Chapter 39
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Yalta Conference
United Nations
containment
Berlin airlift
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Sunbelt
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)Chapter 41War on PovertyPeace CorpsGreat SocietyTonkin Gulf ResolutionPueblo incidentCuban Missile CrisisTet offensiveAlliance for ProgressBay of PigsMarch on WashingtonChapter 42Shah of IranHenry KissingerABM treatySALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)Kent State killingsWatergate scandalMayaguez incidentTwenty-Sixth AmendmentPentagon PapersIranian Hostage CrisisChapter 43Jimmy CarterJames WattJesse JacksonAnwar SadatGeraldine FerraroRonald ReaganSandra Day O’Conner"supply-side" economicsaffirmative actionSDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." ~Reinhold Niebuhr
Ch. 36Public Works AdministrationAgricultural Adjustment ActDust bowlForaker ActGlass-Steagall Actcourt-packing schemeNational Recovery ActSocial Security ActFather CoughlinHuey LongFrancis Townsend
Wagner Act
20th Amendment
21st AmendmentNational Labor Relations BoardCh. 37Nye committee
Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pactGood Neighbor PolicyAtlantic Charter
Lend-leaseChapter 38Thomas E. DeweyChester NimitzbracerosTehran ConferenceWar Production BoardOffice of Price AdministrationWar Labor BoardCasablanca ConferencePotsdam ConferenceSmith-Connally Act"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." ~Edward Abbey
Ch.33Collective security“normalcy”Zimmerman noteFourteen PointsLeague of NationsEspionage & Sedition ActsWar Industries BoardFood AdministrationDoughboysTreaty of VersaillesCh. 34
A. Mitchell Palmer
John T. Scopes
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Lindbergh
buying on margin
red scare
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Volstead Act
Florida land boom
Emergency Quota Act
Ch. 35
Albert B. Fall
Charles Evans Hughes
Andrew Mellon
Alfred E. Smith
Teapot Dome Scandal
McNary-Haugen Bill
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Bonus Army
"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ch.29
Alfred Thayer Mahan
James G. Blaine
Dupuy de Lome
Emiliano Aquinaldo
Richard Olney
Theodore Roosevelt
reconcentration
Pan American Conference
Rough Riders
Foraker Act
Ch.30
Spheres of influence
Boxer Rebellion
Big-stick diplomacy
Clayton-Bulwar Treaty
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Panamá Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Portsmouth Conference
Great White Fleet
Ch.31
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Hiram Johnson
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
Dollar diplomacy
Payne-Aldrich Act
Ch.32
Eugene V. Debs
Victoriano Huerta
John J. Pershing
Charles Evans Hughes
New Freedom
Underwood Tariff Bill
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Act
Federal Farm Loan Act
Adamson Act
"Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request." ~Lord Chesterfield