1950’s and
The Cold War
Terms
Iron Curtain
Containment
38th Parallel
Communism
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Brinkmanship
Truman Doctrine NATO
United Nations Satellite Nation Sputnik I
House Un-American Activities Committee
Korean War
McCarthyism
U-2 Incident
Warsaw Pact
H-bomb
GI Bill of Rights
Suburb
Fair Deal Dixiecrat Baby Boom
Planned Obsolescence Consumerism CIA
Rock ‘n Roll
Urban Renewal
Bracero
People
Douglas MacArthur
Harry S. Truman
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Joseph McCarthy
The Rosenberg’s
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Dr. Jonas Salk
Georgia O’Keefe
Federal Communications Commission
Documents
Interstate Highway Act
22nd Amendment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
Dates
1950
1957
Eisenhower
Doctrine
Korean War
Literature
The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
The Power of Positive Thinking (Peale)
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
The Affluent Society (Galbraith)
Court Cases
Brown v. Board of Education
Quotes
“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the
Communist Party?” (McCarthy)
“The buck stops here.” (Truman)
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Treiste in the Adriatic, an iron
curtain has descended across the continent.” (Churchill)
“You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the
first one and …the last one …will go over very quickly.”
(Eisenhower)
The 1980’s
Terms
Entitlement Program New Right
Glasnost
Affirmative Action
Reverse Discrimination
Conservative Coalition
Moral Majority
Reaganomics
Supply-side Economics
Deregulation AIDS
Iran Contra Affair
Iran Hostage Situation
Sunbelt
Perestroika
INF Treaty
Sandanistas
Tiananmen Square Operation Desert Storm
People
Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
George Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gen. Colin Powell
Gen. Norman Schwartzhopf
Documents
Gramm Rudman Hollings Act
Strategic Defense Initiative
A Nation At Risk (AIDS)
Dates
1989
1991
Literature
Beloved (Morrison)
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (Fulgham)
Iacocca: an Autobiography (Iacocca)
Quotes
“I thought it was a neat idea.” (North on Iran-Contra)
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” (Reagan)
The Great
Depression
Inflation
Recession
Speculation
Deflation
Credit
Price Supports
Soup Kitchen
Bonus Army
Terms
Overproduction
Underconsumption
Buying on the Margin
Black Tuesday
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Shantytown Bread line
Dust Bowl
Direct Relief
New Deal
Black Cabinet
People
Herbert Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Huey Long
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Documents
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Social Security Act
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Federal Securities Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Wagner Act
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Dates
1929-1939
Literature and Entertainment
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
The War of the Worlds (Welles)
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
Crash of the Hindenburg (radio)
American Gothic (Wood)
This Land is Your Land (Guthrie)
Native Son (Wright)
Quotes
“The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.” (Roosevelt)
“I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new
deal for the American people.”
