AP US History
Unit 10 - WWII & Cold War Beginnings
Ch 35-38 Study List
Chapter 35 - America in WW II
Pearl Harbor
get Germany first
Japanese-American internment
Hirabayashi v. U.S.
Korematsu v. U.S.
(Civil Liberties Act of 1988)
Atlantic Charter
Henry J. Kaiser-“Sir Launchalot”
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration.
United Mine Workers- John L. Lewis
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
WAACS (Army)
WAVES (Navy)
SPARS (Coast Guard)
Braceros
“Rosie the Riveter”
“Sunbelt”
A. Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Fair Employment Practices Commission
racially separate blood banks
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
“code talkers”
Bataan Death March
Gen Douglas MacArthur
“I shall return”
Guadalcanal
Coral Sea
Midway
“island hopping”
German U-boats
“enigma” code
El Alamein
second front
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casablanca Conference
British PM Winston Churchill
“unconditional surrender”
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Monte Cassino
D-Day: June 6, 1944
Normandy Landings
Operation Overlord
Tehran Conference
Big Three (FDR, Churchill, Stalin)
Election of 1944
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S. Truman (not Henry Wallace)
Battle of the Bulge
101st Airborne Division
concentration camps
genocide
FDR dies, 4/12/45
Hitler dies, 4/30/45
May 8, 1945 V-E Day
Japanese “kamikaze” pilots
Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Potsdam Conference
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Emperor Hirohito
General Tojo
Chapter 36 - The Cold War Begins
postwar economic slump & boom
Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
“closed” shops
Employment Act of 1946
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
GI Bill of Rights
R and D
baby boom
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Sunbelt
suburbs
Federal Housing Authority
Levittown
“white flight”
Harry S. Truman
“Missouri gang”
Yalta Conference, February 1945
Cold War
Bretton Woods Meeting, 1944
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
United Nations, April 25, 1945
Security Council
WHO (World Health Organization)
Nuremberg Trials
Berlin Airlift
“containment policy”
George F. Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey
Sec of State George C. Marshall
Marshall Plan
Israel, May 14, 1948
1947 National Security Act
Department of Defense
National Security Council (NSC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
“Voice of America”
Selective Service System
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), 1948
Warsaw Pact
Gen Douglas MacArthur – Japan
Mao Zedong & Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa (Taiwan)
Soviet atomic bomb, September, 1949
Loyalty Review Board
Smith Act of 1940
House Committee on Un-American
Activities (HUAC)
Richard M. Nixon
Alger Hiss
Sen Joseph R. McCarthy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Dennis v. U.S., 1951
Election of 1948
Thomas E. Dewey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Dixiecrats”-Strom Thurmond
“DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”
“Fair Deal”
Korean Conflict
NSC-68
38th parallel
Truman fires MacArthur
Chapter 37 – The Eisenhower Era
International Business Machines (IBM)
“white-collar” workers
“blue collar” workers
“Ozzie and Harriet”
“Leave It to Beaver”
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
McDonald’s, Disneyland
Billy Graham
Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe
22nd Amendment, 1951
Election of 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
“Checkers Speech”
Army – McCarthy hearings
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Earl Warren
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas, 1954
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
“separate but equal”
Interstate Highway Act
Orval Faubus, Little Rock Nine, 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
“sit-ins”
Greensboro, NC, lunch counter, 1960
Massive Retaliation
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
French Indochina/Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Dienbienphu, 1954 Geneva Conference
SEATO
Hungarian rebellion
Iran coup
Suez crisis
Gamal Abdel Nasser
“nationalization”
OPEC
James R. Hoffa
Landrum-Griffin Act (1959)
“Space Race”
Sputnik I & II
National Defense and Education Act
Camp David talks, 1959
Paris conference, 1960
U-2 incident
Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro
Election of 1960
Richard Nixon v. John F. Kennedy
Catholic president (?!)
televised debates
Alaska and Hawaii
Chapter 38 - The Stormy Sixties
23rd Amendment, 1961
Eisenhower’s farewell address
military/industrial complex
Kennedy’s “New Frontier”
Atty Gen Robert Kennedy
FBI - J. Edgar Hoover
Sec Defense Robert S. McNamara
Peace Corps
steel industry conflict
Berlin Wall (1961)
Common Market
Charles de Gaulle
“Flexible Response”
African Congo
Laos -1962 Geneva Conference
Special Forces/Green Berets
Viet Cong/Ho Chi Minh
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962
“hot line”
détente
Freedom Riders, SNCC
James Meredith, U of MS
Birmingham, 1963
JFK’s Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC)
“Great Society”
Barry Goldwater
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
“blank check”
Department of Transportation
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD)
Robert C. Weaver
Medicare
Medicaid
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Project Head Start
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment, 1964
“freedom summer”
Goodman, Cheney, Schwerner
Watts riot
Malcolm X (Little)
Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammed
Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)
miscegenation
MLK, Jr.’s assassination, April 4, 1968
Six-Day War
Senate Committee of Foreign Relations
Senator William Fullbright
Cointelpro
Tet Offensive
Election of 1968
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
RFK’s assassination
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
George C. Wallace
60s counterculture
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Rebel without a Cause, James Dean
Free Speech Movement
Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Manhattan Society
SDS & Weathermen
three P’s of the 60s