To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian Study Guide
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Stephen Ambrose is a world renowned historian and writer. He was chosen by President Eisenhower to be his personal biographer: Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President- Elect (1890 – 1952); Eisenhower, The President; The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D Eisenhower; Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 & Ike’s Spies. In addition he has written several pieces about WWII, my favorites were Pegasus Bridge, Band of Brothers and The Wild Blue. He has also researched and written about 25 other books about the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Lewis and Clark trek across the west, and the Nixon Presidency and more. His work is highly researched and documented; it is presented in a manner that is appealing; Stephen Ambrose has the gift of Storytelling. To America is an interesting culmination of all of his research and writing, but under review. In this love letter to America Ambrose takes us on a journey of reflection. While many of his books discuss an event, his focus is on the humans who made it happen. Reviewing his earlier perspectives of the lives of our national heroes and to some degree villains, in the end he determines that most were men, humans - great humans who under some circumstances make mistakes, use poor judgment, however that should not necessarily summarily remove them from study. Read Ambrose’s arguments and then formulate your own thoughts. We will be discussing each of the chapters in small groups and full class. Your grades will be determined based on completed study guides and participation in discussion and on the vocabulary glossary you will compile on Quizlet.com.
Read each chapter and answer the questions below, your responses should be reasonably thorough and give you the ability to participate in a small group and full class discussion. If you cite passages from the text to support your arguments – please note the page number and page placement (example p 47 PP 3)
Your vocabulary terms need to be put onto your Quizlet account and at the end of the reading you will need to print out your To America glossary and hand in with your completed study guide. (If you do not have a Quizlet account we will set one up for you on Tuesday)
You don't hate history; you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. _ Stephen Ambrose
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Chapter 1: Founding Fathers ………………………(Undaunted Courage)
1. Ambrose observes of Jefferson on page 3 “ His writing showed that he had a great mind and a limited character.” Based on evidence from the text please discuss what Ambrose is arguing regarding Jefferson. ______
2. Discuss the difference Ambrose makes between Jefferson & Washington. ______
3. Ambrose points out that there are many historians/teachers who choose not to include Jefferson or Washington in their curriculum, what is their argument for leaving such men unrecognized? What is Ambrose’s counterpoint? Look at both arguments and then explain your point of view regarding this debate. ______
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Chapter 2: The Battle of New Orleans
1. What was the goal that led to the British attack on New Orleans? Neither side was aware that a peace treaty had already been signed, did that make a difference? What if Jackson had lost? ______
2. Discuss Ambrose’s assessment of Andrew Jackson, over time and through study does his original assessment stand or does it evolve? ______
3. What irony does Theodore Roosevelt point out regarding the free blacks that were part of Jackson’s ragtag army at New Orleans? ______
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Chapter 3: The Indian Country……………………..( Custer and Crazy Horse )
1. Describe the different cultural expectations that Native American societies have compared to non native societies. (Traditional and modern) ______
2. How have Native Americans contributed to American society? ______
3. Ambrose is not entirely happy with Government treatment of Native Americans, discuss the issues and despite these concerns he was persuaded that there has been some benefit; what was the benefit? ______
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Chapter 4: The Transcontinental Railroad (Nothing Like it in the World )
1. Ambrose spends a great deal of time throughout this text reflecting on previous points of view that he has made as an historian and writer, How does his opinion of the capitalist (Railroad giants like Stanford and Huntington) evolve ? (Reflect on the legacy of Robber Baron vs Captain of Industry… this will be a discussion we have later in the year) ______
