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1942B B U.S. History
second semester study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hoovervilles | towns built by homeless people during the great depression |
| Lend-Lease Act | a law that allowed the U.S. to ship arms and supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers |
| Internment Camps | confining and restricting camps during wartime |
| Marshall Plan | the program under which the U.S. supplied economic aid to European nations to help with reconstruction after WWII |
| Highway Act of 1956 | the act to establish an interstate highway system |
| Vietnamization | the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces |
| Containment | the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | the approval for the expansion of the Vietnam War |
| McCarthyism | the often unsubstantiated attacks on people suspected of being communists |
| Red Scare | the widespread fear of communism take-over in America |
| Freedom Riders | civil rights activists who rode buses throught the south |
| Sit-ins | a way to protest discrimination on which the protesters sit down in segregated businesses and refuse to leave until they are served |
| Bus Boycotts | a mass protest that ended with the Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses are unconstitutional |
| Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka | a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education was unconstitutional |
| SNCC | an organization formed to organize peaceful protests to give young blacks more involvement in civil rights protests |
| SCLC | an organization formed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders to work for civil rights peacefully |
| Nation of Islam | an organization of black Muslims |
| Black Panthers | a militant African-American political organization formed to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto |
| The New Frontier | JFK's proposed new legislative program |
| The Great Society | LBJ's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in America |
| The Manhattan Project | the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | a failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban refugees in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban communist government |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the Soviet Union put a bunch of missiles in Cuba aimed at the U.S. when social tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S. was already high |
| The Berlin Airlift | the airlifting of supplies and food over the Berlin Wall |
| Watergate Scandal | a downward spiral of lies and deceit under the presidency of Nixon starting with a burglary and ending with the resignation of the president |
| Roe vs. Wade | a case that gave women the power to choose whether they wanted to have an abortion, and the right to privacy regarding their decision |
| Reaganomics | the economic policies that President Reagan supported during his presidency |
| Vietnam | a country in Southeast Asia where a war broke out over communism |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | a lawsuit that questioned the constitutionality of "separate but equal" |
| Korematsu vs. the U.S. | the ruling that sending Americans of Japanese descent to internment cams was just |
| Truman Doctrine | a promise that the U.S. would provide help to any countries that are threatened by authoritarian forces |
| Great Depression | A severe economic slump in the 1930s |
| The New Deal | a series of programs enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression |
| Gandhi | a lawyer and leader of the Indian independence movement who employed non-violent tactics of protest |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | a minister and civil rights activist who protested inequality without violence |
| 18th Amendment | the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. |
| Fidel Castro | the Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959-1976 |
| Cesar Chavez | a civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association |
| The Great Society | President Johnson's vision for America |
| The U.S. Roadway Act | an act of 1916 to create a system of roads all over the U.S. |
| Korean War | a fight against communism between the Soviet-backed North Korea and the U.S.-backed South Korea |
| Zero Tolerance | the act of not allowing any infraction of any rule |
| Rosa Parks | a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus |
| Selma | a city in Alabama in which three Voting Rights marches took place |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | the CCC was awork relief program to help unemployed, unmarried men |
| National Recovery Act | a law passed by congress that allowed the President to raise prices on good to benefit the economy |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | the largest power providing corporation in the U.S. |
| Pearl Harbor | a harbor and U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii that was attacked by the Imperial Japanese in |
| Truman and the Atomic Bomb | President Truman made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on two different Japanese cities, killing loads of civilians, including animals and children |
| Hitler | Nazi leader |
| The Cold War | a period of military tension between Cuba and the U.S. It was an arms race and no shots were fired. |
| Women and WWII | in WWII< women were finally allowed to hold non-combative positions in their own branches of the armed forces |
| Beats | a group of post WWII writers who were popular in the 1950s |
| Woodstock | a music and art fair held at Bethel, New York |
| Reagan | 40th president of the U.S. |
| Guerrilla Warfare | a form of warfare in which a small group of civilians employ military tactics to fight someone |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | the first woman appointed tot he Supreme Court |
| Baby Boom | a great increase in birthrate |
| Economic growth in the U.S. in the 1950s | this was the economic upswing of post WWII |
| Joseph McCarthy | an American politician and Republican senator who created Mccarthyism |
| Nixon and the People’s Republic of China | in 1972, Nixon visited the People's Republic of China to normalize relations between China and the U.S. |
| Haight/Ashbury | a city in San Francisco that was an art and music hub for hippies in the 1960s |
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