US History Final Study Guide

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Important People - FDR- WWII leader of US - Adolph Hitler- WWII leader of Germany - Neville Chamberlain- Prime minister of Britain who signed the Munich Agreement in 1938. - Charles de Gaulle- Lead French forces in WWII - Winston Churchill- Britains leader during WWII - George Patton- leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 19431945. - Dwight Eisenhower- General during WWII and president. Lead D-day invasion - Emperor Hirohito- Japans leader during WWII - Hideki Tojo- was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. - Joseph Stalin- Russian leader during WWII member of the Soviet party. - Benito Mussolini- Itanlian leader during WWII - Francisco Franc- Spanish leader - Harry Truman- President towards the end of WWII. - Robert Oppenheimer- creator of the atomic bomb - Mao Zedong- Chinese leader - Chiang Kai-Shek- lead revolution against China to form Taiwan - Douglas MacArthur- lead the US in Japan and Korean War. - Alger Hiss- spy - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - William Levitt - Joseph McCarthy - John Foster Dulles - Nikita Krushchev - Elvis Presley - Jack Kerouac - Thurgood Marshall - Martin Luther King Jr. - Malcolm X - Rosa Parks - JFK - Fidel Castro - RFK - Lee Harvey Oswald - LBJ - William Westmoreland - Ho Chi Minh - Cesar Chavez - Betty Friedan - Phyllis Schlafly - Gloria Steinem - Hippies - Richard Nixon/his inner circle - Henry Kissinger - Woodward and Bernstein - Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan

Important Terms - Fascism - Totalitarian - Destroyers-for-bases - Lend-Lease - Cash and Carry - Appeasement - WWII: o causes o allied and axis powers o major battles o leaders o Life on the home front: programs, racial tensions o Economic impact - Kamikaze - A bomb: Why did we drop it? - Manhattan Project - Marshall Plan - Cold War: Who? Why? - Iron curtain - Marshall Plan - Truman Doctrine - Containment policy - McCarthyism - HUAC - Blacklist - CIA - NATO - Warsaw Pact - UN - H-bomb - Eisenhower Doctrine - 38th parallel - Suburbs - GI Bill - Franchise - Baby boom - Rock and roll - Sputnik - Beat movement - Warren Commission - Great Society: examples of programs: Medicare, etc.

Important Terms (cont) - Methods of African-American Civil Rights Movement - Brown V. Board of Education - SCLC - SNCC - Sit-in - Black Panthers/Black Power - Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Berlin Wall - Peace Corps - Great Society Programs: examples - Domino theory - Tonkin Gulf Resolution - Hawks vs. Doves: reasons to be on each side - ARVN - VC - Hawks vs. Doves - Napalm/Agent Orange - Pentagon Papers - UFWOC - AIM - Vietnamization - NOW - ERA - Feminism - Counterculture - OPEC - New Federalism - Dtente - WIN - stagflation - OPEC - SALT I and II - Reaganomics - Star Wars - Glasnost - Perestroika WWII Events: - Pearl Harbor - Stalingrad - Battle of the Atlantic - D-Day - Battle of the Bulge - V-E Day - Midway - Iwo Jima - Okinawa - Hiroshima

Nagasaki Japanese Internment

Cold War Events: - Berlin Airlift - Korean War - Second Red Scare - Chinese Civil War: sides - U-2 incident - Election of 1960 - Bay of Pigs Invasion - Cuban Missile Crisis - Space Race - JFK assassination African-American Civil Rights Movement: - Little Rock Crisis - Montgomery Bus Boycott - March on Washington Vietnam War: - Dien Bien Phu - Tet Offensive - Assassinations of RFK and MLK - Kent State Massacre - Democratic Convention in Chicago/Election of 1960 Social Movements - Latino Civil Rights Movement - Native American Movement - Feminist Movement - Woodstock 1970s and 1980s - Watergate - Dtente in China - Camp David Accords - Fall of Berlin Wall - End of Soviet Union