2. Discuss the role of each of the following regarding the construction of the Transcontinental RR: Lincoln, Judah, “the Big Four”, Chinese & Irish immigrants ______
3. Describe the innovations and inventions that were created out of this ambitious plan – How does Ambrose compare American ingenuity to European?... be sure to address the inventors as well as the inventions and the impact they each had on America and the world ______
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4. How did the Railroad forever alter life in the United States? ______
Chapter 5: Grant and Reconstruction
1. Fill in the chart below to demonstrate what Ambrose was taught earlier regarding Grant and how he perceives Grant today
Grant – according to old school teachers Grant according to Ambrose
2. What role did the KKK play in post Civil War South? What actions did Grant take to counter the KKK? How did the south react? The north? ______
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3. In the end, what is Ambrose’s evaluation of Grant as a General, President and American? ______
Chapter 6: Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginning of the American Century
1. Why did some historians of the 1950s – 70s vilify T. Roosevelt? What characteristics did Theodore Roosevelt possess that made Ambrose admire him so much? ______
2. Discuss the legacy TR left the American people, include: imperialism, military build up, conservationism, & progressive domestic policies. (this should take multiple sentences ☺ ______
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Chapter 7: Democracy, Eisenhower, and the War in Europe Americans at War; Citizen Soldiers; The Supreme Commander: the War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and others
1. According to Ambrose, how did the United States turn the tide of war in favor of the Allies in WWII? ______
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2. Ambrose describes American soldiers as being different from others, particularly German, Soviet and Japanese, what characteristics does he point out that make Americans unique as well as successful? ______
Chapter 8: The War in the Pacific
1. According to Ambrose, how was the war in the Pacific different from the one in Europe? ______
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2. What role did propaganda and race play during WWII in the Pacific? ______
3. Discuss Ambrose’s point of view regarding Truman’s decision to drop the Atomic Bomb, were two necessary … why? Or why not? ______
Chapter 9: The Legacy of WWII
1. Discuss some of the policies Eisenhower put into place to help democratize Germany following the war. ______
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2. Ambrose states: “America’s young men had gone to Europe not to conquer, not to enslave, not to destroy, but to liberate……” What other war in American History might this statement apply and why? ______
3. “…. and no county in the world had the resources of spirit to do what America did.” What was significant about the Marshall Plan and why was it necessary? ______
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Chapter 10: Vietnam
1. Explain why the United States, despite encouraging anti- colonialism, did it become involved in Vietnam? ______
2. How did the conflict in Vietnam impact the home front? Discuss the effect on generations, families, government and the war itself. ______
3. What impact did the conflict and rise of communism in Vietnam have on surrounding nations? ______
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Chapter 11: Writing in and About America
What does Ambrose seem to want to tell you in this chapter? Is it only about writing? Explain ______
Chapter 12: War Stories – Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge
1. Fill in this comparison Chart: Acknowledge each man similarities and differences:
Custer Custer and Crazy Horse Crazy Horse
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2. How and why does Ambrose’s alter his opinion of German soldiers? ______
Pegasus Bridge is my all time favorite Ambrose piece, the focus is on the British 6 th Airborne landing behind enemy lines to capture and hold this bridge for Allies to continue the push toward Berlin. If you want to see the action – very loose interpretation watch John Wayne’s The Longest Day… more about D – Day but Pegasus Bridge is in it ☺…. Odd piece of info one young soldier at the bridge became an actor and actually plays Major John Howard the leader of the British action, in the movie.
3. Stephen Ambrose is an American Historian and an academic; stereotypically teachers/college professors are often viewed as being liberal and overtly critical actions taken by earlier administrations, military officers etc. Based on the praise he receives from students and/or members of an audience do you think the idea of patriotism is important to him? Why or why not? Be sure to cite evidence from the chapter to prove you point ______
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Chapter 13: Writing about Nixon
1. What makes Nixon so hard to categorize….. (you will need to investigate Nixon outside of To America) Why would Ambrose, who clearly didn’t like Nixon, write “When Nixon resigned, we lost more than we gained.” ______
Chapter 14: Writing about Men in Action, 1992 – 2001
What advice does Ambrose give the reader about writing? ______
Chapter 15: The National D – Day Museum
1. Why should we preserve items and memories in places like this museum? Can you predict how we might or what we might preserve for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? ______
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Chapter 16: American Racism
1. What was life like in the South in the 1950s for African Americans compared to the Midwest? Be sure to address demographics of each region ______
2. Ambrose’s experience living near New Orleans in the late 1950s he notes that white people in the South felt perfectly safe with the concept that killing a black person was acceptable. Please find an actual event (and there are several to choose from) in which whites killed a black(s) and were not charged and/or convicted of the crime until after 2000 if ever. Be sure to note your source of information in proper MLA citation format. ______
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Chapter 17: Women’s Rights and Immigration
1. Discuss the role that women had prior to WWII and also address how the war effort altered that role. ______
2. Ambrose discusses the modern Women’s Rights with a very personal story, summarize his experience….. is there a similar story in your family history? ______
3. What impact did modern technology and the Vietnam conflict have on the Women’s Rights movement? ______
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4. What is Ambrose’s perspective on the impact of immigration on the United States? ______
Chapter 18: The United States and Nation Building
1. Describe the “American Spirit” Ambrose points out in this chapter, explain what it is that Americans do differently compared to other “conquering” nations. Find an example of this spirit being demonstrated in Iraq or Afghanistan. (Remember to cite your sources – MLA) ______
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2. Summarize the description of what Bosnia looked like in 2000-01 according to Ambrose. ______
Chapter 19: Nothing Like it in the World
1. From 1776 – 1940 What were some sources of American optimism, according to Ambrose ______
2. Ambrose states that technology while great has also been terrible, particularly for the 20 th century, discuss this double – edged sword. ______
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3. Dam building in the 1930s and ‘40s has led to what kinds of problems now in the 21 st century?
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4. “We are now engaged in a war which will not end with the killing of this or that Islamic leader or the destruction of Arab headquarters on the West Bank or any other temporary triumph.” How does Ambrose believe the only way in which the war on Terror can conclude on a positive note? ______
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Conclusion – Your personal reflection of this text – What did you learn? Find at least one piece from this text that you enjoyed, found interesting or you made a comparison to your own family history or something that simply astounded you.
Remember that when you turn in your final Study guide it must also be accompanied by a complete Glossary that has been completed on your quizlet account. ______
