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U.S.History
Study Guide for Semester II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hoovervilles | Small towns that the unemployed or poor people built in the cities during the great depression. |
| Lend-Lease Act | The Lend-Lease act passed in March 1941 which purpose was to provide U.S. Military aid to foreign countries during WWII. |
| Internment Camps | Internment camps where detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans where ordered to go during WWII by the president. |
| Marshall Plan | |
| Highway Act of 1956 | |
| Vietnamization | |
| Containment | |
| Domino Theory | |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
| McCarthyism | McCarthyism was making false accusations without any evidence and was started by Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
| Red Scare | |
| Freedom rides | |
| Sit-ins | |
| Bus Boycotts | |
| Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka | |
| SNCC | |
| SCLC | |
| Nation of Islam | |
| Black Panthers | |
| The New Frontier | |
| The Great Society | |
| The Manhattan Project | |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| The Berlin Airlift | |
| Watergate Scandal | |
| Roe v. Wade | |
| Reaganomics | |
| Vietnam | |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | |
| Korematsu vs. The U.S. | |
| Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education | |
| Truman Doctrine | |
| Great Depression | |
| New Frontier | |
| The New Deal | |
| Gandi | |
| Dr. Martin Luther | |
| 18th Amendment | |
| Fidel Castro | |
| Ceasar Chavez | |
| The Great Society | |
| The U.S. Roadway Act | |
| Korean War | |
| Zero Tolerance | |
| Rosa Parks | |
| Selma | |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | |
| National Recovery Act | |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | |
| Pearl Harbor | |
| Truman and the Atomic bomb | |
| Manhattan Project | |
| Hitler | |
| Cold War | |
| Woman and WWII | |
| Beats | |
| Woodstock | |
| Reagan | |
| Guerilla warfare | |
| Sandra Day O’Connor | |
| Economic growth in the U.S. in the 1950s | |
| Joseph McCarthy | |
| Nixon and the People’s Republic of China | |
| Haight/Ashbury |