Mr. Kitchen
Historical American Figures

 

Important Terms, People, & Events

9/11

A

Abbie Hoffman

Abernathy, Ralph

absolute advantage

activist

Adam Smith

administration

affirmative action

Albany Movement

Alexander Hamilton

Alger Hiss

Al Gore

al Qaeda

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Amerigo Vespucci

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Young

Apartheid

Apollo 11

arms race

Armstrong, Neil

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Axis of Evil

B

Baby Boom

balance of trade

Barack Obama

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin Airlift

Betty Friedan

BIA Boarding School

Bill Clinton

Bill Gates

Bill Mauldin

bin Laden, Osama

bioterrorism

Black Panther Party

Black Power

Boricua

Boris Yeltsin

brinkmanship

Bretton Woods system of monetary management

Budget Deficit

Budget Surplus

Bush v. Gore

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

butterfly ballot

 

C

Camp David Accords

capital

capitalism

Carmichael, Stokely

Carnegie, Andrew

Castro, Fidel

César Chávez

Chávez, César

Chester Lewis

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicano

The Chicago Seven

Christopher Columbus

CIA

citizenship schools

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Clarence Thomas

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Cold War

colonialism

Columbus, Christopher

comparative advantage

command economy

communism

Condoleezza Rice

conscription

consumer

containment

Contract with America

CORE

cost

Counterculture

Cronkite, Walter

Cuban Missile Crisis

D

debt peonage

de facto segregation

deflation

de jure segregation

demand

Department of Homeland Security

desegregate

détente

Dien Bien Phu

dividend

Dockum Drug Store Sit-in

domino theory

Donald Rumsfield

dot-com

doves

Dulles, John Foster

E

Eisenhower Doctrine

Election of 1968

Ernie Pyle

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Establishment

ethics

Eugene McCarthy

executive privilege

expenditure

F

Fall of Saigon

Falwell, Jerry

Fannie Lou Hamer

Farmer, James

Fair Deal

Federal Reserve System (The Fed)

Feminism

Fidel Castro

fiscal policy

Flower Children

Frank Wills

Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal

Fred Korematsu

freedom riders

Free Speech Movement

Freedom Summer

Friedan, Betty

Friedman, Milton

Fulbright, J. Williamt

G

Gandhi, Mohandas

Gates, Bill

Geithner, Timothy

genetic engineering

Geneva Conference

genocide

George McGovern

George Wallace

George H. W. Bush

George W. Bush

GI Bill

Glasnost

globalization

global warming

Giuliani, Rudy

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gore, Al

Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky”

gross domestic product (GDP)

Gutiérrez, José Angel

H

Hamer, Fannie Lou

Hamilton, Alexander

hanging chad

hawks

Henry Kissinger

Hillary Clinton

Hiss, Alger

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh trail

Hoffman, Abbie

Hollywood Ten

HUAC

“Human Be-In”

human trafficking

Hussein, Saddam

I

ICBM

ideology

impeach

incentive

Inchon

INF Treaty

inflation

infrastructure

insourcing

integrate

internment

imperialism

invisible hand

Iran-Contra Affair

Iranian hostage crisis

Iron Curtain

IT

J

J. William Fulbright

Jackie Robinson

Jackson, Jesse

James Farmer

James Madison

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerry Falwell

Jesse Jackson

John Lewis

Jobs, Steve

John Foster Dulles

José Angel Gutiérrez

“Just say no”

K

Kai-shek, Chiang

Kennedy, Robert

Kent State

Kerner Commission

Khmer Rouge

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kim Il-Sung

King Cotton

King Jr., Martin Luther

Kissinger, Henry

Korematsu v. United States

Korematsu, Fred

Kyoto Protocol

L

La Raza Unida Party

Lech Walesa

Levittown

Lewis, Chester

Lewis, John

Little Rock Nine

lynching

M

MAD

Madison, James

Magellan, Ferdinand

Malcolm X

market economy

Marshall Plan

Marshall, Thurgood

massive retaliation

Mandela, Nelson

Manifest Destiny

Mao Zedong

Mario Savio

market

market equilibrium

Marshall, Thurgood

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mauldin, Bill

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthyism

McGovern, George

Means, Russell

Medger Evers

medium of exchange

mercantilism

Meredith, James

Mikhail Gorbachev

Milton Friedman

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

mixed economy

Mohandas Gandhi

monopoly

Montgomery bus boycott

MTV

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

My Lai massacre

N

9/11

NAACP

NASA

National Organization for Women (NOW)

national debt

national deficit

NAFTA

NATO

NCLB

Neil Armstrong

Nelson Mandela

New Federalism

New Jersey v. TLO

New Right

New York Times v. Nixon

Ngo Dinh Diem

Nikita Khrushchev

North, Oliver

O

Obama, Barack

O’Connor, Sandra Day

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Office of War Information (OWI)

offshoring

Oliver North

OPEC

open-sourcing

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Rolling Thunder

opportunity cost

Osama bin Laden

OSHA

Oslo Accords

outsourcing

P

pacification

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)

Panmunjom

Parks, Rosa

Paris Peace Accords

Peace Corps

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Pentagon Papers

Perestroika

perjury

Perot, Ross

Phyllis Schlafly

police action

Poor People’s Campaign

Pop Art

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

poverty

presidential pardon

price system

profit

proxy wars

public goods

Pyle, Ernie

Q

R

racism

Ralph Abernathy

ration book

rationing

realpolitik

Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke

Rice, Condoleezza

Robert Kennedy

Robert S. McNamara

Robinson, Jackie

Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales

Roe v. Wade

Rosa Parks

Ross Perot

Rudy Giuliani

Rumsfield, Donald

Russell Means

S

Saddam Hussein

SALT I

SALT II

salutary neglect

Sandra Day O’Connor

Saturday night massacre

Savings and Loan Crisis

Savio, Mario

scarcity (both definitions)

Schlafly, Phyllis

SCLC

scrap drive

SEATO

shuttle diplomacy

silent majority

Smith, Adam

Sputnik

SNCC

Social Gospel

Social Justice

Solidarity

Southern Strategy

Steve Jobs

Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")

Stokely Carmichael

subsidy

Summer of Love

supply

Supply side economics

T

Taliban

tariff

tenant farming

terrorism

Tet Offensive

38th Parallel

Thomas, Clarence

Thomas Jefferson

Thurgood Marshall

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Timothy Geithner

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

torture

trade

traditional economy

tragedy of the commons

Truman Doctrine

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Twenty-sixth Amendment

U

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Farm Workers (UFW)

United States v. Nixon

USA PATRIOT Act

U.S. digital TV conversion

USS Maddox

V

V-E Day

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Velvet Revolution

Vertical Consolidation

Vespucci, Amerigo

victory garden

vietcong

Vietnamization

Vietminh

VoIP

Voter Education Project

Voting Rights Act of 1965

V-J Day

W

Walesa, Lech

Wallace, George

Walter Cronkite

War Powers Act

War Refugee Board

Warsaw Pact

Watergate scandal

West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette

William Westmoreland

Wills, Frank

Westmoreland, William

Whitewater

Woodstock

workflow software

World Trade Organization (WTO)

X

X, Malcolm

Y

Yeltsin, Boris

Young, Andrew

Youth International Party (Yippies)

Z

Zedong, Mao

 

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