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Quizlet Glossary: You will need to create a new list for each of the following boxes of terms/people/phrases be sure to title by unit and subtitle, once you have completed the glossary please print it in TABLE form and put it together by unit and in order. Glossary will be collected when study guide is due.
Unit 1: To America and Geography Vocabulary and Map foundations (Amsco Introduction)
Demographics renewable resources South Physical Geography tundra West Political Geography New England topographic map Population density Mid-Atlantic Tributary Midwest Archipelago Southwest Fossil fuels North West
Unit 2: Pre-colonial, French and Indian War, Revolution (Chapter 1)
Enlightenment House of Burgesses Boston Massacre Phyllis Wheatly John Locke Ben Franklin Coercive/Intolerable Acts Battle of Yorktown
Montesquieu Albany Plan of Union Common Sense Abigail Adams
Rousseau French and Indian War Thomas Paine John Hancock Voltaire Zenger case Sons & Daughters of Liberty John Dickinson John Rolfe salutary neglect Paul Revere Articles of Confederation Mayflower Compact Proclamation of 1763 Sam Adams Olive Branch Petition Pilgrims Puritans First Continental Congress Declaration of Independence John Winthrop Quebec Act, 1774 Second Continental Congress Valley Forge “power of the purse” Stamp Act Patrick Henry Navigation Acts Battle of Trenton Battle of Saratoga Battle of Oriskany Social Contract
New Government & Writing the Constitution (Chapter 2 & 3)
Bicameral pluralism The Preamble Federalist delegated powers George Washington James Madison Anti-federalist reserved powers Alexander Hamilton caucus Federalists Papers concurrent powers due process double jeopardy Federalism implied powers census habeas corpus veto Washington’s Farewell Address electoral college ratify Whiskey Rebellion primary election Bill of Rights Proclamation of Neutrality impeachment ** List and define Amendments 1 - 10 Northwest Ordinance of 1787 unwritten constitution loose constructionist Necessary & Proper clause (elastic clause) strict constructionist Special Interest Group/Political Action Committees Hamilton Financial Plan Roles and Responsibilities of the House of Representatives Roles and Responsibilities of the President Roles and Responsibilities of the Senate
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Unit 3 : Washington to Lincoln Adams – Monroe (Federalists and the Jeffersonian Era) (Chapters 4 & 5)
Thomas Jefferson Despotism Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 Whigs Commerce Republic Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom Democratic Republicans Lewis and Clark Philanthropy nullification Judicial review Marbury v Madison Corps of Discovery John Adams * impressment Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions XYZ Affair tariff War Hawks John Marshall Marshall Court War of 1812 Sally Hemmings Barbary Pirates Francis Scott Key Aaron Burr Monroe Doctrine John Quincy Adams Revolution of 1800 Tecumseh Era of Good Feelings
John Quincy Adams – Jacksonian Age – Sectionalism (Chapter 5)
Napoleon Louisiana Purchase Eli Whitney interchangeable parts Andrew Jackson dauntless Treaty of Ghent Cottage Industry James Madison Militia abrogated Transportation Revolution Jean Lafitte ` Chesapeake- Leopard affair reconnaissance Henry Clay Privateer War of 1812 Factory system Oliver Hazard Perry Embargo Act, 1807 Treaty of Ghent, 1814 Irish Potato Famine Francis Scott Key War Hawks Hartford Convention Know –Nothings (American Party) Tecumseh & the Prophet Sojourner Truth secession Nat Turner Denmark Vesey Underground Railroad Spoils System Corrupt Bargain John C Calhoun Daniel Webster Worcester v Georgia Trail of Tears Tariff of Abominations
Antebellum Era: Age of Reforms (Chapter 5)
Universal Male Suffrage Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Compromise of1850 Lucretia Mott Temperance Movement Dorothea Dix Dred Scott v Sanford, 1857
Declaration of Sentiments Mental Asylum reforms Penitentiary Systems reform
Abolitionists Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Horace Mann John Brown Bleeding Kansas Harper’s Ferry The Liberator The North Star Missouri Compromise
