Thursday, March 20, 2014

AP US Chapters 36-40 Study Guide


Cold War 1945-1960

Bretton Woods Conference 1944/Dumbarton Oaks Conference 1944/United Nations Charter Conference 1945/Security Council/General Assembly/Secretary General/Yalta Conference 1945/Potsdam Conference 1945/Iron Curtain Speech 1946/Biopolarity, Third World/Satellite Countries/Nuremberg Trials 1945/Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1946/Voice of America/Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE)/Josip B. Tito/Truman Doctrine 1947/Creation of Israel 1948/Marshall Plan 1948/Czechoslovakian Coup 1948/Organization of American States (OAS) 1948/Point Four Plan 1949/Berlin Block and Airlift 1949/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1949/Anzus 1951/Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) 1954/Warsaw Pact 1955/Baghdad Pact 1955, Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) 1958/Common Market, European Economic Community (EEC) 1957/Chinese Civil War, Mao Tse-Tung/Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomingtang/Korean War 1950-1953/Panmunjom 1951/Truman-MacArthur Controversy 1952/John F. Dulles (brinkmanship)/pre-emptive strike/massive retaliation/Containment Policy/Peaceful Coexistence/Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964/Hungarian Revolution 1956/Suez Canal Crisis, Gamal Nasser 1956/Eisenhower Doctrine 1957/Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)

Civil Rights in the late 1940’s and 1950’s

A, Phillip Randolph/Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 1942/Gunnar Mydral/Army Desegregation 1948/Thurgood Marshall/Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956/Martin Luther King Jr./Central High School 1957 (Little Rock, AR)/Civil Rights Act 1957/Separate but Equal Doctrine/NAACP/Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1957/Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 1960/Sit-ins 1960

Civil Rights in the 1960’s

SNCC and Stokley Carmichael/Freedom Riders/Medgar Evers/March on Washington 1963/Civil Rights Act 1964/Voting Rights Act 1965/Malcolm X/Black Muslims/Black Power/Watts 1965, Detriot 1966 and Kerner Commission 1967/Black Panthers 1967/Civil Rights Act 1968/defacto and de jure segregation/Robert Weaver and HUD

Vietnam 1954-1973

Domino theory/Ho Chi-minh (Vietminh)/Viet Cong/Dien Bien Phu 1954/Geneva Conference of 1954/Ngo Dinh Diem/De-militarized Zone/Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 and Senator Fullbright/Tet Offensive 1968/My Lai 1968/Kent State, Jackson State 1970/Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers/William Westmoreland and testimony before Congress/Vietnamization/Nixon Doctrine 1969/Hai Phong 1972/Laos, Cambodia/Paris Accords 1973
1960’s

U-2 Incident 1960/John F. Kennedy/Berlin Wall 1961/Peace Corps 1961/Bay of Pigs 1961/Fidel Castro/Alliance for Progress 1961/Cuban Missile Crisis 1962/Flexible Response/Trade Expansion Act 1962/Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963/Earl Warren/Warren Commission 1963/Lydon B. Johnson/War on Poverty/Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) 1964/Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO) 1964/Medicare and Medicaid 1965/Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965/Higher Education Act 1965/Dominican Republic Intervention 1965/Salvador Allende/Six-Day War 1967/John Birch Society/Barry Goldwater/New Left/Neil Armstrong/Sunbelt/Rustbelt/Robert F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon/George Wallace/Senator George McGovern/Democratic Party Convention Riots 1968/Rachel Carson/Ralph Nader/Betty Friedan/NOW/ERA

1970-1992

Richard Nixon/EPA, Clean Air Acts/Cesar Chavez/American Indian Movement (AIM)/Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1969/SALT I 1972/Henry Kissinger, détente/Recognition of China 1972/Revenue Sharing 1972/War Powers Act 1973/Yom Kippur War 1973/Oil Embargo 1973/Warren Burger/Watergate 1973/Geral Ford/stagflation/Jimmy Carter/Panama Canal Treaty 1978/Camp David Accord 1978/SALT II 1979/Invasion of Afghanistan 1979/Olympic Boycott 1980/Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979-1981/Ayatollah Khoumeini/Ronald Reagan/supply-side economics/Sandra Day O’Connor/Secretary of the Interior James Watt/Three Mile Island 1979/Lebanon Intervention 1982/Invasion of Grenada 1983/Nicaragua/Iran-Contra Affair/Star Wars (SDI)/Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition/Panama, General Manuel Noriega/corporate raiders/Persian Gulf War 1990-1991/Mikhail Gorbachev


