Exam Study Notes

Government

  • Economics

  • Society

  • Foreign Affairs

Populism

The Mandate System

Propaganda

  • Espionage and Sedition Acts: Laws enacted during wartime (specifically World War I) to suppress dissent and punish acts of espionage or sedition. These acts raised constitutional questions about free speech.

  • Committee on Public Information (CPI): An agency created during World War I to influence public opinion in support of the war effort. Used various forms of media and propaganda techniques.

Collective Security

Totalitarianism

NSC

Brown v. Board of Education

Preclearance

Silver/Gold Standard

Fordism

  • Assembly Line/Mass Production: Fordism refers to the system of mass production pioneered by Henry Ford, which involved using assembly lines and standardized parts to produce goods efficiently and at a large scale. This revolutionized manufacturing processes.

Buying on the Margin

Welfare Capitalism

Mass Consumption

Great Depression

Stock Market Crash

Hawley-Smoot Tariff/Trade War

  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff: A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression, which imposed protectionist trade policies. It led to retaliatory tariffs from other countries, exacerbating the global economic downturn and resulting in a trade war.

New Deal

Command Economy

Deficit Spending

Second Red Scare

Nationalism

Great Migration

Spanish Influenza

Red Scare

Prohibition

Eugenic Sterilization

Fundamentalist/Interdenominational

Pop Culture

  • Radio

  • Leisure Time

Fearmongering

Blacklisting

Loyalty Program

NAACP

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Little Rock Nine

Civil Rights Movement

  • Bottom Up/Top Down Approaches

Stonewall

MLK

Great Society

Black/Yellow Power

Counter Culture

Roe vs. Wade

Media Control

Zimmerman Telegram

Treaty of Versailles (reparations)

League of Nations

Brinkmanship

Cuban Missile Crisis

Détente

Space Race (Sputnik)

Berlin Wall

Proxy Wars

Vietnam War

  • Guerrilla Warfare: A form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants use military tactics like ambushes, sabotage, raids, and hit-and-run tactics.

  • Vietnamization:

    • A strategy during the Vietnam War which aimed to reduce American involvement by transferring military responsibilities to the South Vietnamese forces.