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U.S. II Final Study Guide
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, identify the following terms. Please write at least two sentences for each. Be
sure to number the terms. Things to consider include: important dates, names, places, events, etc.
Dates
1. World War I
2. World War II
3. Spanish American War
4. Vietnam Conflict
5. Korea War
6. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression
Pact
7. Assassination of Franz
Ferdinand
8. Russian Revolution
World War II
9. Joseph Stalin
10. Harry Truman
11. Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. Benito Mussolini
13. Winston Churchill
Cold War
14. United Nations (collective
security)
15. Fair Deal
16. Iron Curtain
17. Containment- Who coined
Term?
18. Truman Doctrine
19. Berlin Airlift
20. Marshall Plan
21. NATO
22. Taft-Hartley Act
23. Chinese Civil War
24. Election of 1948
25. Desegregation- Truman
26. Interstate Highway System
27. National Defense Education
Act
28. U-2 Spy Plane
29. Hungarian Revolt 1956
30. Benjamin Spock
31. Consumerism- 1950’s
32. Levitt Bros. NY
33. Chiang Kai-shek
34. 38th Parallel
35. MacArthur- Korean War
36. HUAC
37. Alger Hiss
38. Baby Boom
Civil and Women’s Rights
39. Orval Faubus
40. Rosa Parks
41. Chief Justice Warren
42. Brown vs. Board of Ed. and
Separate But Equal
43. Betty Friedman
44. Phyllis Schafly
45. Gloria Steinem
46. CORE
47. NOW
48. Martin Luther King Jr.
49. Roe v. Wade
50. March on Washington
51. Freedom Riders
52. Black Panther Party
53. Malcolm X
54. Non-violent Protests
55. Voting Rights Act
56. Gideon v. Wainwright
57. Baker v. Carr
58. Miranda v. Arizona
59. Earl Warren
60. Equal Rights Amendment
Vietnam
61. Ho Chi Minh
62. Geneva Convention 1954
63. Dien Bien Phu
64. Ngo Dihn Diem
65. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
66. College Campuses
67. Search & Destroy
68. Vietnamization
69. War Powers Act
70. Tet Offensive
71. Doves
72. Rolling Thunder
73. Results?
74. Peace of Paris 1973
1960’s
75. John F. Kennedy- religion
76. Flexible Response
77. Fidel Castro
78. Space Race
79. Robert Kennedy
80. Lee Harvey Oswald
81. War on Poverty
82. Lyndon Johnson
83. The Great Society
84. Hippies
85. Music
1970’s
86. Richard Nixon
87. China Relations
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
Silent Majority
Watergate
The “Plumbers”
CREEP
Saturday Night Massacre
Checkers Speech
Shuttle Diplomacy
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
97. Jimmy Carter
98. Camp David Accords
99. Stagflation
100.
Inflation
101.
Panama Canal
102.
Détente
103.
Shuttle Diplomacy
104.
SALT Agreements
105.
Iran Hostage Crisis
1980s
106.
107.
108.
109.
110.
111.
112.
113.
114.
115.
116.
117.
1990’s
118.
119.
120.
121.
122.
123.
124.
125.
126.
127.
128.
129.
130.
131.
Ronald Reagan
The Great Communicator
Supply Side Economics
Nicaraguan Freedom
Fighters
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sandra Day O’Connor
Moral Majority
George H.W. Bush
Iran-Contra Affair
Communism in Latin Am.
Beirut, Lebanon
Savings & Loans
Bill Clinton
Contract with America
Technology
OPEC
Economic Boom
“New Economy”
Oklahoma City Bombings
NAFTA
Unrest in Europe
Operation Desert Storm
Saddam Hussein
Yasser Arafat
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost/Perestroika
2000’s
132.
133.
134.
135.
136.
137.
138.
139.
9/11 Attacks
Global Economy
Outsourcing
World Bank
WTO
Operation Iraqi Freedom
George W. Bush
Newt Gingrich