AP Chapters 31-35 Study Guide


1920’s

1919 Strikes/Sit Down Strikes/The Big Red Scare 1919-1920/Criminal Syndicalist Laws/Volstead Act 1919/KDKA, Pittsburgh 1920 (commercial radio)/Ku Klux Klan 1920’s/Election of 1920 (Cox, Harding, and Debs)/Esch-Cummins Transportation Act 1920 (effect of RR and ICC)/Merchant Marine 1920/Norris Muscle Shoals Bill 1920 (development of Tennessee Valley)/Sacco-Vanzetti Case 1921/Depression of 1921/Veteran’s Bureau 1921/Bureau of Budget 1921/Capper-Volstead Act 1921 (farming)/Emergency Quota Act 1921/Johnson Immigration Act 1924/Immigration Act 1929/McNary-Haugen Bill 1924/Adjusted Compensation Act 1924/Federal Farm Board 1929 (money to collective farms)/Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act 1932 (outlaw yellow dog contracts)/Lindbergh Law 1932/Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) 1932 (create stability at the top)/Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1932/Hoovervilles/Return to Normalcy and Harding/Andrew Mellon, Supply-Side Economics/Teapot Dome Scandal 1921/Harding Scandals and Ohio Gang/Progressive Party 1924 and La Follete/Alfred E. Smith 1928 (Democrat)/The Lost Generation (young US writers in Paris after the war)/Henry L. Mencken and The American Mercury/Theodore Dreiser and The American Tragedy/F. Scott Fitzgerald and This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby/Sinclair Lewis and Main Street and Babbitt/Eugene O’Neill and The Emperor Jones and Strange Interlude/T.S. Eliot and The Wasteland/Bruce Barton and The Man Nobody Knows/Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms/Robert L. Frost/Carl Sandburg and bio of Lincoln/modernism/Sigmund Freud/Scopes Trial 1925/Fundamentalism/William A. Sunday (revivalist preacher claimed individual faith over church doctrine)/Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin/Henry Ford/Alfred Sloan (GM)/D.W. Griffith and The Birth of A Nation 1915/The Jazz Singer 1927/Charles Lindbergh/Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Jack Dempsey/The Harlem Renaissance/Langston Hughes/James Weldon Johnson/Marcus Garvey/Knox Resolution 1921 (US and Germany)/Washington Naval Disarmament Conference 1921/Emergency Tariff Act 1921/Fordney-McCumber Tariff 1922/World Court (division of L of N)/Dawes Plan 1924/Dwight W. Morrow (aide Mexico w/o US intervention)/Good Neighborhood Policy/Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928/Wall Street Crash 1929/Great Depression/Young Plan 1929/Hawley- Smoot Tariff 1930/Clark Memorandum 1930/London Naval Conference 1930/Hoover Moratorium 1931/Recogntion of Russia 1933


Roosevelt: New Deal (1933-1941)

John M. Keynes/Pump Priming/Deficit Spending/Bank Holliday 1933/Hundred Days 1933/Relief, Recovery, and Reform/Brain Trust/Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933/Economy Act 1933/Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act 1933/Banking Act (FDIC) 1933/National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) 1933/Public Works Administration (PWA) 1933/Agircultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 1933/Unemployment Relief Act (CCC) 1933/Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) 1933/Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) 1933/Civil Works Administration (CWA) 1933/Muscle Shoals Act, TVA 1933/National Youth Administration (NYA) 1933/Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act 1934/Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 1934/Securities Act 1934/Securities Exchange Act (SEC) 1934/Rural Electrification Act (REA) 1935/Wheeler-Rayburn Act 1935/Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935/Public Utility Holding Act 1935/National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) 1935/Revenue Act 1935/Social Security Act 1935/Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) 1936/Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act 1936/Court Reorganization Bill 1937/United States Housing Authority 1937/Fair Labor Standards Act 1938/Hatch Act 1939/Frances Perkins/Eleanor Roosevelt/Huey P. Long/Charles E. Coughlin/Francis E. Townsend/Upton B. Sinclair/John Steinbeck/Dust Bowl/Alfred M. Landon/Wendell L. Willkie

