I. Module 5
a. Cause of WWII
i. Treaty of:versallies
ii. Rise of Totalitarian Leaders: Benito mussolini
iii. The Great:
iv. Failure of the:
v. Immediate cause of WWII:
vi. Immediate cause for the US entering the war:
b. American reaction to WWII initially:
i. Nye Committee:
ii. 1st and 2nd Neutrality Acts:
1. How was the 3rd different?
iii. Cash and Carry
iv. Japan’s invasion of China:
v. Lend Lease Act:
c. Atlantic Charter:
i. Later becomes foundation for “A Declaration of the United Nations”
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d. Key Events/Battles:
i. Tehran Conference:
1. Define “Big 3”
ii. Normandy Invasion:
iii. Yalta Conference:
iv. Bataan Death March
v. Battle of Coral Sea
vi. Battle of Midway
vii. Island Hopping:
viii. Holocaust (Aka the “Final Solution”):
ix. Home front, define:
x. Atomic Bomb:
xi. V-E Day:
xii. V-J Day:
xiii. Potsdam Declaration:
e. Minorities Contribute to WWII
i. Women
ii. African Americans
iii. Hispanic Americans
iv. Native Americans
f. Other topics:
i. Japanese American Internment (including Supreme Court Case)
ii. Battle of Iwo Jima
iii. Battle of the Bulge

II. Module 6: Cold War
a. 1950’s were a time of and .
i. American economy experienced a .
ii. GI Bill:
iii. Baby Boom:
iv. Women experienced:
v. Feminine Mystique
vi. African Americans thought:
b. Nuremberg Trials:
c. United Nations:
i. Dumbarton Oaks Conference:
ii. Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
d. Cold War (Define)
i. Potsdam Conference:
ii. Containment:
iii. Iron Curtain:
iv. Arms Race:
v. MAD:
vi. Space Race:
vii. Truman Doctrine:
viii. Marshall Plan:
e. More Cold War
i. Berlin Blockade and Airlift
ii. NATO:
iii. Warsaw Pact:
iv. Cuban Missile Crisis:
v. Détente:
f. Second Red Scare
i. McCarthyism:
ii. HUAC:
iii. Blacklisted:
iv. Federal Employee Loyalty Program
v. McCarran Act:
g. Korean War
i. North Korea: ; South Korea:
ii. 38th parallel:
iii. US and UN supported:
1. Containment and domino theory:
2. Truman v. MacArthur:
3. Stalemate:
a. Cease-Fire:
b. Demilitarized Zone:
c. Armistice:
h. Vietnam
i. Colonial Rule:
1. US Supported:
ii. Gained independence through the:
iii. North: ; South:
iv. Advisors:
v. President Johnson:
vi. Gulf of Tonkin:
1. Resolution:
2. Hawks v. Doves:
3. Vietnamization:
4. Paris Peace Accords:
5. By 1975:
i. Disillusionment:
i. Credibility Gap:
ii. Cambodia Bombings:
iii. Pentagon Papers:
iv. 26th Amendment:
v. War Powers Act:
vi. Watergate:

III. Module 7
a. Civil Rights Movement
i. Brown v. Board of Education:
ii. Civil Disobedience:
iii. Social Activism:
iv. Martin Luther King, JR:
v. Malcolm X:
vi. Key Events
1. Montgomery Bus Boycott:
2. Little Rock 9:
3. Greensboro Sit-ins:
4. Freedom Rides:
5. March on Washington:
6. Freedom Summer
7. Selma to Montgomery March:
vii. Black Nationalist Movement:
1. Nation of Islam:
2. Black Panthers:
3. Watts Riots:
viii. Impact of the CRM
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964:
2. Voting Rights Act:
3. 24th Amendment:
4. Thurgood Marshall:
b. Minority Rights
i. Women:
ii. Native Americans:
iii. Hispanic Americans:
c. Supreme Court Decisions:
i. Plessy v. Ferguson:
ii. Brown v. Board of Education:
iii. Roe v. Wade:
iv. Gideon v. Wainwright:
v. Regents University of CA v. Bakke:

IV. Module 8
a. 1970’s
i. Globalization:
ii. Inflation:
iii. Iran Hostage Crisis:
iv. OPEC Embargo:
v. Apartheid
b. President Johnson’s Great Society (take notes on your own on the various programs)
c. 1980s
i. Reagan Doctrine:
ii. Glasnost:
iii. Perestroika:
iv. Deregulation:
v. Nicaragua:
vi. Lebanon:
vii. Famine in African:
viii. Chernobyl:
ix. Mariel: