Chapter 12—Nixon’s the One Study Guide

Henry “Scoop” Jackson

John Lindsey                                                                

George Wallace

Edward Muske

Richard Nixon                                                               

George McGovern

William Calley                                                                 

Rachael Carson                                                                 

Gerald Ford                                                                   

Moshe Dayan                                                                       

Edward Kennedy   

Kerner Cfommission                                     

Neil Armstrong

Robert F. Kennedy

Konrad Adenauer

“Détente

“counterculture”

Woodstock

Mary Jo Kopechne,

My Lai

“Vietnamization” describe how it was implemented

“Silent Majority”

“incursion”

U.S. send troops into Cambodia

Kent State

Mao Zedong

Cesar Chavez

Leonid Brezhnev                                                          

“Nationalist” China

“Rapprochement”

Election in 1972

price and wage controls

Roe v. Wade

U.S.S.S. Communism vs. Chinese Communism 

Nixon’s foreign policy with U.S.S.R- China-and Israel

Watergate scandal, the crime, the cover-up, the investigation and events that led to Nixon’s resignation

America: The Last Best Hope

America: The Last Best Hope
Chapter 11—Passing the Torch
1. MAO TSE-TUNG
2. FIDEL CASTRO
3. U.S.A. response when North Vietnam tried to unify Vietnam under communism?
4. Berlin Wall was built because
5. The Cuban Missile Crisis **
6. Time of American involvement in Vietnam?
7. Election in 1960
8. Kennedy was assassination
9. John F. Kennedy’s religion?
10. Bay of Pigs Invasion
11. Soviet Major Yuri Gagarin
12. Kennedy’s space race challenge
13. John Glenn
14. Eugene “Bull” Conner Birmingham, Alabama Police Chief
15. Martin Luther King jr **
16. The March on Washington in 1963
17. Presidential Election of 1964
18. The Great Society***
19. The Truman Doctrine
20. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
21. 1968 Presidential race
22. The 1968 “Prague Spring”
23. Nakita Khrushchev
24. George Wallace
25. Robert Kennedy
26. Everett Dirksen
27. Thurgood Marshall
28. Barry Goldwater
29. Lee Harvey Oswald
30. Why the U.S. did not succeed in Vietnam

Chapter 9 - Truman Defends the Free World

Marshall Plan                                                                                                          
"cold war "                                                         
Berlin Airlift                                                                     
The Warsaw Pact                                                     
Soviet Union "satellites"
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Mao Zedong                                                      
Chinese Civil War                                                               
Jiang Kai-Shek                                                                                   
Taiwan                                                                             
The Korean War’s four stages                                    
Hubert Humphrey                                                      
General MacArthur                                                  
Nuremberg Trials                                                                                            
Robert Jackson                                                             
"Zionists"                                                                   
Taft-Hartley Act                                                     
"red scare"                                                       
Harry S. Truman                                                                           
Ralph Bunche                                                                        
Winston Churchill                                                                 
General Lucius Clay                                                                  
Whittaker Chambers                                                              
George Marshall                                                          
Ronald Reagan                                                                    
Joseph McCarthy                                                     
Thomas Dewey                                                   
Harry Truman that led to MacArthur's dismissal.                                                  
"containment," defined and examples                           
1948 presidential election

Chapter 8 - America Victorious

1. “island hopping”
2. Douglas MacArthur
3. 5 w’s of D-Day
4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. “Operation Overlord”
6. dates for World War II
7. Harry S. Truman
8. Location of atomic bomb
9. The effect of dropping the atomic bomb
10. “kamikaze” attacks
11. How long after D-Day, does Germany surrender
12. located of German concentration camps.
13. “Holocaust”
14. The “Final Solution”
15. Auschwitz
16. Yalta conference decisions
17. Germany’s last desperate attempt to stop the Allied advance
18. The Manhattan Project
19. Tehran Conference decisions
20. Audie Murphy
21. Claus van Stauffenberg
22. George Patton
23. Thomas Dewey
24. Vyacheslav Molotov
25. Charles De Gaulle
26. Dwight Eisenhower
27.Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Tehran and Yalta Conferences
28. “the second front”
29. What are some criticisms concerning the use of atomic weapons by the U.S. in 1945?

