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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 | |||
</div> | |||
=== 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 | ||
* | * 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 | ||
</div> | </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 | * 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> | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
===Social reform === | ===Social reform === | ||
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* transcendentalism | * transcendentalism | ||
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin | * Uncle Tom’s Cabin | ||
< | </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 | ** 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 === | === Labor === | ||
* American Federation of Labor (AFL) | * American Federation of Labor (AFL) | ||
* Samuel Gompers | * Samuel Gompers | ||
</div> | |||
=== Progressive Era === | === Progressive Era === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
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* Federal Reserve Act (1913) | * Federal Reserve Act (1913) | ||
* Gifford Pinchot | * Gifford Pinchot | ||
* Hepburn Act | |||
* initiative | * initiative | ||
* Jacob Riis | * Jacob Riis | ||
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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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* Bolsheviks | * Bolsheviks | ||
* Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917) | * Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917) | ||
* "He kept us out of the war" (1916) | |||
* Jones Act (1916) | * Jones Act (1916) | ||
* Liberty Loans | * Liberty Loans | ||
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* War Industries Board | * War Industries Board | ||
* Zimmerman Note | * Zimmerman Note | ||
</div> | |||
=== Post-WWI === | === Post-WWI === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Collective Security | * Collective Security | ||
* Depression of 1920-1921 | * Depression of 1920-1921 | ||
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* Senate Foreign Relations Committee | * Senate Foreign Relations Committee | ||
* Treaty of Versailles | * Treaty of Versailles | ||
</div> | |||
=== post-WWI & 1920s === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* "America First" | |||
* Black Tuesday | * Black Tuesday | ||
* Court-packing scheme | * Court-packing scheme | ||
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* pump-priming | * pump-priming | ||
* Red Scare | * Red Scare | ||
* | * Return to ‘normalcy’ | ||
* Roarding Twenties | * Roarding Twenties | ||
* Sacco and Vanzetti | * Sacco and Vanzetti | ||
* Scopes Trial | * Scopes Trial | ||
* Teapot Dome Scandal | * Teapot Dome Scandal | ||
* Wilsonianism | |||
</div> | </div> | ||
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=== 1920s === | === 1920s === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* automobiles | |||
* consumerism | * consumerism | ||
* credit | * credit | ||
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* Klu Klux Klan | * Klu Klux Klan | ||
* Margin buying | * Margin buying | ||
* radio | |||
* refrigerators | |||
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial | * Scopes "Monkey" Trial | ||
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=== FDR & New Deal === | === FDR & New Deal === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Social Security | * Social Security | ||
* Supreme Court | * Supreme Court | ||
</div> | |||
=== Roosevelt Administrations === | === Roosevelt Administrations === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
=== Pre-WWII === | === Pre-WWII === | ||
* isolationism | |||
* "war footing" | |||
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* A Philip Randolph | * A Philip Randolph | ||
* America First Committee | * America First Committee | ||
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=== WWII === | === WWII === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* "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 | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
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== Latter half 20th Century == | == Latter half 20th Century == | ||
=== Early Cold War === | === Early Cold War Foreign Affairs === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | * Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | ||
* Bretton Woods Conference | * Bretton Woods Conference | ||
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* containment policy | * containment policy | ||
* George F. Kennan | * George F. Kennan | ||
* | * 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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* 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 | ||
* | * West, The | ||
=== 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 | * HUAC Committee | ||
* Joseph McCarthy | * Joseph McCarthy | ||
* Marshall Plan | * Marshall Plan | ||
* McCarthyism | * McCarthyism | ||
* "military industrial complex" | |||
* Suez crisis | * Suez crisis | ||
</div> | |||
=== 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 | * 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) | ||
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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
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[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]
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