APUSH Final Review (XIV-XXX)

1. APUSH Final Review (XIV-XXX)

2. Things to Know

4. Need to Know • G.I. Bill • helped returning WWII veterans buy houses, go to school

5. Taft Hartley Act • made closed shops illegal

6. HUAC • House Committee on Un-American activities • investigated Communist influence

7. Alger Hiss Case • spy case

8. Rosenbergs • U.S. citizens found guilty of espionage

9. Joseph McCarthy • led anti-communist “witch hunts”

10. AFL-CIO • collection of union members • very powerful

11. Gideon v. Wainwright • right to a lawyer if can’t provide one yourself

12. Office of Economic Opportunity • part of war on poverty in Johnson’s Great Society

13. War on Poverty • see last one

14. Medicare

15. Immigration Act of 1965 • dramatically increased immigration (Asia, Latin America)

16. Woodstock • 3 day rock concert (New York)

17. hippies • counter-culture

18. EPA • Environmental Protection Agency • reduce pollution, protect environment

19. Kent State shootings • Ohio college, protest gets out of hand, National Guard kills 4 students

20. Chicago Democratic Convention (1968) • best known for huge anti-war protests • police called in, seen on tv (police riot)

21. Reaganomics • economic policies of Reagan • supply side economics (tax cuts) • “trickle down” theory

22. Clinton Twelve (Tennessee) • first integration of a school in Tenn.

23. Strom Thurmond • “Dixiecrat” • ran for president on segregation platform

24. Bull Connor • police chief of Birmingham • used fire hoses, dogs on civil rights marchers

25. George Wallace • governor of Alabama • anti-Civil Rights

26. Diane Nash • Civil Rights leader • sit ins, founder of SNCC

27. Rosa Parks • Montgomery Bus Boycott

28. MLK • nonviolence approach to civil rights

29. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • banned employment discrimination • created EEOC

30. Voting Rights Act of 1965 • helped end formal and informal barriers to african american suffrage • literacy tests

31. black power • call for African Americans to unite

32. Stokely Carmichael • coined term Black Power

33. Black Panthers • militant black political organization • urged violent resistance

34. Freedom Riders • took bus trips to protest illegal bus segregation

35. Little Rock Nine • integrated Central High School, national guard called in to prevent trouble

36. Black Muslims (Nation of Islam) • radical movement for black power • started by Elijah Muhammad • encouraged separation from whites

37. Elijah Muhammad • see last slide

38. Malcolm X • radical civil rights leader (separatist) • “by any means necessary” • later changed views

39. sit ins • attempts to integrate lunch counters

40. Montgomery Bus Boycott • Rosa Parks

41. March on Washington • huge march in support of a civil rights bill

42. Watergate • scandal involving break in at Democratic national committee headquarters

43. Richard Nixon • center of Watergate scandal

44. Woodward and Bernstein • newspaper reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal

45. “Deep Throat” • Wood/Bern’s source for Watergate

46. NOW • women’s rights organization

47. Betty Friedan • The Feminine Mystique • feminist

48. Gloria Steinem • feminist leader • founded Ms. magazine

49. Roe v. Wade • right to an abortion

50. Cesar Chavez • organized immigrant farm workers