HUSH 2026 Semester II Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and figures from the Semester II lecture notes for HUSH 2026.

Jazz Age

1920s and 30s

Harlem Renaissance

movement of african american culture

Nativism

native born people over immigrants

Black Tuesday

massive stock market crash

Grapes of Wrath

pulitzer prize winning book about the dust bowl

Fireside Chats

FDR given radio speech to calm things down

Emergency Banking act

response to the great depression

New Deal

Alphabet soup agencies

Conscientious Objectors

someone who claims the right to refuse military service on a moral basis

Potsdam Conference

discussed how to handle Germany, the fate of Poland, and destruction of Japanese military power

Manhattan Project

the program for developing nuclear weapons

Charlie Chaplin

revolutionized the film industry

Billy Sunday

advocate for prohibition

Charles Lindbergh

completed first solo air flight

Marcus Garvey

advocate for pan-Africanism and the back to Africa movement

Klaus Fuchs

leaked atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian anarchists convicted of murder

Domino Theory

one communist revolution will lead to communist revolution in neighboring countries

Marshall Plan

rebuilding of western European countries after second world war in order to garner strength to stop the spread of communism

Dien Bien Phu

defeat of the French in Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

two US destroyers attacked by North Vietnamese

Tiger Force

out guerrilla the guerrillas

My Lai Massacre

US forces killed civilians

ARVN

south vietnamese forces

Vietcong

communist force out of south Vietnam

NLF

national liberation front - another name for Vietcong

SDS

Students for a democratic society: anti-vietnam war movement

Ho Chi Minh Trail

connected north and south Vietnam: used to infiltrate the south

Woodstock

nonviolent protest against Vietnam war

Vietnamization

policy by Nixon in attempt to end Vietnam war

Pentagon Papers

American people had been misled about actions in Vietnam

Little Rock Nine

group of black students who integrated in a high school in little rock

Freedom Riders

activists who rode buses into segregated areas

Operation Northwoods

proposed plan of false flags to justify overthrow of Fidel Castro

President Diem

first leader of Vietnam after France kicked out

Richard Holbrooke

negotiated dayton peace accords - ending war in Bosnia

Joseph McCarthy

made sensationalized claims about communist countrie

Shirley Chisolm

first black women elected to US congress

Bernadine Dohrn

leader of the weather underground

New Right

economic nationalism, secure borders, social conservatism

Vietnam Syndrome

reluctance to engage in interventions abroad

Mujahideen

one who is engaged in jihad

Oklahoma City Bombing

act of domestic terrorism, many people died

Kyoto Protocol

provided framework for reducing greenhouse emissions

Benghazi Attack (2012)

attack on US government facilities in Benghazi

Three-Mile Island

very small nuclear incident

Willie Horton ad

HW bush ad featuring Dukakis reshaping criminal justice system

Mohamed Reza Shah

last shah of Iran

Len Bias

basketball player who died of overdose

Pat Robertson

televangelist

Robert Byrd

said opposing segregation was his greatest mistake

Samuel Huntington

an idiot who wrote a book: teacher of Fukuyama

Michael Brown

shot by police officer

Jim Jones

leader of the Jonestown