US History

# The Cold War

* The Cold War was an ideological contest between the Western democracies (especially the United States) and the Communist countries. At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union established “friendly” governments in the Eastern European countries it occupied behind an iron c

Chapter 27 - The Cold War and the Fair Deal (1945-1952)

* In the North, however, the need to supply the massive Union armies with shoes, boots, uniforms, weapons, supplies, food, wagons, and railroads ushered in an era of unprecedented industrial development.
* During the war years, the number of manufacturing companies in the United States almost double

Chapter 17 - Business and Labor in the Industrial Era (1860-1900)

# A “New Era” of Consumption

* The American economy grew at its fastest rate in history during the 1920s, led by an explosion in mass production and sales of new consumer goods. Innovations in production, advertising, and financing, and a jump in the use of electricity, enabled and encouraged milli

Chapter 23 - A Clash of Cultures (1920-1929)

Chemistry

# **1.1 - Elements, Compounds, Atoms and Ions**

* Matter - anything that has mass and takes up space.
* Element - Matter in its simplest form
* Atom - the smallest form of an element that still displays particular properties.
* Ion - An atom with a negative or positive charge.
* Cation - ion with p

Unit 1 - Chemistry of Life


# Youth Revolt

* Civil rights activism inspired a heightened interest in social causes during the sixties, especially among the young. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) embodied the New Left ideology, and their ideas and tactics spread to many other campuses. By 1970, a distinctive countercul

Chapter 30 - Rebellion and Reaction (the 1960s and 1970)


Health

# **4.1 - Cell Communication**

* The ability of a cell to communicate with its environment and with itself - key to maintaining homeostasis and surviving.
* Survival depends on receiving and processing information from outside the cell—information about changing environmental conditionals, availabi

Unit 4 - Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

## Reconstruction Marked the End of the Civil War and the Rebuilding of America

* Racism was still prevalent although 4 million enslaved Americans were free
* Southern Economy was destroyed
* Ex-confederates were defiant and bitter but freed slaves felt the opposite
* Few willingly freed their slav

Chapter 16 - The Era of Reconstruction (1865-1877)

World History

# Fascism and the Start of the War

* In Italy, Benito Mussolini assumed control by promising law and order. Adolf Hitler rearmed Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. By March 1939, Nazi Germany had annexed Austria and seized Czechoslovakia. Hitler then invaded Poland with the blitzkrieg

Chapter 26 - The Second World War (1933-1945)

# The Carter Presidency

* While Jimmy Carter had some notable achievements, such as the Camp David Accords, his administration suffered from legislative inexperience, a deepening economic recession, soaring inflation, and the Iranian hostage crisis. His sermonizing about the need for Americans to l

Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival (1977-1990)


Biology

# **3.1 - Introduction**

* Two stages of photosynthesis: the light-dependent reactions, the light-independent reactions (the dark reactions).
* The simplified equation of photosynthesis is:

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Unit 3 - Cellular Energetic

* After the Civil War, a mood of isolationism—a desire to stay out of conflicts elsewhere in the world—dominated American public opinion. In The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), historian Brooks Adams argued that for the United States to survive and prosper, it had to keep pushing beyond its bo

Chapter 20 - Seizing an American Empire (1865-1913)

# The Reactionary Twenties

* With the end of the Great War, a renewed surge of immigration led to a wave of nativism. To Americans who feared that many immigrants were political radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti case confirmed their suspicions. Nativists persuaded Congress to restrict future immigra

Chapter 24 - The Reactionary Twenties

# Kennedy’s New Frontier

* President John F. Kennedy promised a “New Frontier” in 1961, but many of his domestic policies stalled in Congress. The Bay of Pigs fiasco led the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, to test American resolve by erecting the Berlin Wall and installing nuclear-armed missiles

Chapter 29 - A New Frontier and a Great Society (1960-1968)

Environmental Science

# **8.1: Behavioral Ecology**

* Behavioral ecology and ethology both involve the study of animal behavior.
* **Behavioral ecology -** focuses on the interaction between animals and their environments, and usually includes an evolutionary perspective.
* **Ethology** a narrower field, focused particu

Unit 8 - Ecology

# **7.1 - Definition of Evolution**

* **Evolution** descent with modification.
* **Descent** can happen only when one group of organisms gives rise to another.
* Evolution describes change in allele frequencies in populations over time.
* When one generation of organisms reproduces and creates the 

Unit 7 - Evolution

* Theodore Roosevelt’s emergence as a national political leader coincided with the onset of what historians have labeled the Progressive Era (1890–1920), an extraordinary period of social activism and political innovation during which compelling public issues forced profound changes in the role of g

Chapter 21 - The Progressive Era


* The period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century was an era noted for the widening social and economic gap between the powerful and the powerless, the haves and have-nots. It was sardonically labeled the Gilded Age for its greed and vulgarity, marked by conspicuou

Chapter 19 - Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt (1865-1900) 

# **5.1 - Haploid Versus Diploid Organisms**

* **Haploid**(*n*) organism - Has only one copy of each type of chromosome. In humans, this refers to a cell that has one copy of each type of homologous chromosome.
* \*\*Diploid (\*\*2*n*) organism - Has two copies of each type of chromosome. In humans

Unit 5 - Heredity


* The South had to be rebuilt, while the sparsely settled territories and states west of the Mississippi River were ripe for the development of farms, businesses, railroads, and towns. By 1900, a New West and a New South had emerged, and eleven new states had been created out of the western territor

Chapter 18 - The New South and the New West (1865-1900)

Statistics

# **2.1 - Introduction**

* Cell - basic unit of life, discovered in the 17th century by Robert Hooke.
* Two major divisions - prokaryotic and eukaryotic.

# **2.2 - Types of Cells**

* **Prokaryotic cell - Simple cell; has no nucleus, no membrane bound organelles. Eg: bacteria. Only found in the ki