20th Century Review Sheet

 

The Progressive Era, goals, who supported it, muckrakers

Progressive laws, amendments

TR: trustbusting, conservation, strikes, Roosevelt Corrollary, Sqaure Deal

Wilson: progressive income tax,

American imperialism: Alaska, Hawaii, Philippines,causes of

Spanish American War, yellow journalism, the Maine,

Panama Canal, dollar diplomacy, good neighbor policy, open door policy, Japan

Causes of WWI, why US joined, government control of economy,

Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Schenk v. U.S.

Treaty of Versailles, Wilson vs. Lodge,

Roaring 20’s, boom or prosperity?, Harding, Coolidge, stock market,

suburbs, the automobile, jazz age, the flapper, Harlem Renaissance, prohibition

nativism, red scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, Scopes trial, immigration restrictions

Causes of the Depression, Hoover, Hoovervilles, Dust Bowl,  escapism

New Deal, 3 R’s, New Deal Laws, Supreme Court Packing Plan,

Isolationism, Neutrality Acts, Quarantine Speech

Destroyers for Bases Deal, Lend-Lease Act, Munich Conference, appeasement

Atlantic Charter, Yalta Conference

Pearl Harbor, Midway, Hiroshima

Holocaust and Nuremburg Trials, Women, Blacks, Japanese in WWII, Korematsu v US

United NAtions, Cold War, NATO, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Berlin, Point Four

Korean and Vietnam War, GI Bill, Taft Hartley Act, Baby Boom, McCarthyism, Smith Act

Massive Retaliation, Eisenhower Doctrine, arms race,domino theory, SEATO, Castro

U-2 Incident, 50’s culture: suburbs, automobile, television

Civil Rights Movement: Warren Court, Brown v. Board, Little Rock Integration,

Rosa Parks, Montgoomery Bus Boycott, civil disobedience

sit-ins, march on Washington, Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 65, 24th Amend.

New Frontier, Great Society, Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall

Gulf of tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive, war protests, hawks vs. doves, draft cards

hippies, culture of 60’s, vietnamization, War Powers Act, Nixon Doctrine

Nixon visits China, USSR,  SALT Agreement

New Federalism, Burgher Court/ judicial restraint, 26th amendment

Ralph Nader Consumer Rights, Watergate/ cover-up

Ford: pardons, amnesty, oil embargo

Carter: stagflation, energy crisis, Camp David, hostage crisis

Reagan: supply-side economics, star wars, Latin American interventions, terrorism,

trade imbalance, Iran Contra Scandal, Arms reduction

Bush: Savings and Loan failures, Clarence Thomas, Rodney King incident, end of Cold War, Persian Gulf War, Panama Invasion

Clinton: health care reform, Republican “Contract with America”, Haiti, 1st Free South African elections, Dayton Accords, PLO/Israeli talks, expansion of NATO,