World War II 1939-1945

Attack on Manchuria 1931/Hoover-Stimson Doctrine 1932/Cordell Hull/Hawes-Cutting Act 1933/Montevideo Conference 1933/Rio de Janeiro Conference 1933/Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934/Nye Committee 1934-1936/Merchants of Death/Buenos Aires Conference 1936/Spanish Civil War, Franco 1936/Ethiopia, Selassie/Sino-Japanese War 1937/Panay Incident 1937/Quarantine Speech 1937/Lima Conference 1938/Declaration of Panama 1939/Act of Havana 1940/Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies/America First Committee/Benito Mussolini/Adolf Hitler/Nazism/Final Solution/Munich Conference, appeasement 1938/Austrian Anschluss 1938/Invasion of Poland 1939/Blitzkrieg/Charles de Gaulle/Axis and Allied Powers/Cash and Carry/Destroyer Deal/Lend-Lease Act 1941/Pearl Harbor 1941/Stalingrad 1942/El Alamein 1942/Executive Order #9066/War Production Board (WPB)/Office of War Mobilization (OWM)/Office of Price Administrations (OPA)/Eisenhower and MacArthur/Second Front/D-Day, 6/6/1944/Battle of the Bulge 12/16/1944/Winston Churchill/Joseph Stalin/Atlantic Charter 1941/Casablanca Conference 1943/Unconditional Surrender/Cairo Conference 1943/Tehran Conference 1943/Hideki Tojo/Emperor Hirohito/Coral Sea/Midway 1942/Okinawa 1945/Manhattan Project/J. Robert Oppenheimer/Harry Truman/Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945



Domestic Affairs 1940-1960

Revenue Act 1942/GI Bill of Rights 1944/Employment Act 1946/Tatf-Hartley Act 1946/Robert A. Taft/Dixiecrats 1948/Progressive Party 1948/Thomas E. Dewey/Fair Deal/Dwight D. Eisenhower/”military-industrial” complex/Adlai Stevenson/MacCarran-Walter Immigration Act 1952/Interstate Highway Act 1955/Sputnik 1957/St. Lawrence Seaway 1959/Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism)/House of UnAmerican Activities Committee 1938/Smith Alien Registration Act 1940/Alger Hiss, Whitaker Chambers/MacCarran Internal Security Act 1950/Julius and Ethel Rosenberg/AFL-CIO Merger 1955/Landrum-Griffin Act 1959/Jimmy Hoffa

AP US 4th Quarter Readings and Test Dates

3/21- read pages 770-783 and complete the parts of the "New Deal" chart that are applicable
3/24- read pages 783-798 and complete the remaining components of the "New Deal" chart and the handout concerning the Dust Bowl
3/25- read pages 800-815
3/26- read pages 815-820
3/27- read pages 821-832
3/28- read pages 832-849
3/31- Review for CHS 31-35 Test
4/1- CHS 31-35 Test
4/2- read pages 852-862
4/3- read pages 862-872
4/4- read pages 872-881
4/7- read pages 882-895
4/8- read pages 895-902
4/9- read pages 902-908
4/10- read pages 909-920
4/11- read pages 920-929
4/14- read pages 929-942
4/15- read pages 942-952
4/16- read pages 952-965
4/17- read pages 966-977
4/21- read pages 977-988
4/22- read pages 989-1010
4/23- Review for CHS 36-40 Test
4/24- CHS 36-40 Test

Monday, March 17, 2014

Extra Credit

The following two videos can be viewed, along with a page summary and a page reflection for extra credit.

