Semester Review
World War II Causes of WW II U.S. role before Pearl Harbor Strategy in the Pacific Unconditional surrender Midway Stalingrad The Eastern Front V-E Day; V-J Day Internment camps
The Cold War and 1950’s Joseph McCarthy Military budgets Division of Germany The House Un- American Activities Committee Berlin Blockade The French in Vietnam Sputnik Military industrial complex Interstate Highway system ContainmentBrinkmanshipSuburbia Beat Generation
Civil Rights Plessy v. Ferguson Sweatt v. Painter Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock GreensboroBirminghamSelmaMemphisKennedy Southern Manifesto Thurgood Marshall Martin Luther King, Jr. James Farmer Jr. CORESCLCSNCC Black Panthers Emmett Till
Kennedy/ Johnson Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall Success of Kennedy as president Alliance for Progress The ‘hotline” Peace Corps Space program New Frontier Warren Court Great Society Kennedy Nixon Debates
Vietnam/ Counter Culture Free Speech Movement The Gulf of Tonkin Charles Manson Walter Cronkite NLF or the Vietcong 68 election Children’s Crusade Ho Chi Minh Trail EscalationVietnamization Pentagon papers Legacy of Vietnam War Muhammed Ali Tinker v Des Moines My Lai Massacre War Powers Act
Nixon and Watergate Bakke v University of California Affirmative action Three Mile Island Spiro Agnew Saturday Night Massacre Executive privilege Yom Kippur War Presidents of the 1970’s Rachel Carson “ A Silent Spring” Environmental Protection Agency
Reagan Moral Majority Ronald Reagan Roe v. Wade Reagan’s Economic goals Evil empire Federal debt
Bush, Clinton, Bush 1988 campaign Gulf War Recession Ross Perot Clinton legislation Budget impasse TalibanAl-Qaeda Kyoto Protocol Osama Bin Laden 9/11/01