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Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny, (Chapter 6)
Manifest Destiny Worcester v Georgia bane *Lewis and Clark
Crazy Horse assimilation Mexican –American War Mormons
George Custer Mexican Cession Reservation Joseph Smith
Frederick Jackson Turner Wounded Knee Massacre polygamy
Sitting Bull Gold Rush, 1849 Sun Dance John O Sullivan
Chief Joseph Plutarch’s Lives Navajo code talkers Clay’s American System
Helen Hunt Jackson Dawes Act Battle of the Little Bighorn Texas War of Independence
Barbed wire Buffalo Soldiers American Indian Movement Texas Annexation
Assimilationists Genocide Indian Reorganization Act, 1934 James K Polk
The Alamo Little Big Horn Dawes Severalty Act, 1887 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
Gold Rush “54˚ 40’ or Fight” “John Bull” “Yankee Doodle” and “Uncle Sam”
Kansas Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas Free Soil Party Republican party
Lincoln-Douglas debates Crittenden Proposal Abraham Lincoln
Civil War (Amsco Chapter 6)
Robert E Lee Fort Sumter Anaconda Plan Anti etam Gettysburg
Army of the Potomac Siege of Vicksburg Battle of Bull Run Stonewall Jackson Clara Barton Ulysses S Grant Emancipation Proclamation Philip Sherman William Sheridan NYC Draft Riots John Wilkes Booth James Longstreet Homestead Act Central Pacific Wilderness Campaign, 1864 William Seward Monitor and the Merrimac Gettysburg Address 54 th Massachusetts Appomattox Courthouse 13 th Amendment William Seward Edwin Stanton
Unit 4: Grant to McKinley and an American Empire
Reconstruction (Amsco Chapter 7)
Black codes carpetbagger Radical Republicans th Freedmen’s Bureau Suffrage scalawag 14 & 15 amendments Radical Reconstruction Reconciliation Civil Rights Act, 1866 10% Plan Andrew Johnson Ku Klux Klan sharecropping Wade Davis Bill, 1964
Rutherford B Hayes calumny Force Acts, 1870 & 1871 Edwin Stanton Sam Tilden KKK Act Amnesty Act, 1872 Black Friday, 1869 Mark Twain Jim Crow Laws Compromise of 1877 Thaddeus Stephens Charles Sumner Plessy v Ferguson, 1898 Whiskey Ring Radical Republican Reconstruction impeachment Commodore Matthew Perry Freedmen’s Bureau Open Door Policy Booker T Washington WEB DuBois Literacy tests Poll Tax Grandfather Clause Solid South Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 1863
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Gilded Age – the Growth of Industry (Amsco Chapter 8)
Central Pacific censure Stock Samuel Gompers Credit Mobilier Captains of Industry Robber Barons American Federation of Labor (AFL) J. Pierpont Morgan Union Pacific “the Big Four” at CP trunk line William Vanderbilt Populist party Bessemer process federal land grants
Andrew Carnegie Corporation Capitalism watered stocks/pools Immigration & Imperialism John D Rockefeller isthmus Promontory Point railroad rebates Eugene Debs Knights of Labor conspicuous consumption laissez-faire economics Alexander G Bell Railroad Strike, 1877 Pullman strike, 1894 horizontal integration Samuel FB Morse Vertical integration gospel of wealth US vs EC Knight, 1895 Thomas Edison Menlo Park scab; lockout; blacklist; Montgomery Ward George Westinghouse Sears & Roebuck yellow-dog contract; injunction Terrance Powderly Horatio Alger Trust International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) Sherman Anti-Trust Act Pullman strike Homestead strike Lawrence strike International Workers of the World (IWW) socialism Tammany Hall
William “Boss” Tweed
Agrarian Reaction to Gilded Age (Chapter 8 & 9)
Grange Movement Populi sm Cooperatives Munn v Illinois , 1877 Recall Political Platform Political plank Referendum Initiative RR Pools William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold” Speech Morrill Act Robert Lafollette Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific RR vs Illinois, 1886 16 & 17 th Amendments Thomas Nast Mark Twain
Unit 5: T. Roosevelt & Wilson the Progressive Era (Chapter 9 & 10)
Theodore Roosevelt Elkin Act, 1903 “Bully Pulpit” Lincoln Steffins Elihu Root Open Door Policy moral diplomacy Ida Tarbell Hepburn Act, 1906 Frank Norris settlement house Acculturation Monroe Doctrine Nativism Upton Sinclair Square Deal pandering xenophobia Margaret Sange NAACP
