Final Key Terms Study Guide U.S. History Chapters 14-26
The Great Depression Causes
The Great Depression Effect on the economy in the U.S. and throughout the world
Hoover's initial response to the Depression, his actions and the hardship suffered by Americans
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal work programs
Legacies of the New Deal
Roosevelt's steps to reform banking and finance
America’s Isolationism in the 1930s
Roosevelt’s feelings on joining the war
Policy of Appeasement
How Britain and France responded to Hitler’s Germany as it expanded through war
Hitler’s “Final Solution”
The Allies
The Axis
The Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
War Bonds
The American response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Efforts by the U.S. Government to control the economy and wartime inflation
President Truman’s and the Development of the Atomic Bomb and debates on its use against Japan.
The economic and social changes reshaped American life from a wartime to a peacetime economy.
Causes and effects of the boom in the automobile industry.
Reasons for the increase in consumerism in the 1950s
Effects of the growth of television
The Cold War
Tactics of Joseph McCarthy
The Korean War
Reasons North and South Korea are divided along the 38th parallel
Reason for the Berlin blockade also known as the Berlin Wall
What factors caused the Cuban Missile crisis and what factors ended the crisis
Who benefited most from the Great Society Plans
Immigration Act of 1965
Jim Crow Laws
Fourteenth Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Affirmative Action
Separate but equal
The War Powers Act
Main Goal of the Vietnam War
The right to choose their own life as Native Americans and the 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose.
National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Realpolitik
Nixon’s policy on Vietnamization
Nixon’s policy of New Federalism
Nixon’s policy on stagflation of 1971
Nixon’s visit to China
Carter’s achievement and failings in foreign policies
Reagan’s policy of military build-up
Reagan’s economic programs
Goals of the conservative movement in the 1980s
State of U.S. schools in the 1980s
Clinton’s stand on domestic issues