(Roosevelt)
Industrialization
and Urbanization
Terms
Great Plains Wounded Knee
Grange
Chisholm Trail Credit Mobilier Immigration
Populist
Social Darwinism
Transcontinental Railroad Ellis Island
American Federation of Labor Melting Pot
Urbanization
Tenement
Graft
Settlement House
Political Machine
Patronage Civil Service Laissez-Faire
People
Williams Jennings Bryan
George Custer
Eugene V. Debs
William McKinley
Thomas Alva Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Gompers
John D. Rockefeller
W. E. B. Du Bois
Jane Addams
Boss Tweed
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Wright Brothers
Booker T. Washington
Documents
13 , 14 , and 15th Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Morrill Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
th
th
Dates
1877
1890
1898
Literature
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County (Twain)
Risen from the Ranks (Alger)
The Jungle (Sinclair)
Court Cases
Munn vs. Illinois
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Quotes
“We are men; we will be treated as men.” (Du Bois)
“The advance of the frontier has meant…a steady growth of
independence on American lives.” (Turner)
“The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the
fittest.” (Rockefeller)
1990’s and The
WiloliaG
New Millennium
People
William Jefferson Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kenneth Starr
George W. Bush
Osama bin Ladin
Terms
NAFTA
GATT
World Trade Center
Contract with America
Service Sector
Downsize
NASDAQ
Dotcom
Global Economy
Internet Impeachment
Information Superhighway Telecommute
Genetic Engineering
Graying of America
Terrorism
Oklahoma City Bombing
9/11 al-Qaeda Kashmir Jammu Anthrax
Persian Gulf War
Axis of Evil
H. Ross Perot
Newt Gingrich
Al Gore
Bill Gates
Saddam Hussein
Documents
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Proposition 187
Antiterrorism Law of 2001
Dates
1991
1998
2000
2001
Literature
House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)
7Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
Quotes
“We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to
terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision
to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the
terrorists.” (Bush)
Progressive Era
Terms
White Man’s Burden Isolationism NAACP
Imperialism
Diplomacy
Prohibition
Foreign Policy Recall Yellow Journalism
Muckraker
Initiative
Square Deal
Referendum Conservation
Suffrage
Federal Reserve System Panama Canal
USS Maine Bull Moose Dollar Diplomacy
Open Door Policy
Progressive Movement
People
Robert Lafollette
William McKinley
William H. Taft
Susan B. Anthony
Rough Riders
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Henry Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Carrie Chapman Catt
John J. Pershing
Documents
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Treaty
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Dates
1898
1901
1910
Literature
The Jungle (Sinclair)
The Wonderful World of Oz (Baum)
Call of the Wild (London)
Court Cases
Quotes
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” (Hearst)
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.” (Roosevelt)
“I am going to make dirt fly.” (Roosevelt about the Panama
Canal)
“I really believe that we might pull off a campaign which
would mean the vote within the next six years…” (Catt)
Reconstruction
People
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Mark Twain
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Documents
Reconstruction Act
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Terms
Temperance Movement
Literacy Test
Radical Republicans
Segregation
Radical Reconstruction
Freedmen
Scalawags
Grandfather clause
Carpetbaggers
Separate, but equal
Sharecroppers
Interchangeable parts
Ku Klux Klan
Poll Taxes
Dates
1868
1896
1877
Literature
Tom Sawyer: Life on the Mississippi (Twain)
Court Cases
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Quotes
“Corrupt bargain….Our federal Union – it must be
preserved.” (Johnson)
“To the victor belong the spoils…”
“We was robbed.”
The Turbulent
Sixties
People
Terms
Flexible Response
Berlin Wall
Hot Line
Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Black Power
New Frontier Peace Corps Domino Theory
Alliance for Progress NASA Migrant Workers
Warren Commission Great Society
NOW
Medicare Medicaid Hawk
Warren Court
Reapportionment War on Poverty Dove
Vietcong Counterculture Crisis in Little Rock
March on Washington My Lai Vietnamization
SNCC
Sit In
Freedom Riders
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
John F. Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
Nikita Khrushchev
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dien Bien Phu
Lyndon Baines Johnson Thurgood Marshall Robert McNamara
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neil Armstrong
Stokley Carmichael
Malcolm X General William Westmoreland
George Wallace
Cesar Chavez
Henry Kissinger
Shirley Chisholm
Gloria Steinem
Robert Kennedy
Documents
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Economic Opportunity Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1968
24th Amendment
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
SALT
Dates
1961
1963
1964
1965
1968
1969
Pentagon Papers
Silent Majority
Tet Offensive
Court Cases
Baker v. Carr
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
Reynolds v. Sims
Quotes
“The Great Society demands an end to poverty and racial
injustice.” (LBJ)
“Ich ben ein Berliner.” (JFK)
“I have a dream today,..that people will be judged not by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
(MLK)
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
(Armstrong)
The Roaring
Twenties
People
Terms
Isolationism Communism Flapper
Anarchists
Quota System
Teapot Dome Scandal Urban sprawl
Installment Plan
Prohibition
Speakeasy
Bootlegger
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Harlem Renaissance Red Scare
Stock Market Crash
Dates
1919-1933
1920
1929
Literature
Sacco and Vanzetti
Louis Armstrong
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
John L. Lewis
Duke Ellington
Dream Variations (Hughes)
Warren G. Harding
James Weldon Johnson
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Lindbergh
Court Cases
Calvin Coolidge
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Bessie Smith
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
K
Documents
Quotes
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
“The business of America is business.” (Coolidge)
th
18 Amendment
“A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage.”