Federal Reserve System Sherman Anti-Trust Act Assimilation machine politics Antiquities Act, 1906 pluralism Bull Moose Party Lochner v NY , 1905 John Muir conservationism New Immigration Helen Hunt Jackson Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902 Chinese Exclusion Act Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906 Admiral George Dewey Jacob Riis William Howard Taft Carrie Chapman Catt Gifford Pinchot Trust busting Lewis Hine Alice Paul th th Tenement Gentleman’s Agreement 16 and 17 amendments muckraker Meat Inspection Act white collar worker USS Maine
Blue collar worker philanthropy
Immigration Push/Pull factors Muller v Oregon, 1908
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Rise of American Power & WWI (Chapter 11)
Henry Cabot Lodge Treaty of Versailles 14 points Pancho Villa Panama Canal Liliuokalani Jingoism Victoriano Huerta Woodrow Wilson John Hay Jack Pershing gunboat diplomacy Alice Paul Lucy Burns National Women’s Party Franz Ferdinand Roosevelt Corollary Great White Fleet American Protectorate Russo-Japanese war Emilio Aguinaldo Rough Riders Panama Canal Gavrilo Princip Alfred Thayer Mahan Big Stick diplomacy Herbert Hoover (Food Admin) Imperialism dollar diplomacy Zimmerman telegram Jeanette Rankin Schenck v US, 1919
Yellow journalism Lusitania Kaiser Wilhelm PM Georges Clemenceau Spanish American War PM David Lloyd George VI Lenin Czar Nicholas II Quota Acts, 1921 & 1924 George Cohan & “Over There” Armistice 11.11.18 @11 a.m. National Origins Act, 1924 Bolsheviks Espionage Act, 1917 Sedition Act, 1918 18 th , 19 th & 20th Amendments Red Scare Women’s International League of Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Kellogg – Briand Pact League of Nations reparations Washington Conference World Court
Unit 6: Roaring Twenties - The Jazz Age, Harlem, Renaissance, Rise of Nativism, (Chapter 12)
Great Migration “return to normalcy” recession Henry Ford
Scopes Trial Teapot Dome Scandal Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Jazz
Marcus Garvey Andrew Mellon bull market bear market Langston Hughes
UNIA installment buying Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Fads of the ‘20s
Sacco and Vanzetti case Babe Ruth flappers bootleggers
Charlie Chaplin Ku Klux Klan prohibition Volstead Act G-men
Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan* Harlem Renaissance Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Bessie Smith Billie Holiday
The Crash and Depression, 1930’s (Chapter 13)
Depression “buying on margin” Herber t Hoover Hoovervilles Hoover blankets
Black Tuesday Interdependence Hawley-Smoot Tariff Franklin D Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt
Dr. Townsend “Rugged Individualism” Bonus Army Dust Bowl
Arkies & Okies “trickle-down theory” New Deal Brain Trust
Bank holiday John L Lewis Glenn Miller “Court Packing” John Steinbeck
Alfred Smith Count Bassie Huey Long Cab Calloway Benny Goodman
Federal Farm Board Mandate Hundred Days Father Coughlin
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CiO) Indian Re-organization Act
Fair Labor Standards Act Schechter Poultry Corp v US, 1935
Federal Emergency Relief Act Public Works Administration Securities and Exchange Commission
Civilian Conservation Corps Federal Housing Administration Social Security Act
Works Progress Administration Agricultural Adjustment Act Tennessee Valley Authority
National Recovery Administration Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Unit 7: Global Crisis … WWII…. And the start of the Cold War…. FDR, Truman & Eisenhower WWII, Korea
WWII (Chapter 14)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) Axis powers G.I. Pearl Harbor Winston Churchill Isolationism Allied Powers Final Solution Joseph Stalin Interventionism Korematsu v US Lend-Lease Act, 1941
Gen. Douglas MacArthur Holocaust Nye Committee Munich Agreement
Adolph Hitler Segregation Cash and Carry Code of Bushido
