1950’s and The Cold War

Terms Iron Curtain Containment 38th Parallel Communism Red Scare Marshall Plan Brinkmanship Truman Doctrine NATO United Nations Satellite Nation Sputnik I House Un-American Activities Committee Korean War McCarthyism U-2 Incident Warsaw Pact H-bomb GI Bill of Rights Suburb Fair Deal Dixiecrat Baby Boom Planned Obsolescence Consumerism CIA Rock ‘n Roll Urban Renewal Bracero

People Douglas MacArthur Harry S. Truman Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek Joseph McCarthy The Rosenberg’s Dwight D. Eisenhower John Foster Dulles Dr. Jonas Salk Georgia O’Keefe Federal Communications Commission Documents Interstate Highway Act 22nd Amendment North Atlantic Treaty Organization Warsaw Pact

Dates 1950 1957

Eisenhower Doctrine Korean War

Literature The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury) The Power of Positive Thinking (Peale) Atlas Shrugged (Rand) The Affluent Society (Galbraith) Court Cases Brown v. Board of Education

Quotes “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” (McCarthy) “The buck stops here.” (Truman) “From Stettin in the Baltic to Treiste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” (Churchill) “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one and …the last one …will go over very quickly.” (Eisenhower)

The 1980’s

Terms Entitlement Program New Right Glasnost Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination Conservative Coalition Moral Majority Reaganomics Supply-side Economics Deregulation AIDS Iran Contra Affair Iran Hostage Situation Sunbelt Perestroika INF Treaty Sandanistas Tiananmen Square Operation Desert Storm

People Ronald Reagan Sandra Day O’Connor Geraldine Ferraro George Bush Mikhail Gorbachev Gen. Colin Powell Gen. Norman Schwartzhopf

Documents Gramm Rudman Hollings Act Strategic Defense Initiative A Nation At Risk (AIDS)

Dates 1989 1991

Literature Beloved (Morrison) All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Fulgham) Iacocca: an Autobiography (Iacocca)

Quotes “I thought it was a neat idea.” (North on Iran-Contra) “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” (Reagan)

The Great Depression

Inflation Recession Speculation Deflation Credit Price Supports Soup Kitchen Bonus Army

Terms Overproduction Underconsumption Buying on the Margin Black Tuesday Dow Jones Industrial Average Shantytown Bread line Dust Bowl Direct Relief New Deal Black Cabinet

People Herbert Hoover Reconstruction Finance Corporation Franklin Delano Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Huey Long Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Documents Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Social Security Act Federal Home Loan Bank Act Federal Securities Act Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Wagner Act Glass-Steagall Banking Act Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Dates 1929-1939

Literature and Entertainment The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) The War of the Worlds (Welles) Gone with the Wind (Mitchell) Crash of the Hindenburg (radio) American Gothic (Wood) This Land is Your Land (Guthrie) Native Son (Wright) Quotes “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Roosevelt) “I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” (Roosevelt)

Industrialization and Urbanization

Terms Great Plains Wounded Knee Grange Chisholm Trail Credit Mobilier Immigration Populist Social Darwinism Transcontinental Railroad Ellis Island American Federation of Labor Melting Pot Urbanization Tenement Graft Settlement House Political Machine Patronage Civil Service Laissez-Faire

People Williams Jennings Bryan George Custer Eugene V. Debs William McKinley Thomas Alva Edison Andrew Carnegie Alexander Graham Bell Samuel Gompers John D. Rockefeller W. E. B. Du Bois Jane Addams Boss Tweed Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Wright Brothers Booker T. Washington Documents 13 , 14 , and 15th Amendments Compromise of 1877 Homestead Act Dawes Act Morrill Act Interstate Commerce Act Sherman Antitrust Act Chinese Exclusion Act Pendleton Act th

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Dates 1877 1890 1898

Literature The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Twain) Risen from the Ranks (Alger) The Jungle (Sinclair) Court Cases Munn vs. Illinois Plessy vs. Ferguson Quotes

“We are men; we will be treated as men.” (Du Bois) “The advance of the frontier has meant…a steady growth of independence on American lives.” (Turner) “The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.” (Rockefeller)