Chapter 7 - Leading the Grand Alliance

The Atlantic Charter

Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”                          

Pearl Harbor

Norman Rockwell

Vichy France

Charles de Gaulle

Isoroku Yamamoto

Hirohito

Examples of Japanese imperialism

Douglas MacArthur:

Factors that lead to internment camps

Auschwitz                                                          

Final Solution

Wannsee Conference

 “gulag”

Harry Hopkins

oil embargo

 “Rosie the Riveter

Executive Order 9066 16.

“Wolfpacks”

 “Rape of Nanking”

Battle of Coral sea                                                                 

Battle of Midway

Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Leningrad                                               

Benjamin Davis                                                                                                                                     Reinhard Heydrich                                                         

General Winter                                                             

Johnnie Walker                                                                       

Henry Kaiser                                                                     

-Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor                                

-Hitler’s mistakes and key events and factors led the war to turn in the favor of the Allies                    -Social changes brought about by World War II

Chapter 6 - America’s Rendezvous with Destiny1939-1941

Edward R. Murrow        
London Blitz                                                                                                                                     Battle of Britain                                  

“Lend-Lease Act”                                                                                                                                      

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact                                                                              
Dunkirk                                                                                                                                                     

Erwin Rommel                                                                                                                                   

Herman Goering                                                                                                             
How did Germany start World War II?

Pacifism neutrality                                                                                                                                                           isolationism movement                                                                                    
appeasement                                                                                                
Joseph Stalin                     
Benito Mussolini and his aims                                                                                                   
Winston Churchill                                                                                                 
United States foreign policy prior to Pearl Harbor?
“Blitzkrieg”                                                                            
Joseph P. Kennedy  prior to World War II                                                                 
Luftwaffe                                                                                       
“Operation Barbarossa”                                                   
Henry Wallace                                                                                  
Wendell Wilkie                                                                                  
Neville H  Chamberlain                                                                 
Winston Churchill                                                                                
 “Anschluss”                                                                                
Albert Einstein                                 
Hitler launched his “blitzkrieg” in the spring of 1940 on?  
England’s  defense “Berlin Blitz”          
The incident in which Churchill and the French Navy                                  
Henry Stimson                                         
Alice Roosevelt                                                                                
Eddie Rickenbacker    
Joe Kennedy jr.                                                                                                                      
Henry Ford                                                                                            
Charles Lindberg                                           
C. S. Lewis                    
Thomas Dewey                               
 U.S.A. as an “arsenal of democracy?”
How did FDR support England before the U.S. entered the war?

Chapter 5 - FDR and the New Deal

Literary Digest  
Orsen Wells
Helene Meyer 
Jesse Owens
Amelia Earhart  
CCC
FDIC                                                                                                                                                                                           
1936 Olympics Swastika
Blue Eagle
Hoover and Roosevelt 1932 campaign and lame duck period
The focus of New Deal legislation 
Brain Trust
FDR’s three R’s  
The Wagner Act   
FDR and the Supreme Court                                                                                                                                           
New Deal Majority
Joe Louis
National Recovery Administration
The Wagner Act
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Twenty-first Amendment
Nuremberg Laws
National Recovery Administration
The Great Depression when? Why?  
Federal Deposit Insurance Commission
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
“fireside chats”
Will Rogers  
Scottsboro Boys
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senator Huey Long 
U.S. and Russia during the 1930’s
Hitler’s preparation for war                                                                                            
Munich Pact of 1938
The Neutrality Acts
Winston Churchill
The Hindenburg                                                                                                             
Actions taken by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Versailles Treaty during the 1930s                
American foreign policy during the 1930’s