Benito Mussolini Double V Campaign America First Committee annexation Gen. George Patton Supreme Allied Commander Fascism Neutrality Acts, 1930s Atrocities Tehran Conference rationing (provide examples) J Robert Oppenheimer Appeasement Destroyers for Bases Deal Esprit de corp FDR Atlantic Charter Four Freedoms speech Hiroshima/Nagasaki Harry S Truman Good Neighbor Policy kamikaze Banzai attack Yalta Conference Bataan Death March Battle at Midway Island hopping Atomic bomb Manhattan Project Potsdam Declaration Propaganda Rape of Nanking Arsenal of Democracy Rosie the Riveter Tuskegee Airman pacifism Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade Andrew Higgins WAC, WAVES, WAAF & WM Theodore Geisel Normandy Invasion Erwin Rommel Francisco Franco Quarantine Speech GI Bill Emperor Hirohito Hideki Tojo Isoroku Yamamoto Nuremberg Trials and War Crime Trials in Japan Demobilization Atomic Bomb/Enola Gay
Truman’s Fair Deal and the Cold War – 1945 -1960 (Chapter14 & 15)
Superpower Cold War Taft –Hartley Act Thomas Dewey Virulent Mao Zedong arms race Dixiecrat Marshall Plan Korean War de-facto segregation Strom Thurmond Truman Doctrine George McGovern Joseph McCarthy 38 th Parallel Berlin Airlift NATO political partisanship Kim Il Sung Warsaw Pact Fair Deal Executive Order 9981 Establishment of Israel Balfour Declaration Iron Curtain Syngman Rhee J. Robert Oppenheimer Nation –building General Assembly Security Council Closed shop Decolonization United Nations Veto Power blacklist
Refugee George Kennan European Economic Community (European Union/EU)
Mao & Jiang – Role of US Hydrogen Bomb Czar Bomb *Yalta and Potsdam Conferences Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Hiss case Military-industrial complex Smith Act McCarran Act communist satellite nations Yates v US, 1957 Dennis et.al. , 1951 House Un-American Committee (HUAC) Watkins v US , 1957 censure Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt* Douglas MacArthur* 25 th Amendment
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Unit 8: The World in Uncertain Times JFK - Obama,
(Chapter 16)
Postindustrial society multinational corporation megalopolis Three Mile Island accident Rachel Carson Exxon Valdez acid rain Chernobyl Nuclear plant Greenhouse effect
Containment 1945 – 1960 & Eisenhower Administration (Chapter 17)
Warhawks the draft developing nations Warsaw Pact Doves Brinkmanship U2 incident, Gary Powers Eisenhower Doctrine SEATO Atoms for peace Central Intelligence Agency Domino Theory Nikita Khrushchev Sputnik Gamal Abdel Nasser Levittown’s
Hubris NASA Armistice
Dissent coup de tat Earl Warren baby boom Aswan Dam Suez Crisis consumerism White Flight John Foster Dulles Interstate Highway Act, 1956 “The man in the gray flannel suit”
African American Civil Rights – 20 th century (Chapters 17, 18 & 19)
Malcolm X NAACP* Ro sa Parks Orval Faubus Jackie Robinson Segregation CORE Solid south* A. Phillip Randolph Little Rock 9 Jim Crow SNCC Carl Brashear Martin Luther King, Jr. Black Muslims
Apartheid Freedom Riders Medgar Evers Muhammad Ali
Thurgood Marshall James Meredith Kerner Commission Black Panthers Plessy v Ferguson, 1898 Sharecropper civil disobedience March to Selma Brown v BOE of Topeka, Kansas 1954 Bayard Rustin James Farmer Watts Riots, 1965, ‘67 ’68, & 1992 Civil Rights Act, 1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v US, 1964 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Stokely Charmichael “March on Washington, DC, 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail rd th Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 23 & 24 Amendment Voting Rights Act, 1964 Fair Housing Act, 1968 Sweatt v Painter , 1950 Affirmative Action Fullilove v Klutznick , 1980 Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp v Weber, 1979 McLaurin v Oklahoma St. Regent Regents of Univ. of Calif. V Bakke, 1978 Baker v Carr, 1962
Other groups Civil rights (Chapter 19)
Equal Rights A mendment Roe v Wade, 1973 Betty Friedan glass ceiling Gloria Steinem domestic abuse Equal Economic Opportunity Act, 1972 Title IX Caesar Chavez United Farm Workers Dolores Huerta National Organization for Women (NOW) “Brown power” American Indian Movement (AIM) Occupation Alcatraz Escobedo v Illinois, 1964 Wounded Knee, 1973 Warren Court Mapp v Ohio, 1961 Gideon v Wainwright, 1963 Miranda v Arizona, 1966
