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APUSH
Vocabulary List
Unit 6.
The Cold War / “Hot Wars”
1. Iron Curtain
2.
“Russia whether Tsarist or Communist…”
3. Containment Policy in Greece and Turkey
4. The Truman Doctrine
5. Cold War
6. George Marshall
7. European Recovery Plan (The Marshall Plan)
8. Creation of Israel
9. 4 Powers Agreement
10. Berlin Airlift (1st Berlin Crisis 1948)
11. The Election of 1948
12. States Rights Democrats
13. ”Dixiecrats”
14. Strom Thurmond
15. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
16. Warsaw Pact
17. Red Scare (1950’s)
18. House of Reps Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)/
19. Richard Nixon
20. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
21. Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism
22. Army-McCarthy Hearings
23. Chinese Civil War
24. Nationalist Chinese - Chaing Kai-Shek
25. Communist Chinese - Mao Zedong
26. U.N. Security Council Soviet Boycott
27. 38th Parallel
28. “Police Action”
29. General Douglas MacArthur
30. MacArthur Fired!!
31. “Old Soldiers Never die…
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32. Pusan Perimeter
33. Amphibious assault at Inchon
34. Yalu River
35. The Fair Deal
36. Election of 1952
37. “I like Ike”
38. Richard Nixon
39. Checkers Speech
40. Korean Armistice of 1953
41. DMZ
42. 38th Parallel
43. The Arms Race
44. John Foster Dulles
45. Brinkmanship
46. (M.A.D.) Mutually Assured Destruction
47. The Space Race
48. Sputnik I
49. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMS)
50. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
51. John Glenn
52. Neal Armstrong
53. Sally Ride
54. Nikita Khrushchev
55. Peaceful Co-existence
56. Election of 1956
57. Suez Canal Crisis
58. Eisenhower Doctrine
59. Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debates
60. “We will bury you…”
61. Paris Summit 1960
62. U-2 Spy Plane & Francis Gary Powers
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The Civil Rights Movement
1. 13th Amendment
2. 14th Amendment
3. 15th Amendment
4. Plessy V. Ferguson
5. Desegregation of the Armed Forces (Truman 1948)
6. Brown v. Board of Ed of Topeka
7. Thurgood Marshall
8. Earl Warren
9.
“With all Deliberate Speed”
10. ”Little Rock Nine”
11. Orval Faubus
12. Rosa Parks
13. Montgomery Bus Boycott
14. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
15. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
16. Passive Resistance
17. Civil Disobedience
18. Gandhi
19. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
20. Sit-Ins and Pickett Lines
21. Freedom Riders (1961)
22. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) “Snick”
23. March on Washington (1963)
24. “I have a dream”
25. Civil Rights Act of 1964/
26. Voting Rights Act of 1965
27. “Literary Test”
28. 24th Amendment (Poll Tax) 1964
29. Grandfather clause
30. “Long Hot Summer” Freedom Summer
31. The Black Power Movement
32. Stokley Carmicheal
33. Nation of Islam
34. Malcolm X (Little)
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Turbulent 60’s
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Television Debates
3. Election of 1960
4. New Frontier
5. Alliance for Progress
6. Bay of Pigs
7. Cuban Missile Crisis
8. Flexible Response
9. Peace Corps
10. Lee Harvey Oswald
11. Lyndon Baines Johnson
12. The Great Society (Johnson)
13. War on Poverty
14. Economic Opportunity Act 1964
15. VISTA
16. Headstart
17. Medicare/Medicaid
18. Department of Housing & Urban Development
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Vietnam War
1. Dien Bien Phu
2. Geneva Conference 1954
3. Ho Chi Minh
4. Vietcong
5. Ngo Dinh Diem
6. Domino Effect
7. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
8. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/“Take all the necessary measures to repel any attack”
9. Tet Offensive
10. Doves & Hawks
11. 1968, “The year of coming apart!”
12. “I will not seek nor accept…”
13. Chicago Democratic Presidential Convention
14. Election of 1968
15. Moral Majority
16. Vocal Minority
17. Vietnaminization
18. Ho Chi Minh Trail
19. My Lai Massacre
20. Secret Bombing of Cambodia
21. Kent State Shooting
22. Pentagon Papers
23. Daniel Ellsberg
24. Henry Kissinger
25. Le Doc Tho
26. Treaty of Paris 1973
27. Detente
28. Ping-pong diplomacy
29. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
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The Contemporary World
1. CREEP
2. Election of 1972
3. Watergate
4.
“I am not a crook!”
5. Gerald Ford
6. Nixon Pardon
7. Pardon of Draft Dodgers
8. Jimmy Carter
9. Camp David Accord 1979
10. Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
11. Ayatollah Khomeini
12. Hostages – American Embassy in Iran
13. Olympic Boycott
14. Election of 1980
15. Ronald Reagan
16. Conservative Revolution
17. Moral Majority
18. Reaganomics
19. Sandra Day O’Connor
20. Election of 1984
21. Walter Mondale
22. Geraldine Ferraro
23. Star Wars (not the movie!)
24. Roe v. Wade (1973)
25. Lebanon (1983)
26. Grenada (1983)
27. Mikhail Gorbachev
28. Election 1988
29. George Bush
30. “Read My Lips”
31. Michael Dukakis
32. Tiananmen Square
33. Berlin War (1989)
34. Soviet Break-up
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35. Saddam Hussein
36. Iraq invasion of Kuwait
37. Storming Norman Schwarzkopf
38. Operation Desert Storm
39. Election of 1992
40. “Read My Lips”
41. It’s the economy, stupid”
42. Bill Clinton
43. Health Care Crisis
44. Whitewater
45. Paula Jones
46. “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
47. NAFTA
48. Contract with America
49. Welfare Reform (1996)
50. Election of 1996
51. Bob Dole
52. Oklahoma City Bombing
53. Monica Lewinsky
54. Clinton Impeachment
55. Election of 2000
56. George W. Bush
57. Al Gore
58. September 11, 2001
59. War on Terrorism
60. Invasion of Afghanistan
61. Patriot Act
62. Guantanamo Bay
63. Definition of Terrorism and Enemy Combatants
64. Iraq War
65. Capture of Saddam Hussein
66. Destabilization of Iraq
67. Election of 2004
68. John Kerry
69. Swiftwater.com
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70. Recession of 2008
71. Election of 2008
72. Barack Obama
73. “Change We Can Believe In”
74. Affordable Health Care Act