Finals+Review

New Directions - Carter v. Reagan
 * Chapter 35:**

Changing Economy

Troubles Abroad
 * Chapter 36:**

Reagan's Successes and Failures

Relations with Soviet Union

Problems for "Teflon" President

End of Reagan Years

End of the Cold War

A Dangerous World / First Persian Gulf

Clinton Presidency

George W. Bush Presidency

War on Terror

War in Iraq

Railroads and big business
 * Chapter 16:**

Businesses compete (and also limit competition)

Rock Oil lights up the world

City good for Country Customers (and the retail revolution)

Things by the millions (mass production in late 1800s U.S.)

Labor begins to organize

Political parties in the balance
 * Chapter 18:**

The "Money" Question

Democrats come and go

Interstate Commerce Act 1887

Sherman Antitrust Act

Farmer's Revolt

Granger Laws

Populist Party formed

Gold vs. Silver

Election 1896

U.S. Looking outward
 * Chapter 19:**

Expanding on the Seas

War with Spain

Handling of Far East

Main Idea = To Build Empire or Not

Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
 * Chapter 20:**

Middle-class Reformers Cities:

Government:

Direct Democracy and women's suffrage

Muckrakers

Taft in the White House

Elections 1910 & 1912

Woodrow Wilson & New Freedom

Seeking a World Role Roosevelt Corollary

Dollar Diplomacy

Spark ignites Europes
 * Chapter 21:**

German attacks with U-boat

Trade with Allies

U.S. Goes to War

War on Western Front

Home Front

Fourteen Points

Versailles Treaty

Treaty voted down

Postwar reaction and fears
 * Chapter 22:**

Search for the Good Old Days Harding

Harding Scandals

Coolidge - business v. farms

Life in Jazz Age Roaring 20s

Roaring factories

Economic crash Stock crash
 * Chapter 23:**

Economic factors leading to Depression

Hoover reaction

Election 1932

FDR
 * Chapter 24**

First 100 Days

Actions: Banking and securities

Land and agriculture

Jobs and work relief

Trouble with Supreme Court

Changes to Presidency due to FDR

New Deal - an appraisal

Problems on Farm
 * Chapter 25**

Problems of Black Americans

Harlem Renaissance

New Deal and Women

Struggles of Labor

Rise of Hitler
 * Chapter 26:**

FDR & Neutrality

Relations with Japan

Hitler on march

Battlefield is everywhere

Destroyer deal

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Homefront Women
 * Chapter 27**

Racial segregation

Japanese American internment

Early War - Battle Atlantic

North Africa

Battle in Pacific

Victory in Europe Italy

D-Day

Victory after Battle Bulge

Failure to take Berlin

War in Pacific Island Hopping

Atomic Bomb

UN
 * Cold War**

Greek Civil War

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Blockade

NATO

Red Scare in the U.S.

Korean War

Foreign Relations under Eisenhower / Dulles

McCarthyism

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam

Nixon Trip to China

Brown v. Board of eduction
 * Civil Rights**

Government intervention Little Rock

Rosa Parks

Nonviolence and Martin Luther King

Civil Rights Laws

Black revolt (790)

New Civil Rights Law & March on Washington (791)

Voting Rights Act

Selma to Montgomery March

Black Power

Growing Frustrations

New Frontier (788) Debates and Election 1960
 * 1960s**

Economic growth

Poverty

Kennedy years: appraisal

Great Society Medical insurance

Flood of bills

LBJ and administration

Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Military Buildup

Tet Offensive

My Lai Massacre

LBJ loses support

"Vietnamization" of war....

Laos & Cambodia

Unrest at home grows