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APUSH Final Review (XIV-XXX)
Things to Know
Need to Know
G.I. Bill helped returning WWII veterans buy houses, go to
school
Taft Hartley Act made closed shops illegal
HUAC House Committee on Un-American activities investigated Communist influence
Alger Hiss Case spy case
Rosenbergs U.S. citizens found guilty of espionage
Joseph McCarthy led anti-communist “witch hunts”
AFL-CIO collection of union members very powerful
Gideon v. Wainwright right to a lawyer if can’t provide one yourself
Office of Economic Opportunity part of war on poverty in Johnson’s Great Society
War on Poverty see last one
Medicare
Immigration Act of 1965 dramatically increased immigration (Asia, Latin
America)
Woodstock 3 day rock concert (New York)
hippies counter-culture
EPA Environmental Protection Agency reduce pollution, protect environment
Kent State shootings Ohio college, protest gets out of hand, National Guard
kills 4 students
Chicago Democratic Convention (1968) best known for huge anti-war protests police called in, seen on tv (police riot)
Reaganomics economic policies of Reagan supply side economics (tax cuts) “trickle down” theory
Clinton Twelve (Tennessee) first integration of a school in Tenn.
Strom Thurmond “Dixiecrat” ran for president on segregation platform
Bull Connor police chief of Birmingham used fire hoses, dogs on civil rights marchers
George Wallace governor of Alabama anti-Civil Rights
Diane Nash Civil Rights leader sit ins, founder of SNCC
Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK nonviolence approach to civil rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned employment discrimination created EEOC
Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped end formal and informal barriers to african
american suffrage literacy tests
black power call for African Americans to unite
Stokely Carmichael coined term Black Power
Black Panthers militant black political organization urged violent resistance
Freedom Riders took bus trips to protest illegal bus segregation
Little Rock Nine integrated Central High School, national guard called
in to prevent trouble
Black Muslims (Nation of Islam) radical movement for black power started by Elijah Muhammad encouraged separation from whites
Elijah Muhammad see last slide
Malcolm X radical civil rights leader (separatist)
“by any means necessary” later changed views
sit ins attempts to integrate lunch counters
Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks
March on Washington huge march in support of a civil rights bill
Watergate scandal involving break in at Democratic national
committee headquarters
Richard Nixon center of Watergate scandal
Woodward and Bernstein newspaper reporters who uncovered the Watergate
scandal
“Deep Throat” Wood/Bern’s source for Watergate
NOW women’s rights organization
Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique feminist
Gloria Steinem feminist leader founded Ms. magazine
Roe v. Wade right to an abortion
Cesar Chavez organized immigrant farm workers
United Farm Workers organization started by Chavez
Desert Storm first Gulf War
Colin Powell military general in Gulf War first African-American Secretary of State
Norman Schwarzkopf general during Gulf War
Bill Clinton self explanatory,
globalization trend toward increased cultural and economic
connections b/t people, organizations, and businesses throughout the world
NAFTA trade agreement b/t U.S., Canada, Mexico
Bill Gates Microsoft
Steve Jobs Auburn
Sam Walton Wal-Mart
Michael Dell Dell Computers
Ray Kroc
Jeff Zebos Amazon
Donald Trump real estate
Important Definitions
XV. Women’s Issues
XXVI. Native Americans
XXVII. Immigration
XVIII. Labor
XXIX. Supreme Court
XXX. Important Writings