AP US History Unit 8 Assignment Sheet

Increasing Prosperity and Global Responsibilities after WWII (1945 – 1980) Chapters: 26, 27, 28, 29 pgs. 797 – 914

Yalta Conference Ignored

Iron Curtain
George F. Kennan H
Containment
Atomic Energy Commission
Truman Doctrine
National Security Act
Central Intelligence Agency
Marshall Plan
Potsdam Agreement
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
George Macarthur
Mao Zedong
People’s Republic of China
Anne Hillard
H-bomb
National Security paper 68
Cold War
Korean War
38th Parallel
United Nations (UN)
Yula River
Heartbreak Ridge/ Pork Chop Hill
Employment Act of 1946
Council of Academic Advisors
Office of Price Administration
Election of 1948
Taft – Harley Act
“Dixiecrat”
Fair Deal
HUAC
Second Red Scare
Dennis vs. US
Alger Hiss and Whitaker Chambers
Rosenburg Case
Joseph R. McCarthy
McCarthyism
McCarren International Securities Act
Election of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Modern Republicanism
Interstate Highway Act
Brinkmanship (John Foster Dullies)
CIA Covert Action
Third World
Suez Canal Crsis
Eisenhower Doctrine
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khruschchev
Military Industrial Complex
“Bring the Boys Home”
GI Bill
Baby Boom
Affluent Society
New Industrial Boom
Scientific Spending
Defense expenditures
ENIAC
Silent Spring / Blue collar blues
Suburbanism
Federal Housing Administration
Sunbelt
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Domesticity
Billy Graham (religious + education revival
Television
Sputnik
NASA
Elvis Presley
Beats
The Other America
Bracero program
Presidential Committee on Civil Rights
Jim Crow Court
Earl Warren
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
Brown vs. Board of Education
Freedom Riders
SNCC
Southern Manifesto
JFK
Kennedy- Nixon TV Debates
Election of 1960
“Green Berets”
Kennedy’s Domestic Legacy
Peace Corp
Bay of Pigs invasion
Berlin Wall
IRBM’s
Détente
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nov. 22, 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lee Harvey Oswald
Nuclear Test Ban
Birmingham, Alabama
Governor George Wallace
March on Washington 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opp. Comm.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Pro
MFDP
Voting Rights Act
Watts Riots
Kerner Commission
Black Power
Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
Affirmative action
National Council on Indian Opportunity
American Indian Movement
Indian Self Determination Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Caesar Chavez
Chicano and Chicana
Immigration Reform and Con Act 1986
Asian American Political
Black Panther Party
SCLC
Alliance / War on Poverty
Great Society
Election of 1964
Barry Goldwater
89th Congress
Medicare and Medicaid
Warren Court
Miranda v. Arizona
Ho Chi Minh
Domino Theory
Ngo Dinh Diem
National Liberation Front
Vietnam Conflict
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
“Operation Rolling Thunder”
“Hawks and Doves”
Eugene McCarthy
Tet Offensive
Black Panther Party
Robert Kennedy
Nixon’s Vietnam
Vietnamization
Paris Accords
Students for a Democratic Society
Berkley Free Speech Movement
Kent State and Jackson State
hippies
counter culture
Timothy Leary
Woodstock
Sexual Revolution
Roe v. Wade
National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
Equal Rights Amendment
The Phyllis Schlafly Report
Gay Liberation
Environmental Protection Agency
Three Mile Island
Yuppie
James Earl Ray
Sirhan Sirhan
Election of 1968
yippies
Republican Majority
Neil Armstrong
OPEC
“the plumbers”
Pentagon Papers
Southern Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Nixon visits China
SALT I
realpolitik
Election of 1972
George Wallace
Watergate
“Deep Throat”
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Gas Crisis
Stagflation
Alaska Lands Act (911)
SALT II (911)
Camp David Accords (911)