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8th Grade US History
Final Exam Review: Vocabulary
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Unit I: America Post 9/11; Unit II: Progressivism; Unit III: Age of Imperialism; Unit IV: World War I
Unit V: The Roaring Twenties; Unit VI: The Great Depression and New Deal; Unit VII: World War II
Unit VIII: Cold War Social History; Unit IX: Cold War Political History; Unit X: “Back to the Future”
Vocabulary Term
38th Parallel
Allied Powers
Annexation
Appeasement
Armistice
Arms race
Attack on Pearl
Harbor
Axis Powers
Baby Boom
Battle of Iwo Jima
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Airlift
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Big Stick Diplomacy
Vocabulary Term
Black Tuesday
Blitzkrieg
Bootlegger
Brown v. Board of
Education
Bull Market
Bull Moose Party
Buying on Margin
Cash and Carry Plan
Central Powers
Central Intel. Agency
Civil Rights Act
Collective Bargaining
Communism
Conservationists
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Conspicuous
Consumption
Containment
Vocabulary Term
Court Packing Scandal
Cuban Missile Crisis
D-Day Invasion
Demilitarized Zone
Détente
Direct Democracy
Disarmament
Dollar Diplomacy
Domino Theory
Dust Bowl
Embargo
Emmett Till Murder
Espionage and
Sedition Acts
Fallout shelter
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
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PEOPLE, and Phrases
Fascism
Fed. Deposit Insurance
Corp.
Vocabulary Term
Federal Reserve
Federal Trade
Commission
Fireside Chats
Freedom Rides
Frontier Hypothesis
Genocide
Ghetto
GI Bill
Glasnost
Globalization
Great Depression
Great Migration
Great White Fleet
Guerrilla warfare
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Gulf War
Harlem Hell Fighters
Vocabulary Term
Harlem Renaissance
Hegemony
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Holocaust
Hoovervilles
Imperialism
Installment Buying
Interest Rate
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Iron Curtain
Island Hopping
Isolationism
Japanese Internment
Jingoism
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Kamikaze
League of Nations
Vocabulary Term
Lend-Lease Act
Levittown
Liberty Bonds
Little Rock Nine
Lusitania
Manhattan Project
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
Militarism
Missionary
Montgomery Bus
Boycott
Muckraker
NAACP
Nationalism
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
NATO
Nazi Party
Vocabulary Term
Nazi-Soviet Pact
New Deal
Nonviolent resistance
Northern Securities Case
Nuremberg Trials
Open Door Policy
Panama Canal
Perestroika
Platt Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Primary Election
Progressivism
Prohibition
Amendment
Protectorate
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Public Works
Pump-Priming
(Trickle-up)
Vocabulary Term
Pure Food & Drug Act
Rationing
Red Scare
Referendum
Relief/Recovery/
Reform
Remember the Maine
Return to Normalcy
Roosevelt Corollary
Rough Riders
Russian Revolution
Scopes “Monkey”
Trial
Selective Service Act
Self-Determination
Settlement House
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Social Darwinism
Vocabulary Term
Social Security Admin.
Space Race
Spanish-American War
Speakeasy
Sphere of Influence
Square Deal
Stalemate
Teapot Dome Scandal
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Versailles
Trench Warfare
Trickle-Down
Economics
Truman Doctrine
Trust/Monopoly
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases
Victory Gardens
Vietnam War
Vocabulary Term
Volstead Act
War Bonds
War Powers Act
War Production Board
Warsaw Pact
Watergate Scandal
Western Front
White Man’s Burden
Wilson’s Fourteen
Points
Women’s Suffrage
Works Progress
Admin.
Yalta Conference
Yellow Journalism
Zimmermann
Telegram
Definition/Description
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Unit(s)
Associated Words,
PEOPLE, and Phrases