Module 7 - 20th Century America and Beyond
Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4
Activity 2: Key terms, definitions and concepts
- World War I
- US Entry into WWI
- Unrestricted submarine warfare
- Lusitania
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Trench warfare
- Poison gas
- Tank
- Machine gun
- Airplane
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic
- Treaty of Versailles
- Dawes Plan
- Woodrow Wilson
- League of Nations
- US Entry into WWI
- 1920’s and 1930’s
- Herbert Hoover
- Roaring 20’s
- Consumerism
- Buying on Credit
- Prohibition
- Flappers
- National Origins Act
- Revenue Act of 1926
- Black Thursday
- Stock Market Crash of 1929
- Consumerism
- Laissez Faire Economics
- Keynesian Economics
- The Depression
- Election of 1932
- The New Deal
- Alphabet Agencies
- Social Security Act of 1935
- The Dust Bowl
- Okies
- Huey Long
- Father Coughlin
- Frances Townsend
- Social Security Act
- WWII
- Adolph Hitler
- Nazism
- Hideki Tojo
- Mussolini
- Facism
- Quarantine Act
- “Cash and Carry”
- Lend/Lease Program
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- Manhattan Project
- Robert Oppenheimer
- The Holocaust
- Auschwitz
- Nuremburg War Crimes Trial
- United Nations
- Geneva Conventions
- Japanese internment camps
- Manzanar
- “Rosie the Riveter”
- Major battles
- D-Day
- Battle of the Bulge
- Midway
- Iwo Jima
- The Fall of Berlin
- Allied leaders
- FDR
- Winston Churchill
- Charles De Gaulle
- Josef Stalin
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- Adolph Hitler
- Cold War
- Berlin
- Zones
- Sectors
- Airlift
- The Wall
- People
- Josef Stalin
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
-
Eisenhower Doctrine
- Domino Theory
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- Truman doctrine
- Containment
- Massive Retaliation
- Korean War
- General MacArthur
- Yalu River
- 38th Parallel (DMZ)
- Space Race
- Sputnik
- NASA
- Apollo Missions
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Fidel Castro
- JFK
- Perestroika
- Ronald Reagan
- Gorbachev
- Berlin
- Civil Rights Movement
- People
- John F Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Emmett Till
- Rosa Parks
- Malcolm X
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- People
- Vietnam Era
- Silent Majority
- Campus Protests
- Kent State
- My Lai Massacre
- Tet Offensive
- Lyndon Johnson
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Richard Nixon
- Cambodia
- Watergate
- China (Kissinger)
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