Friday, June 8, 2012

Final Review


US Final Review

WWII
            Nye Committee
            Isolationism v. internationalism
            Lend-lease
            Neutrality Acts (reasons for each)
            Hemispheric defense zone
            Pearl Harbor
            Island hopping
            Cost plus
            War Production Board
            Selective Service
            Propaganda (gardens, bonds, coupons)
            Internment camps
            Bracero Programs
Battles (significance)
                        Coral Sea
                        Midway
                        Stalingrad
                        Bulge
                        D-day
            Decision to drop the bomb (Arguments for and Against)

Cold War
            Long Telegram
            Containment
            Truman Doctrine
            Marshall Plan
            Berlin airlift
            Korean War (limited war)
            Red Scare (causes- Alger Hiss, Igor)
            HUAC
            McCarthyism
            Sputnik
            Duck and Cover
            Cuban Missile Crisis
            La Brigada (Bay of Pigs)
            Berlin Wall
            Space Race
            New Look (Eisenhower)
            Flexible Response
            Domino Theory
           


50s/60s Society
            GI Bill
            Taft-Hartley Act
            Federal Highway Act
            Baby Boom
            Levittown
            Jonas Salk
            Generation Gap
            Beat Movement
            New Consumerism
            Urban decline / Urban renewal
            Multinational corporation
            Medicaid / Medicare
            HUD
            New Frontier
Great Society
Head Start
Peace Corps
Court Case
                        Gideon v Wainwright
                        Brown v. Board
                        Reynolds v. Sims (shifted power to urban areas)
            Warren Commission

Civil Rights
            Plessy v. Ferguson
            Brown case
            SCLC
            Rosa Parks
            MLK Jr.
            Malcolm Little (X)
            Jim Crow
            Sit-ins (Greensboro)
            Bus Boycott (Montgomery)
            Marches (Birmingham and Selma)
            Little Rock 9
            SNCC  
            CORE
            Civil Rights Act 1964 / Voting Rights Act 1965
            Kerner Commission