A-Day UNIT 9 SYLLABUS
WWII & Cold War- Kennedy 1930-1963
AP U.S. HISTORY – K. DelliSanti
Date
Class Activity
Homework/Readings
Monday, February 10
WWII
Homefront-Battles
Brinkley, Ch 25 (pg. 599-613)
Wednesday, February 12
Junior Talks with Guidance
Atomic Bomb
Brinkley, Ch 26 (pg. 615-639)
Monday, February 14
Early Dismissal
Propaganda Analysis
Brinkley, Ch 27 (pg. 641-664)
Wednesday, February 19
Cold War-Communism, Capitalism
Butter Battle Book
Brinkley, Ch 28 (665-692)
Friday, February 21
Cold War
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
Document Analysis
Vocabulary Terms
Tuesday, February 25
Eisenhower-Johnson’s Domestic Policy
Document Analysis
Vocabulary Terms
Thursday, February 27
Tie up loose ends
Document Analysis Due
Vocabulary Terms
Monday, March 3
Unit 9 Test
Unit 9 Cornell Notes Due
Unit 9 Q-Notes Due
Unit 9 Vocabulary Due
Mid-Term Test Corrections Due
Advanced Placement United States History
Northwest Cabarrus High School
K. DelliSanti
Northwest Cabarrus High School
Advanced Placement United States History
Unit 9 Flashcards, Chapters 25, 26, 27, 28
Define and highlight each of the following terms. Each card needs to be numbered in the top right corner.
Use the following example:
1
Definition
-Provided for you on my webpage
-You can summarize my definitions
________(draw a line/fold card in half)_________
Vocabulary Word
(highlighted using color-coded system)
Association Chain/Related Terms
-List 6 terms related to this vocabulary word (practice to get
Specific Factual Information-SFI)
-Ask yourself if there are any related People, Books, Laws,
Political Parties, Wars/Battles, and Other Important
Vocabulary
Front (Blank Side)
Back (Lined Side)
WARNING
*Even though you are not required to do flashcards for them, you are responsible for
knowing the rest of the terms on the website vocabulary list & highlighted terms/concepts
from the notes/text so that you are best prepared for class exams and APUSH Exam.*
People (Pink)
1. 1.America First Committee-1940
 Charles Lindbergh, Isolationism
 Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies-1940
2.Nye Committee3."Merchants of Death”
4.Mussolini (1883-1945)5.Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Nazism
6.Tojo (Hideki)
 Emperor Hirohito
7.United States WWII Generals
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1870-1969
 General Douglas MacArthur
 General George Patton
 Admiral Chester Nimitz
8.Winston Churchill
9.Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)10.Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)11.Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)12.Mahatma Gandhi
13.Nikita Khrushchev, 1955 Geneva Summit Peaceful coexistence14.House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)15.Sen. Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), McCarthyism
 Senator Robert A. Taft16.Alger Hiss17.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg18.Dwight (Ike) (Eisenhower) and Modern RepublicanismAdvanced Placement United States History
Northwest Cabarrus High School
K. DelliSanti
61. Preemptive Strike (Eisenhower)
62. Eisenhower Doctrine
63. Organization of American States (OAS)-Founded in
1948
64. Cuban Revolution/Castro's Revolution-1959
65. Bay of Pigs-1961
66. Kennedy’s New Frontier aid to Other Countries
 Alliance for Progress, 1961
 Peace Corps, 1961
67. AmeriCorps /Volunteers in Service to America
(VISTA)68. Cuban Missile Crisis-October 14-28, 1962
69. G.I. Bill of Rights 1944
70. Taft-Hartley Act-1947
71. McCarran Internal Security Act-1950
72. Fair Deal
73. McCarran-Walter Immigration Act1952
74. Space Race
75. ."Military-Industrial Complex"76. Desegregation of the Armed Forces, 1948
77. E Germany/E Berlin
78. U-2 Incident79. 2nd Red Scare
19.Women’s Military Divisions
 Women’s Air force Service Pilots (WASPS) Woman Ordinance Worker (WOW)o Rosie the Riveter Women’s Army Corps(WACS)
 Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency
Service (WAVES) (SPARS)20.Baby Boomers20b. John Foster Dulles-
Literature/Documents/Court
Cases (Yellow)
21 Korematsu v. U.S., 1944
Political Parties (Purple)
22. Election of 1940
23 Election of 1948
24. Dixiecrats, J. Strom Thurmond
25. Progressive Party, Henry Wallace
26. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
27. Election of 1952
28. Election of 1956
29. Election of 1960
Wars/Economics (Orange)
Laws/Policy (Green)
31. Quarantine Speech-1937
32. Good Neighbor Policy
33. US Neutrality legislation-1935
34. Munich Conference, appeasement, Neville
Chamberlain-1938
35. ."Cash and carry" revision of neutrality 1939
36. Destroyers for Bases Deal-1940
37. "Lend lease" March 1941
38. Atlantic Charter-August 1941
39. Japanese Internment-Executive Order 9066
40. Casablanca Conference-Jan. 14-23, 1943
41. Cairo Conference-November, 1943
42. Tehran Conference-December, 1943
43. Yalta Conference-February, 1945
44. Potsdam Conference-July 26, 1945
45. Partitioning of Korea, Vietnam, Germany
46. ."Iron Curtain" speech, Winston Churchill March, 1946
47. National Security Act- 1947
48. United Nations: Security Council, General Assembly,
Secretary-General-1945
49. Soviet Union Aggression
50. Fall of China to Communism, Mao Tse-Tung (Mao
Zedong)51. Department of Defense created
52. Containment, George F. Kennan
53. Truman Doctrine-1947
54.Marshall Plan, 1948
55. Israel created-1948
56. Berlin blockade/Berlin Airlift-April 1, 1948
57. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-Chartered
April, 1949.
58. Warsaw Pact
59. Massive Retaliation (Eisenhower)
60. Brinksmanship (Eisenhower)
Advanced Placement United States History
80. German Aggression & Appeasement
81. Axis Powers
82. Allied Powers
83.Dday
84.Stalingrade
85.Okinawa
86.Island Hopping
87.Battle of the Bulge
88. Manhattan Project
89. WWII US Homefront
90. Korean War (1950-1953)91. Truman-MacArthur Controversy
Other Important Vocabulary
(Blue)
92. Suburban Growth
93. AFL-CIO merger 1955
Northwest Cabarrus High School
K. DelliSanti