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Chapter 25: Use pages 724-746 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
Herbert Hoover
Public Works Projects
Daytime radio shows sponsored by laundry detergents.
Relief
Franklin D. Roosevelt
She was considered FDR’s “eyes and ears”.
CCC
TVA
AAA
Established to guarantee bank deposits.
Court Packing Plan
Dust Bowl
Farmers who moved from place to place looking for work.
Questions:
1. What did Roosevelt hope to accomplish with his “Court Packing Plan?”
2. What were two trends the depression produced in entertainment and the arts?
3. How were minorities affected by the depression?
4. How did buying stock on margin contribute to the stock market crash?
5. Why wasn’t Hoover reelected in 1932?
Chapter 26: Use pages 752-780 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
Dictators
Fascism
Fascist leader of Italy
Communist leader of the Soviet Union
Neutrality Acts
Area where Hitler sent troops in March of 1936
Munich Conference
Non-Aggression Pact
German tactic called “lightning war”
Maginot Line
Axis Powers
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Lend-Lease Act
Hideki Tojo
Attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 and led to a
declaration of war by the United States on Japan
Internment Camps
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
D-Day
This battle took place in December of 1944. Here the Germans
were able to drive artillery deep into the bulge of the Allied lines
V-E Day
He took over as president after FDR died
Holocaust
American commanding general in the Pacific
Battan Death March
Battle of Midway
Japanese suicide pilots
Top-secret operation created by Roosevelt to develop the atomic
bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
V-J Day
Questions:
1. How did the government raise money to fund the war effort?
2. How did women contribute to the war effort?
Chapters 27: Use pages 788-809 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
Harry S. Truman
United Nations
Policy to stop Soviet and Communist expansion.
Created the Marshall Plan that sent aid to Western European
countries after WWII.
Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act
Taft-Hartley Bill
1948 Election
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift/Blockade
Chinese Communist leader who defeated Chiang Kai-shek.
The prewar boundary in Korea.
Douglas MacArthur
Demilitarized Zone
Red Scare
McCarran Act
HUAC
This couple was sentenced to death for supposedly giving secrets
about the atomic bomb to the Soviets.
Joseph McCarthy
These hearings brought an end to McCarthyism.
Questions:
1. Make a timeline of the course of the Korean War.
2. What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
3. How did the Taft-Hartley Act affect business and unions?
4. How do you think television affected the outcome of the Army-McCarthy hearings?
5. Why did the Red Scare occur?
Chapters 28: Use pages 814-831 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
1952 Presidential Election
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower’s running mate in 1952.
Federal Highway Act
Arms Race
Created to challenge the Soviet space program.
U-2 Spy Incident
Generation Gap
Betty Friedan and The
Feminine Mystique
Policy of responding to an attack with overwhelming force.
Air raid shelters
Suburbs
Questions:
1. What was the domino theory?
2. What was the U-2 spy incident?
3. How did American’s per capita income change during the 1950s?
4. Describe the link between television and consumer spending in the 1950s.
5. How did the automobile change the way Americans lived?
6. How were American inner cities changing during the 1950s?
Chapters 29: Use pages 838-853 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Court case ended segregation in schools
NAACP
Little Rock
This person started the Montgomery bus boycott with her
refusal to give up her seat
Integration
Civil disobedience
SCLC
These candidates ran against each other in the 1960 election
Civil Rights Act 1964
Sit – ins
Group that organized the Freedom Rides
Malcolm X
Voting Rights Act 1965
Black Panther Party
This group fought for women’s rights
ERA
Cesar Chavez
Chapters 30: Use pages 866- 889 to complete the study guide.
Terms: Write the definition and the significance of each term.
Ho Chi Minh
Vietminh
Theory that countries next to a communist country are likely to
become communist as well
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
Communist supporters in South Vietnam that fought against the
United States and South Vietnamese
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Lyndon Johnson
Name for the sustained bombing campaign of North Vietnam
Guerilla warfare
Napalm and
Agent Orange
The gap that was created between what Johnson told the public
and what they were seeing on TV
Search and destroy
missions
Draft
Doves vs. Hawks
He won the 1968 election on his promise of “peace with honor”
Tet offensive
Vietnamization
Questions:
1. Who was Ho Chi Minh and why was he important?
2. Who was Ngo Dinh Diem and why did the South Vietnamese dislike him?
3. Who were the Vietcong and why were they difficult to fight?
4. Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam?
5. How did people in the US respond to the war in Vietnam?
6. Explain what happened during Tet.
Watergate and Nixon
Know these terms
Detente
Balance of
Power
Shuttle
Diplomacy
Henry
Kissinger
Stagflation
deficit
Affirmative
action
What was the sequence of events concerning the Watergate scandal?
Who did Richard Nixon defeat to win the 1972 election?
Why did President Nixon resign?
Why did President Ford “pardon” Richard Nixon? What is meant by
“pardon”?