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Camelot: Kennedy Admin (Chapter 18)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) New Frontier Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Robert Kennedy Berlin Wall ICBM Robert McNamara Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) F. Batista Peace Corps Alliance for Progress John Glenn Alan Sheppard Yuri Gagarin Apollo Missions Neil Armstrong “Hot Line” Mainstreaming Deinstitutionalization Nuclear Test Ban Treaties, 1963 ’67 Special Olympics Rehabilitation Act, 1973 President’s Council on Mental Retardation Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990 Mills v Board of Education of DC, 1972 PARC v Commonwealth of Pa., 1971 Education of Handicapped Act, 1966 Lee Harvey Oswald Warren Commission Education for all Handicapped Children Act 1975 Jack Ruby
LBJ & the Great Society (Chapter 18)
The Great Society The Clean Air Act, 1963 Weathermen Abbie Hoffman VISTA Housing and Urban Development Bobby Seale Medicare Robert Weaver Head Start Thurgood Marshall* Medicaid counterculture “War on Poverty” Sirhan Sirhan
Water Quality Act, 1965
Vietnam (Chapter 18, 19 & 20)
Le Duc Tho Mai Lai massacre Operation Rolling Thunder Kent State – 4 dead Tet Offensive Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Ho Chi Minh Trail Ngo Dinh Diem Henry Kissinger Pentagon Papers Khmer rouge Lyndon B Johnson* Vietcong Killing fields Pol Pot Guerrilla Warfare Dien Bien Phu Domino Theory* living room war
Students for Democratic Society Vietnamization Walter Cronkite*
Message/Protest music Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome Agent Orange War Powers Act, 1973
Cold War 1969 – 1980 & the Trend toward Conservatism…..Nixon, Ford & Carter (Chapter 20)
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Spiro Agnew Sierra Club Watergate 25 th Amendment Jimmy Carter Amnesty for draft dodgers Détente New Federalism Drug Enforcement Agency Impeachment stagflation inflation 1st & 2 nd Oil Crisis th “silent majority” Earl Warren 26 Amendment Camp David Accords Warren Burger Leonid Brezhnev United States v Nixon Olympic Boycott, 1980 War Powers Act, 1973 Gerald Ford Energy Crisis Iranian Hostage Crisis
OPEC Oil Embargo Yom Kippur war Panama Canal Treaty, 1977
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty (SALT I & II) “boat people” Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)
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America since 1980 – Reagan – Obama (Chapters 21 & 22)
Ronald Reagan Supply side economics Engel v Vitale, 1962 George HW Bush deficit Abington School District v Schempp, 1963 Quota Laws Bill Clinton surplus Tinker v DeMoines School District , 1969 open immigration George W Bush “Reaganomics” New Jersey v TLO , 1985 United Nations Bosnian genocide Rainbow Coalition Vernonia School District v Acton, 1995 Internationalism “American Spirit” Rev. Jesse Jackson Texas v Johnson, 1989 Nation building Barack Obama subsidy Cruzan v Director, Missouri Dept. Health , 1990 Free enterprise Colin Powell Boomers Planned Parenthood of SE Pa, et.al. v Casey , 1992
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 illegal alien Bush v Gore, 2000
Immigration Act 1965 AARP Gray Panthers Lawrence v Texas, 2003 Contra Iran – Contra Affair Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Windsor v United States, 2013 “Star Wars” defense system Mikhail Gorbachev Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm glasnost & Perestroika Brady Bill Federal Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act (1994 Assault Weapons ban) Columbine, Colorado Patriot Act Kyoto Agreement Space Shuttles Challenger & Columbia Yasser Arafat & PLO NAFTA GATT Most Favored Nation Status 9-11 Osama bin Laden Al Qaeda USS Cole Christa McAuliffe 1983 Lebanon bombing of US Marines DOMA & proposition 8
Just because you are done plugging them in doesn’t mean the job is done! You need to take the time to review and learn the terms as it will aid you for both multiple choice AND writing ☺
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