APUSH Period 6-8 Review

Decades

100

FDR Elected

New Deal 

Dust Bowl 

1930s 

200

Watergate

Pentagon Papers

Roe v. Wade

1970s

300

Stonewall Riot 

SNCC founded

My Lai Massacre 

1960s

400

Plessy v. Ferguson

Populist Party 

Spanish-American War 

1890s 

500

Bull Moose Party 

Great Migration begins 

Scheneck v. United States 

1910s

America in the World

100

Direct attack on American soil that prompted the United States to enter WWII 

Pearl Harbor 

200

International cooperative organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson after WWI, though the US failed to join 

League of Nations 

300

Overarching foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War; meant to prevent the domino effect.

Containment 

400

Failed military landing operation on the coast of Cuba in 1961 as the United States tried to overthrow communist dictator Fidel Castro 

Bay of Pigs Invasion 

500

Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Media & Culture

100

Group of investigative journalists that exposed the corruption and problems of society, leading to reform movements in the early 20th century 

Muckrakers 

200

Media technology that became widespread in the 1950s, becoming an important part of mobilizing American citizens as they watched events like the Children's March unfold 

Television 

300

1920s Black cultural movement in New York that resulted from new communities forming during the Great Migration 

Harlem Renaissance

400

Refers to FDR's use of radio to appeal directly to the American people during the Great Depression and World War II 

Fireside Chats 

500

Wrote the book "Feminine Mystique" in the 1960s that mobilized the second wave feminist movement, leading to the creation of NOW 

Betty Friedan 

Domestic Policy

100

LBJ's domestic program that sought to end poverty and discrimination and wanted to fund gov programs like Medicare and Medicaid- continuation of the "New Deal" 

The Great Society 

200

Progressive president that proposed the "Square Deal"- focusing on conservation of natural resources, corporate law, and consumer protection

Theodore Roosevelt 

300

New Deal program that provides social insurance to  retired workers age 65 or older, people with disabilities or dependents 

Social Security 

400

Federal legislation passed after the March on Selma that barred states from unfair practices like poll taxes and literacy test that infringed on people's personal liberties

Voting Rights Act 1965

500

1890s law that tried to regulate trusts. It favored businesses rather than workers and was originally used to break up labor unions.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act 

People & Groups

100

Senator that held congressional hearings of accused communists after WWII, fueling the "Red Scare" 

Joseph McCarthy 

200

Rejected Booker T Washington's accommodationist approach by demanding immediate civil rights for African Americans, believed education was foundational for racial uplift 

WEB Du Bois

300

American political organization and movement associated with the Christian right and the Republican Party in the 1980s that advocated for traditional family values

Moral Majority 

400

 The leader of the settlement house movement who founded the Hull House which provided services to the urban poor and immigrants

Jane Addams 

500

Organization of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights. They represented a growing dissatisfaction with the non-violent wing of the civil rights movement, and signaled a new direction to that movement after the legislative victories of 1964-1965

Black Panther Party