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1 USH Vocabulary From Closing the West 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment 1960 Nixon/Kennedy TV Debate 1968 Democratic National Convention 2000 Election Controversy 38th Parallel A Phillip Randolph Acquittal Affirmative Action Alphabet Agencies al-qaeda American Federation of Labor (AFL) Americanization Anarchy Andrew Carnegie Angel Island Armistice Arms Race Assimilation Atlantic Charter Atomic Bomb Baby Boom Bank Holiday Battle of Midway Bay of Pigs 1

2 Berlin Airlift Berlin Wall Bill Clinton Impeachment Black Tuesday Bonus Army Booker T. Washington Bootlegging Brown vs Board of Education California vs Bakke Camp David Accords Carnegie Steel Cash and Carry Policy Cesar Chavez Chinese Communist Regime Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Chinese Labor Civil Disobedience Civil Rights Act of 1964 Clayton Anti-Trust Law Closing the West Cold War Collective Bargaining Collapse of the Soviet Union Communism Conservation Movement Containment Policy 2

3 Court-Packing Bill Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Revolution D-Day DDT Delano Grape Strike Détente Domino Theory Dust Bowl Dwight D Eisenhower Earth Day Eleanor Roosevelt Ellis Island Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmentalist Movement Espionage Act Eugene V. Debs European Theater Expansionism F Scott Fitzgerald Fair Employment Act Fall of Berlin FDIC Federal Reserve System Feminism Fidel Castro Fireside Chat 3

4 Flapper Fourteen Points Franklin Roosevelt - FDR Freedom Rides Freedom Summer George W. Bush vs. Al Gore Gerald Ford Gilded Age Glasnost Great Depression Great Migration Great Plains Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Harlem Renaissance Henry Ford Holocaust Hoovervilles House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Huey Long Hull House I Have a Dream Speech Ida Tarbell Imperialism Industrial Unionism Industrial Unrest Initiative 4

5 Integrated Military Executive Order Interstate Highway Act Intervention in Afghanistan Iran-Contra Scandal Iranian Hostage Crisis Iranian Revolution Iron Curtain Irving Berlin Jackie Robinson Jane Addams Japanese-American Internment Camps Jazz Age Jim Crow Laws Jimmy Carter John D. Rockefeller Kinetograph Korean War Laissez-Faire Langston Hughes League of Nations Lend-Lease Program Letter from a Birmingham Jail Levittown Liberalism Little Rock Nine 5

6 Los Alamos Louis Armstrong Lyndon Johnson s Great Society Malcolm X Manhattan Project March on Washington, 1963 Marshall Plan Martin Luther King Jr. Mass Culture Massacre at Wounded Knee McCarthyism Meat Inspection Act Medicaid Medicare Middle East Conflict Migrant Workers Militarism Miranda Rights Monopoly Montgomery Bus Boycott Muckrakers National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Organization of Women (NOW) National Origins Acts Neutrality Acts New Deal 6

7 Nixon Opens China Nixon Resignation and Pardon North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) OPEC Osama Bin Laden Over-Farming Overproduction Pacific Theater Panama Canal Patronage Pearl Harbor Pendleton Civil Service Act Perestroika Perjury Phonograph Plessy vs Ferguson Progressive Era Prohibition Pullman Strike of 1894 Pure Food and Drug Act Rachel Carson Rationing Reaganomics Recall Red Scare Referendum 7

8 Relief, Recovery, & Reform Return to Normalcy RMS Lusitania Roaring Twenties Robert F. Kennedy Roe v Wade Ronald Reagan Roosevelt Corollary Rosa Parks Rosie the Riveter Rural Electrification Administration (REA) Saddam Hussein Samuel Gompers Satellite Nations Segregation Selective Service Act Senator Joseph McCarthy Separate But Equal September 11 th 2001 Settlement House Sherman Anti-Trust Act Silent Majority Silent Spring Sit-Ins Sitting Bull Social Darwinism Social Security Act 8

9 Socialism Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Space Race Spanish-American War Speakeasy Sphere of Influence Sputnik I Standard Oil Stock Market Crash of 1929 Stock Market Speculation Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Suburbs Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Tet Offensive The Great Gatsby The Jungle Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Edison Tin Pan Alley Transcontinental Railroad Treaty of Versailles Truman Doctrine Trust U.S.S. Maine Ultra-Conservative Barry Goldwater Under-Consumption 9

10 Unemployment Rate United Farm Workers Movement United Nations Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Upton Sinclair Urbanization USSR Vietnam War Vietnamization Voting Rights Act of 1965 Wagner Act War in Iraq War in the Philippines War Industries Board War Mobilization War on Poverty Warren Court War-Time Conversion Watergate Scandal W.E.B. DuBois Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) Women's Activism World War I Yellow Journalism Zimmerman Telegram 10

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