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