US History Study Guide Version 2

 Final Key Terms Study Guide U.S. History Chapters 14-26 

1. The Great Depression Causes

2. The Great Depression Effect on the economy in the U.S. and throughout the world

3. Hoover's initial response to the Depression, his actions and the hardship suffered by Americans

4. The Dust Bowl

5. The New Deal work programs

6. Legacies of the New Deal

7. Roosevelt's steps to reform banking and finance

8. America’s Isolationism in the 1930s

9. Roosevelt’s feelings on joining the war

10. Policy of Appeasement

11. How Britain and France responded to Hitler’s Germany as it expanded through war

12. Hitler’s “Final Solution”

13. The Allies

14. The Axis

15. The Battle of the Bulge

16. D-Day

17. War Bonds

18. The American response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

19. Efforts by the U.S. Government to control the economy and wartime inflation

20. President Truman’s and the Development of the Atomic Bomb and debates on its use against Japan.

21. The economic and social changes reshaped American life from a wartime to a peacetime economy.

22. Causes and effects of the boom in the automobile industry.

23. Reasons for the increase in consumerism in the 1950s

24. Effects of the growth of television

25. The Cold War

26. Tactics of Joseph McCarthy

27. The Korean War

28. Reasons North and South Korea are divided along the 38th parallel

29. Reason for the Berlin blockade also known as the Berlin Wall

30. What factors caused the Cuban Missile crisis and what factors ended the crisis

31. Who benefited most from the Great Society Plans

32. Immigration Act of 1965

33. Jim Crow Laws

34. Fourteenth Amendment

35. Plessy v. Ferguson

36. Brown v. Board of Education

37. Affirmative Action

38. Separate but equal

39. The War Powers Act

40. Main Goal of the Vietnam War

41. The right to choose their own life as Native Americans and the 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose.

42. National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)

43. Civil Rights Act of 1964

44. Realpolitik

45. Nixon’s policy on Vietnamization

46. Nixon’s policy of New Federalism 

47. Nixon’s policy on stagflation of 1971

48. Nixon’s visit to China

49. Carter’s achievement and failings in foreign policies  

50. Reagan’s policy of military build-up

51. Reagan’s economic programs 

52. Goals of the conservative movement in the 1980s

53. State of U.S. schools in the 1980s

54. Clinton’s stand on domestic issues