th
19 Amendment
(Hoover)
th
20 Amendment
Westward
Expansion
Terms
Capitalists
Kitchen Cabinet
Interchangeable Parts Manifest Destiny
Era of Good Feelings Forty-niner
Protective Tariff
Trade Unions
Suffrage
Mason-Dixon Line
Caucus
Factory System
Spoils System Jacksonian Democracy
Immigrant
Intercontinental Railroad
People
Lewis and Clark
Robert Fulton
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Horace Mann
Louis Daguerre
Eli Whitney
Samuel F. B. Morse
Dorothea Dix
James K. Polk
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Cyrus McCormick
Susan B. Anthony
Henry Bessemer
James Monroe
John Deere
Documents
Land Ordinance of 1785
Seneca Falls
Three-Fifth’s Compromise
Louisiana Purchase
Embargo Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Monroe Doctrine Kansas-Nebraska Act
Indian Removal Act
Dates
1803 1812
1845 1848
1849
Literature
The Raven (Poe)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe)
Moby Dick (Melville)
Court Cases
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Quotes
“The people have no right to sell….” (Tecumseh)
“The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners….”(Trail of
Tears)
“Remember the Alamo”
“I will fight no more forever.” (Chief Joseph)
“Damn the torpedoes…Full speed ahead...” (Perry)
World War I
People
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
General John J. Pershing
Eddie Rickenbacker
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Henry Cabot Lodge
War Industries Board
Documents
National Parks Service Act
Selective Service Act
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Treaty of Versailles
Terms
Draft
Fourteen Points
Ratify
League of Nations
Neutrality
Appeasement
Nationalism
Allies
Central Powers
Trench Warfare
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Convoy
Lusitania
Zimmermann note
No Man’s Land Armistice Great Migration
American Expeditionary Force
Propaganda
Dates
1914-1918
Literature
O Pioneers! and My Antonia (Cather)
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)
Court Cases
Muller vs. Oregon
Schenck v. United States
Quotes
“The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Wilson)
“Let us, while this war lasts, forget our special grievances
and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white
fellow citizens and the allied nations that are fighting for
democracy.” (Du Bois)
“I believe…that the first time the first woman [in Congress]
had a chance to say no to war she should say it.” (Rankin)
1940’s and
World War II
Terms
Fascism
Genocide
Neutrality Acts
Hiroshima
Rationing
Totalitarian
Appeasement
Nagasaki
Nonaggression Pact Blitzkrieg Kamikaze
GI Bill of Rights
Kristallnacht
Holocaust
Ghetto
Nuremberg Trials
Concentration Camp Axis Powers
Allies
Home Front
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day Japanese Internment
Pearl Harbor
Island Hopping
Midway
Rosie the Riveter
Manhattan Project
Little Boy and Fat Boy
People
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler
Francisco Franco
Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Hideki Tojo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
Harry S. Truman
George Patton
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
George Marshall
Documents
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Taft-Hartley Act
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Literature
Dates
The Lottery (Jackson)
The Human Comedy
(Saroyan)
Black Boy (Wright)
Common Sense Book of Baby
and Child Care (Spock)
1933
1939
1941-1945
Quotes
“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”
(Churchill)
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – is a date which will live in
infamy.” (Roosevelt)