War Letters

War of the Worlds

Friday, March 7, 2014

For 3/17

For 3/17, have Chapter 32 read and have watched the documentary linked below:

Henry Ford

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Chapters 25-30 Study Guide


AP US History
Chapters 25-30 Study Guide

Black History 1865-1910

Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute/George W. Carver/W.E.B. DuBois/Niagra Movement of 1905/NAACP/National Urban League

Politics of the Late 1800’s

William H. Seward/Purchase of Alaska 1867/Maximillian in Mexico/Hamilton Fish/Treaty of Washington 1871/Horace Greeley/Liberal Republicans 1872/Election of 1876/Waving the Bloody Shirt/Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)/Compromise of 1877/Solid South/Ulysses S. Grant/Credit Mobilier/Jay Gould, James Fisk, Black Friday 1869/Panic of 1873/Whiskey Ring 1875/Specie Resumption Act 1875/Mulligan Letters 1876/Indian Ring 1876/James Garfield/Chester A. Arthur/Greenbacks/Greenback-Labor Party 1878/Ohio Idea/Stalwarts 1880/Half-Breeds 1880/Mugwumps 1884/Pendelton Civil Service Act 1883/Roscoe Conkling/James G. Blaine/Rum, Romanism, Rebellion 1884/Grover Cleveland/Benjamin Harrison/McKinley Tariff 1890/Billion-Dollar Congress/Panic of 1893

Rise of Big Business 1870-1900

Laissez-Faire/Adam Smith/Robber Barons/Horizontal and Vertical Integration/Stock Watering/Pools/Holding Companies/Trusts/Interlocking Directorates/Long and Short Haul, Rebates/Bessemer Process/Mesabi Range/Henry C. Frick/George Westinghouse/Thomas A. Edison/Alexander G. Bell/Union and Central Pacific Railroads/James G. Hill, Great Northern Railroad/Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York Central/John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil/Andrew Carnegie/J. Piermont Morgan/Morgan Bond Transaction/Gustavus Swift, Philip Armour/James Duke, American Tobacco/Jay Cooke/Elbert Gary, U.S. Steel 1901/Windom Committee 1874/Cullow Committee 1886/Interstate Commerce Act 1887

Urbanization and Immigration 1870-1915

Gerrymandering/New Immigration/streetcar suburbs and tenements/William M. Tweed/George Plunkitt/Tammany Hall/Thomas Nast/Anthony Comstock/Jane Adams and Hull House/James Bryce/John Roebling/Louis Sullivan/Frank L. Wright/Aschan School, Armory Show 1913/Literacy Tests/Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882/American Protection Agency 1887/Dillingham Committee 1911/Denis Kearney/Horatio Alger/Joseph Pulitzer/William Randolph Hearst/Yellow Journalism


Rise of Labor 1866-1900

Collective Bargaining/Injunction/Strikes, Pickets, Boycotts/Company Unions/Closed Shop, Blacklist/Yellow Dog Contracts/William Sylvis, National Labor Union 1866/Stephens, Powerdly, Knights of Labor 1869/Great Railroad Strike 1877/Samuel Gompers and the AFL/Haymarket Square Riot 1886/Homestead Steel Strike, Pinkertons 1892/Pullman Strike 1894/American Railway Union/Eugene V. Debs and the American Railway Union/Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1894/Dingley Tariff 1897

The Frontier 1850-1890

Comstock Lode/Homestead Act of 1862/Morril Act of 1862/Chivington Massacre (Sand Creek Massacre) of 1864/Washita River, Black Kettle in 1869/Indian Appropriations Act of 1871/Joseph Glidden/George Custer and Little Big Horn (1876)/Helen H. Jackson and A Century of Dishonor/Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce/Dawes Severalty Act of 1887/Hatch Act of 1887/Sooners and Boomers/Ghost Dance Movement and the Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)/Fredrick Jackson Turner/Safety Valve Theory