1990’s and The WiloliaG New Millennium

People William Jefferson Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Kenneth Starr George W. Bush Osama bin Ladin

Terms NAFTA GATT World Trade Center Contract with America Service Sector Downsize NASDAQ Dotcom Global Economy Internet Impeachment Information Superhighway Telecommute Genetic Engineering Graying of America Terrorism Oklahoma City Bombing 9/11 al-Qaeda Kashmir Jammu Anthrax Persian Gulf War Axis of Evil

H. Ross Perot Newt Gingrich Al Gore Bill Gates Saddam Hussein

Documents Telecommunications Act of 1996 Proposition 187 Antiterrorism Law of 2001

Dates 1991 1998 2000 2001

Literature House on Mango Street (Cisneros) The Joy Luck Club (Tan) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou) 7Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)

Quotes “We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” (Bush)

Progressive Era

Terms White Man’s Burden Isolationism NAACP Imperialism Diplomacy Prohibition Foreign Policy Recall Yellow Journalism Muckraker Initiative Square Deal Referendum Conservation Suffrage Federal Reserve System Panama Canal USS Maine Bull Moose Dollar Diplomacy Open Door Policy Progressive Movement

People Robert Lafollette William McKinley William H. Taft Susan B. Anthony Rough Riders Alfred Thayer Mahan

Henry Ford Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Carrie Chapman Catt John J. Pershing

Documents Treaty of Paris (1898) Platt Amendment Roosevelt Corollary Panama Canal Treaty Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Dates 1898 1901 1910

Literature The Jungle (Sinclair) The Wonderful World of Oz (Baum) Call of the Wild (London) Court Cases

Quotes “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” (Hearst) “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” (Roosevelt) “I am going to make dirt fly.” (Roosevelt about the Panama Canal) “I really believe that we might pull off a campaign which would mean the vote within the next six years…” (Catt)

Reconstruction

People Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Mark Twain Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Documents Reconstruction Act 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Plessy vs. Ferguson

Terms Temperance Movement Literacy Test Radical Republicans Segregation Radical Reconstruction Freedmen Scalawags Grandfather clause Carpetbaggers Separate, but equal Sharecroppers Interchangeable parts Ku Klux Klan Poll Taxes

Dates 1868 1896

1877

Literature Tom Sawyer: Life on the Mississippi (Twain) Court Cases Plessy vs. Ferguson

Quotes “Corrupt bargain….Our federal Union – it must be preserved.” (Johnson) “To the victor belong the spoils…” “We was robbed.”

The Turbulent Sixties

People

Terms Flexible Response Berlin Wall Hot Line Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Black Power New Frontier Peace Corps Domino Theory Alliance for Progress NASA Migrant Workers Warren Commission Great Society NOW Medicare Medicaid Hawk Warren Court Reapportionment War on Poverty Dove Vietcong Counterculture Crisis in Little Rock March on Washington My Lai Vietnamization SNCC Sit In Freedom Riders Ho Chi Minh Trail Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

John F. Kennedy Fidel Castro Ho Chi Minh Nikita Khrushchev Lee Harvey Oswald Dien Bien Phu Lyndon Baines Johnson Thurgood Marshall Robert McNamara Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong Stokley Carmichael Malcolm X General William Westmoreland George Wallace Cesar Chavez Henry Kissinger Shirley Chisholm Gloria Steinem Robert Kennedy Documents Limited Test Ban Treaty Economic Opportunity Act Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Immigration Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1968 24th Amendment Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Dates 1961 1963 1964 1965 1968 1969 Pentagon Papers Silent Majority Tet Offensive

Court Cases Baker v. Carr Gideon v. Wainwright Escobedo v. Illinois Miranda v. Arizona Reynolds v. Sims

Quotes “The Great Society demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.” (LBJ) “Ich ben ein Berliner.” (JFK) “I have a dream today,..that people will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (MLK) “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” (Armstrong)

The Roaring Twenties

People

Terms Isolationism Communism Flapper Anarchists Quota System Teapot Dome Scandal Urban sprawl Installment Plan Prohibition Speakeasy Bootlegger Fundamentalism Scopes Trial Harlem Renaissance Red Scare Stock Market Crash

