
  • Jane Addams
  • Meat Inspection Act
  • muckrakers
  • New Freedom
  • New Nationalism
  • Newlands Act of 1902
  • Progressive Party
  • Progressives / progressivism
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • recall
  • referendum
  • Rule of Reason
  • Settlement houses
  • socialism
  • Square Deal
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
  • "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
  • William Howard Taft

World War I era[edit | edit source]

WWI[edit | edit source]

  • Bolsheviks
  • Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917)
  • "He kept us out of the war" (1916)
  • Jones Act (1916)
  • Liberty Loans
  • Lusitania sinking (1915)
  • Pancho Villa (1914)
  • Russian Revolution
  • Sussex Pledge (1916)
  • U-Boats
  • War bonds
  • War Industries Board
  • Zimmerman Note

Post-WWI[edit | edit source]

  • Collective Security
  • Depression of 1920-1921
  • Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations
  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Treaty of Versailles

post-WWI & 1920s[edit | edit source]

  • "America First"
  • Black Tuesday
  • Court-packing scheme
  • deficit spending
  • Dust Bowl
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Hoover
  • Immigration Act of 1924
  • League of Nations
  • Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
  • National Origins Act
  • New Deal
  • Palmer Raids
  • Proclamation of Neutrality
  • prohibition
  • pump-priming
  • Red Scare
  • Return to ‘normalcy’
  • Roarding Twenties
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
  • Scopes Trial
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Wilsonianism

1920s[edit | edit source]

  • automobiles
  • consumerism
  • credit
  • Bathtub gin
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Jazz Age
  • Klu Klux Klan
  • Margin buying
  • radio
  • refrigerators
  • Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Great Depression[edit | edit source]

  • Black Monday
  • Black Thursday
  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  • Hoovervilles


FDR & New Deal[edit | edit source]

  • Social Security
  • Supreme Court

Roosevelt Administrations[edit | edit source]

  • Brain Trust
  • Harry Hopkins
  • Francis Perkins

Pre-WWII[edit | edit source]

  • isolationism
  • "war footing"

Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation[edit | edit source]

  • A Philip Randolph
  • America First Committee
  • “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
  • isolationisms
  • Lindburgh
  • Maginot Line
  • Munich Agreement
  • "Peace for our time"
  • Sudetenland

WWII[edit | edit source]

  • "arsenal of democracy"
  • D-Day
  • Eastern Front
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  • Homefront
  • Island Hopping
  • Japanese Internment Camps
  • Korematsu v. U.S.
  • Manhattan Project
  • mechanized warfare
  • Nuremburg Trials
  • Poland invasion
  • Potsdam Conference
  • propaganda
  • rationing
  • recycling
  • Rosie the Rivitor
  • Sudatenland invasion
  • Tehran Conference
  • Truman’s decision
  • U.S. Neutrality Acts
  • United Nations
  • "Victory Gardens"
  • war bonds
  • Yalta Conference

Latter half 20th Century[edit | edit source]

Early Cold War Foreign Affairs[edit | edit source]

  • Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
  • Bretton Woods Conference
  • capitalism
  • Chiang Kai-shek
  • China, loss of
  • communism
  • containment policy
  • George F. Kennan
  • Greek Civil War
  • ideology/ ideological
  • Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
  • Israel/ Palestine
  • Long Telegram / Article “X”
  • Mao Zedong
  • Marshall Plan
  • NATO
  • NATO/Warsaw Pact
  • NSC-68
  • proxy war
  • SEATO
  • sphere/s of influence
  • Suez Canal Crisis
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Turkey
  • United Nations
  • UK sterling crisis
  • Warsaw Pact

Atomic age[edit | edit source]

  • atmospheric testing
  • atomic testing
  • bombers
  • A-bomb
  • German scientists
  • H-bomb
  • brinkmanship
  • ICBM
  • Nike missile system
  • MAD/ mutually-assured destruction
  • anti-ballistic missile
  • nuclear shield

Korean War[edit | edit source]

  • Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
  • Chinese Revolution

Cold War diplomacy[edit | edit source]

  • East, the
  • hegemony / hegemonic power
  • nation-building
  • Palestine partition
  • Security Council
  • Third World
  • unaligned nations
  • United Nations
  • West, The

Eisenhower period[edit | edit source]

  • containment
  • containment in Asia
  • containment in Europe
  • containment in Latin America
  • containment in the Middle East
  • Cuba
  • Domino Theory
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • HUAC Committee
  • Joseph McCarthy
  • Marshall Plan
  • McCarthyism
  • "military industrial complex"
  • Suez crisis

Domestic US Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • Executive Order 9835
  • Second Red Scare
  • McCarthyism
  • HUAC
  • Hollywood 10
  • McCarren Act
  • Rosenbergs
  • Alger Hiss
  • Space Race

Kennedy[edit | edit source]

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • Berlin Wall
  • CIA
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Domino Theory
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Hot-Line
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Limited Test Ban Treaty
  • quarantine v. blockade
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • Peace Corps

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
  • U.S. Public support of the War
  • Vietnamization
  • War Powers Acts
  • Gulf of Tonkin
  • Attrition
  • Hearts and Minds
  • Rolling Thunder
  • My Lai Massacre
  • Escalation

Nixon period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]

  • Operation Linebacker II
  • Christmas bombings
  • "silent majority”
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • opening of China
  • Kissinger
  • Pentagon Papers
  • White House protests

Vietnam War protest movements[edit | edit source]

  • draft, the
  • hippies
  • Kent State
  • Jackson State

post-Nixon[edit | edit source]

  • Fall of Saigon
  • Cambodian genocide

post-WWII Domestic U.S[edit | edit source]

  • baby boom
  • "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
  • suburbia
  • conformity
  • Interstate Highway Act

Civil Rights[edit | edit source]

  • “Little Rock Nine”
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • civil disobedience
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Executive Order 9981
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Malcolm X
  • March on Washington
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Montgomery bus boycott
  • nonviolence
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

Other Civil Rights and Political Movements[edit | edit source]

  • Silent Spring
  • Michael Harrington
  • Roe v. Wade
  • women’s liberation movement (NOW)
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Grapes Boycott
  • Chicano Movement
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)
  • Wounded Knee Incident


Johnson[edit | edit source]

  • Great Society
  • War on Poverty


1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter[edit | edit source]

  • Watergate
  • pardoning of Nixon
  • stagflation
  • Afghanistan
  • Olympic boycott
  • Iranian hostage crisis
  • OPEC
  • oil embargo
  • Camp David Accords

Reagan era[edit | edit source]

  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • John Stockton
  • Landslide
  • Star Wars
  • "Reagan Revolution”
  • Reaganomics
  • Supply-side economics


End of the Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • George HW Bush
  • Military spending cuts
  • Gulf War
  • Bill Clinton
  • Peace Dividend
  • NAFTA
  • service sector economy
  • New Immigration
  • Haiti
  • Yugoslavia and Bosnia
  • Rwanda

21st Century[edit | edit source]

War on Terror[edit | edit source]

  • September 11th
  • Al Queda
  • Afghanistan War
  • Iraq
  • Patriot Act

Obama Administration[edit | edit source]

  • Great Recession
  • ISIS
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Obama Care
  • DREAM Act