U.S History Semester Review Sheet

Old Quizlets

Reconstruction Era

13th Amendment

Slavery Gets abolished

14th Amendment

Born in U.S you are us - Greganator 2026

(Grants citizenship born in U.S)

15th Amendment

Allows colored (Men) to vote

Gilded Age

Chek previous quizlet attached

The 1920’s and 1930’s

Check Previous Quizlet attached

WWII and 1945-1964

Be able to name the three countries and their leaders that formed the Axis Powers

Axis Powers

Hitler (Germany)
Mussolini (Italy)

Tojo (Japan)

Be able to name the three countries and their leaders that formed the Allies

U.S (Roosevelt)

Britain (Churchill)

Soviet Union (Stalin)

What day was the Navy base at Pearl Harbor bombed by the Japanese

December 7th 1941

Dwight Eisenhower

-General Dwight Eisenhower was the leader of U.S. troops in Europe

-First fought Nazi in Africa

Douglas MacArthur

-General MacArthur commander of U.S. troops in the Pacific.

Extra Info:

(Filipino troops surrender to Japan in 1942, FDR orders MacArthur to evacuate to Australia, Fired by Truman during Cold War for going against him)

Baatan Death March

-A forced march of American and Filipino by Japan in 1942 during WWII

(“What infamous cruelty act was put upon Americans by the Japanese”)

Battle of Stalingrad

Turning point of war in Europe

(Soviet Union victory against Germans)

D-Day invasion

Invasion led by Einsenhower

Against Nazi’s in Germany

Allies win

(Northern France shore)

Iwo Jima

-Battle on Iwo Jima, island of Japan

-U.S allies win

(Harlon raises flag, the iconic statue in Washington we saw)

Okinawa

-Battle fought on the island of Okinawa

-U.S wins but faces many Casualties

(Desmond saves many)

Harlon Block and Desmond Doss

-Harlon a U.S. Marines who helped raise the American flag (Iwo Jima)

-Desmond Doss a Seventh-day Adventist medic who didnt carry weapon (Saved people on Okinawa)

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

-August 1945, United States drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities (Hiroshima and Nagasaki )

-Japan surrenders

The Cold War

-Rivalry between U.S and Soviet Union

(Cold War; possibility of war)

(1947–1991)

The Iron Curtain

-Term used during the Cold War to describe the division between Western Europe

(Church-Hill)

Containment Policy

A U.S. Cold War plan to stop communism from spreading by helping other countries

(Resisting Soviet Union Controls)

Berlin Airlift

-Supplies flown into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked all land routes

(Done by U.S and Allies)

Mao Zedong

-Leader of China’s Communist Party

-Made China communist

(1949)

Korean War

-A war between:

North Korea (China and the Soviet Union)

South Korea (United States and the United Nations)

-Split near the 38 parallel

-Ended in cease-fire (Nobody won Bro)

White Collar Jobs

Americans working in offices

Blue Collar

Factory workers and Laborers

G.I Bill

U.S law gives veterans money for education, jobs, and homes.

Baby boom

When the birthrate exploded from 1946-1964 (65 mil children born)

(Too much free time golly)

Conformity

-Franchises had to follow a uniform

-All stores operated the same way (All Publix work same, Walmart etc.)

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

-One of America’s earliest computers to make military calculations.

Polio

-A disease that left victims dead or paralyzed

(FDR had it :()

Jonas Salk

-A scientist that invented a injectable polio vaccine

What % of Americans owned a tv by 1957

80% of Americans

Elvis Presley

-One of the famous Rock & Roll Rockstar during the 50’s

Sputnik

First satellite set into space by Soviet Union

John Glenn

First U.S astronaut to orbit the Earth

Apollo 11

First rocket to the moon

The Feminine Mystique

-Book written by Betty Friedan

(About woman and the standard set for them, the way society set their lives up, forced to be happy)

*wasnt on study guide just in case

Environmental Issues

Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

-Book that showed dangers of pesticides

(Birds died )

Clean water act

-Cayanoga River on Fire

-Caused by pollution

-Saved by Clean water act

Three Mile Island

-Nuclear accident at a power plant

-Happened in Pennsylvania

-People become mad

Love Canal

-Chemical Pollutants got into water system

-Suburb near buffalo N.Y

(High Miscarriage rate)

Climate Change

-Scientists say the planet is getting warmer

PFAS

-Forever chemicals that have polluted our planet

(Flame resistant items, Water repellent)

Social Issues

Generation Gap

Conflict between older gen vs younger gen (1960’s and 1970’s)

(Younger sons rebel and don’t fight for war whilst older people dedicated lives for wars)

Counter Culture

-Younger people who rebelled in traditional values

-Hippies (Peace and love)

-Rebel in marriage, do drugs

Woodstock

-Three day concert

-1,000 expected to show/ half a million show up

-Biggest event in Counter Culture

Roe v. Wade

-Supreme court decision that made abortion legal

-Three months of pregnancy

No Fault Divorce

-You can mutually agree to divorce

(In the past you had to prove your spouse was unfaithful or abusive in order to divorce)

AIDS

-S**ually transmitted disease that came about in the 1980’s

Ryan White

-Kid who lived in Indianapolis and got AIDS from blood transfusion

-Died at 18

-Friended by Elton John