APUSH/PERIOD 6: EXTRA CREDIT TERMS & CONCEPTS [CHAPTER 25] FOR 19 EXTRA CREDIT

POINTS

DIRECTIONS. This is an OPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY to earn XCREDIT POINTS (1/2-PT for each term) for the VOCABULARY . You will find the VOCABULARY list below. For the terms & concepts to remember, you must provide a basic definition (or description) in 1-2 narrative sentences for each term & concept. THEY MUST NOT BE VAGUE. YOU MAY HAVE TO RESEARCH THE TERM [as your textbook may not have it, or fully address it). In addition, you must provide the historical application (1-2 narrative sentences) where this term historically applied (being specific to include either an example, or an actual situation where it was applied). For each proper name (e.g. John Smith), or proper group name (Toltec) which may appear, explain why this individual/group was famous (for example, who they are [were], their significance, achievement or contribution, etc.) . Please remember that XCREDIT opportunities cannot be turned in late, nor will you receive the extra credit for a partial list. This is really an ALL OR NOTHING opportunity. DON’T FORGET TO ANNOTATE YOUR NAME, PERIOD, DATE AND TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT, SO NOT TO LOSE POINTS

EXAMPLE EXPECTATION

Caravel

DEFINITION: a caravel is a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.

APPLICATION: Christopher Columbus’s ships the Nina and Pinta were thought historically to be caravels as they sailed to the New World

CHAPTER 25 TERMS & CONCEPTS

1. John Foster Dulles 2. “Massive Retaliation” 3. CIA 4. Dien Bien Phu 5. Ho Chi Minh 6. SEATO 7. Formosa [Taiwan] 8. Nikita Khrushchev 9. Suez Crisis, 1955-56 10. Sputnik 11. NASA 12. National Defense Education Act [NDEA] 13. Spirit of Geneva 14. “We Will Bury You” Speech 15. Francis Gary Powers 16. “missile gap” 17. JFK v. Richard Nixon TV Debates 18. Interstate Highway System 19. Elijah Muhammad

20. Norman Vincent Peale 21. Billy Graham 22. Richard Cardinal Cushing 23. Sam Phillips 24. Alfred Kinsey 25. Civil Rights Movement 26. Brown v. Board of Education 27. Thurgood Marshall 28. Rosa Parks 29. Southern Christian Leadership Connference 30. Martin Luther King Jr. 31. Greensboro Four [Sit-in] 32. Freedom Rides 33. Congress of Racial Equality 34. Chief “Bull” Connor 35. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 36. “I Have a Dream Speech” 37. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 38. Malcolm X