Dates 1919-1933 1920 1929

Literature

Sacco and Vanzetti Louis Armstrong The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) John L. Lewis Duke Ellington Dream Variations (Hughes) Warren G. Harding James Weldon Johnson Charles Evans Hughes Charles Lindbergh Court Cases Calvin Coolidge William Jennings Bryan Clarence Darrow Bessie Smith Marcus Garvey Langston Hughes Louis Armstrong K Documents Quotes Fordney-McCumber Tariff “The business of America is business.” (Coolidge) th 18 Amendment “A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage.” th 19 Amendment (Hoover) th 20 Amendment

Westward Expansion

Terms Capitalists Kitchen Cabinet Interchangeable Parts Manifest Destiny Era of Good Feelings Forty-niner Protective Tariff Trade Unions Suffrage Mason-Dixon Line Caucus Factory System Spoils System Jacksonian Democracy Immigrant Intercontinental Railroad

People Lewis and Clark Robert Fulton Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren Horace Mann Louis Daguerre Eli Whitney Samuel F. B. Morse Dorothea Dix James K. Polk Elizabeth Cady Stanton Cyrus McCormick Susan B. Anthony Henry Bessemer James Monroe John Deere Documents Land Ordinance of 1785 Seneca Falls Three-Fifth’s Compromise Louisiana Purchase Embargo Act Compromise of 1850 Missouri Compromise Mexican Cession Gadsden Purchase Monroe Doctrine Kansas-Nebraska Act Indian Removal Act

Dates 1803 1812 1845 1848 1849

Literature The Raven (Poe) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe) Moby Dick (Melville) Court Cases Gibbons vs. Ogden

Quotes “The people have no right to sell….” (Tecumseh) “The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners….”(Trail of Tears) “Remember the Alamo” “I will fight no more forever.” (Chief Joseph) “Damn the torpedoes…Full speed ahead...” (Perry)

World War I

People Archduke Franz Ferdinand General John J. Pershing Eddie Rickenbacker Georges Clemenceau David Lloyd George Henry Cabot Lodge War Industries Board

Documents National Parks Service Act Selective Service Act Espionage and Sedition Acts Treaty of Versailles

Terms Draft Fourteen Points Ratify League of Nations Neutrality Appeasement Nationalism Allies Central Powers Trench Warfare Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Convoy Lusitania Zimmermann note No Man’s Land Armistice Great Migration American Expeditionary Force Propaganda

Dates 1914-1918

Literature O Pioneers! and My Antonia (Cather) The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot) Of Human Bondage (Maugham) Court Cases Muller vs. Oregon Schenck v. United States Quotes “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Wilson) “Let us, while this war lasts, forget our special grievances and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white fellow citizens and the allied nations that are fighting for democracy.” (Du Bois) “I believe…that the first time the first woman [in Congress] had a chance to say no to war she should say it.” (Rankin)

1940’s and World War II

Terms Fascism Genocide Neutrality Acts Hiroshima Rationing Totalitarian Appeasement Nagasaki Nonaggression Pact Blitzkrieg Kamikaze GI Bill of Rights Kristallnacht Holocaust Ghetto Nuremberg Trials Concentration Camp Axis Powers Allies Home Front D-Day Battle of the Bulge V-E Day Japanese Internment Pearl Harbor Island Hopping Midway Rosie the Riveter Manhattan Project Little Boy and Fat Boy

People Joseph Stalin Benito Mussolini Adolph Hitler Francisco Franco Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Hideki Tojo Dwight D. Eisenhower Omar Bradley Harry S. Truman George Patton Chester Nimitz Douglas MacArthur George Marshall Documents Lend-Lease Act Atlantic Charter Taft-Hartley Act Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan

Literature

Dates

The Lottery (Jackson) The Human Comedy (Saroyan) Black Boy (Wright) Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (Spock)

1933 1939 1941-1945

Quotes “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” (Churchill) “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – is a date which will live in infamy.” (Roosevelt)