Social and Intellectual Development 1860-1900

Chautauqua Movement 1874/John Hopkins University 1876/Charles Darwin/Social Darwinism/Herbert Spencer/Henry W. Beecher/Josiah Strong/Lester F. Ward/Andrew Carnegie, Gospel of Wealth/Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds/Social Gospel, YMCA/Walter Rauschenbusch/Washington Gladden/Charles Sheldon/Dwight L. Moody/Mary B. Eddy/Gilded Age/Nouveau Riche/Edward Bellamy/Henry George/William James, Pragmatism/E.L. Godkin/William D. Howells/Henry James/Stephen Crane/Hamlin Garland/Joel C. Harris/Bret Harte/Mark Twain/Horatio Alger/Realism/Thomas Eakins/Winslow Homer/Augustus Saint-Gaudens/Joseph Pulitzer/William Randolph Hearst/Yellow Journalism/Susan B. Anthony/Carrie Chapman Catt/Alice Paul/Francis Willard, WCTU 1874, Carrie A. Nation

Reform Movements 1867-1916

Bimetallism/Free Silver/Crime of 73/Bland-Allison Act of 1878/Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890/Coxey’s Army (1894)/Gold Standard Act of 1900/Granger Movement (1867)/Granger Laws/Farmers Alliance of 1879 and Ben Tillman/Populist Party (1891)/Omaha Platform (1892)/William McKinley/William Jennings Bryan/Cross of Gold Speech/muckrackers/Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives/Upton Sinclair/initiative/referendum/recall/direct primary/Australian ballot/Margaret Sanger and “birth control”/Oliver W. Holmes/Charles E. Hughes/Election of 1900 (McKinley and Bryan)/Teddy Roosevelt and Square Deal/consumerism/Commission Plan (1900) v. City Manager Plan (1913)/Newlands Act of 1902/Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902/Elkins Act of 1903/Hepburn Act of 1906/Meat Inspection Act of 1906/Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906/Panic of 1907/Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909/Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (1909)/Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911/Wisconsin Idea and LaFollete/William H. Taft/New Nationalism and the Bull Moose Party (1912)/Woodrow Wilson and New Freedom (1912)/”triple wall of privilege”/Louis Brandeis/Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party/Federal Reserve Act of 1913/Underwood-Simmons Tariff of 1913/Federal Trade Commission/Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914/LaFollete Seamen’s Act of 1915/Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1916/Adamson Act of 1916/Federal Highway Act of 1916/Keating-Owen Act of 1916

Imperialism 1870-1914

Pan-Americanism/James G. Blaine/Josiah Strong and Our Country/Alfred Mahan and The Influence of Sea Power Upon History/Venezuelan-Guiana Dispute (1895) and Richard Olney/Reconcentration Policy/ De Lome Letter (1898)/Maine (1898)/George Dewey and Manila Bay/Rough Riders and San Juan Hill/Treaty of Paris (1898)/Liliuokalani/Walter Reed/Teller Amendment (1898)/Platt Amendment (1901)/Emilio Aguinaldo/John Hay/Sphere of Influence/Open Door Policy (1899)/Boxer Rebellion (1900)/Teddy Roosevelt and Big Stick Policy/Hay-Paunceforte Treaty of 1901/Spooner Act of 1902/Hay-Bunau Treaty of 1903/Venezuelan Crisis of 1902/Roosevely Corollary of 1904/Dollar Diplomacy/Russo-Japanese War/Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)/Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907/Webb Act of 1913/Great White Fleet/Mobile Doctrine/Panama Tolls Dispute (1912)/Jones Act of 1916 (Philippines)/Virgin Islands Purchase of 1917/Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)/Vera Cruz (1914)/ABC Powers/Pancho Villa and Carranza/John J. Pershing

WWI 1914-1918

Sick Man of Europe/AEF/Selective Service/Make the World Safe for Democracy/Bond Drives/Fourteen Points/Triple Alliance 1882, The Central Powers/Triple Entente 1907, The Allies/Lusitania 1915/Arabic 1915/Sussex 1916/Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 1917/Zimmerman Note 1917/Russian Revolution of 1917/Creel Committee 1917/War Industries Board, Bernard M. Baruch/Food Administration, Herbert Hoover/Espionage Act 1917/Sedition Act 1918/Black Tom Incident/Treaty of Versailles 1919/Article 231 of the Treaty/Collective Security/Self-Determination/Reparations/Mandate System/Big Four/League of Nations 1919/Article X of the League/Henry Cabot Lodge, Reservationists/Irreconcilables/Borah, Johnson, LaFollette/Arc