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Period 8 Study Guide

Part I- Word Wall Terms- Write down 4 key words to describe each of the Vocabulary Words.

Yalta Conference / United Nations
Potsdam Conference / Containment
Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) / Warsaw Pact
Taft-Hartley Act / House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Domino Theory / Eisenhower Doctrine
Bay Of Pigs / Cuban Missile Crisis
International Monetary Fund (IMF) / Sputnik
National Defense Education Act / Collective Bargaining
Beats / Baby boom
Shelly v. Kraemer / Kerner Commission
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) / American GI Forum
Jim Crow / Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Montgomery Bus Boycott / Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) / March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voting Rights of 1965 / Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam / Black Panther Party
United Farm Workers (UFW) / American Indian Movement (AIM)
Great Society / Economic Opportunity Act
Medicare / Medicaid
The Feminine Mystique / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder / New Left
Counterculture / Tet Offensive
1968 Democratic Nation Convention / Title IX
Silent Majority / Vietnamization
My Lai / Détente
Warren Court

Part II- Key Individuals -Write down 4 key words to describe each of the key individuals.

Joseph Stalin / Dr. Benjamin Spock
George F Kennen / Cesar Chavez
Joseph McCarthy / Thurgood Marshall
Nikita Khrustchev / Rosa Parks
John Kennedy / Martin Luther King Jr
Ho Chi Minh / Malcolm X
Dwight D. Eisenhower / Stokely Carmichael
Miles Davis / Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater / Gerald Ford
Betty Friedan / Jimmy Ford
Ngo Dinh Diem / Phyllis Schlafly
Robert Kennedy / Harvey Milk
Richard M. Nixon / Billy Graham
George C Wallace / Henry Kissinger

Part III- Explain the following key topics – Include important people in your explanations.

  1. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
  1. Berlin Airlift
  1. NATO
  2. Korean War
  1. 1948 Election
  1. McCarthyism and the 2nd Red Scare
  1. The Cold War and Eisenhower
  1. The Election of 1960
  1. Role of Cuba
  1. ***Military-Industrial Complex***
  2. The Affluent America
  3. The GI Bill
  4. Beatniks - similar to the Lost Generation
  5. Short-term and long-term impacts of the Baby Boom Generation
  6. The 1950s “family” and the role of women
  7. Levittown and the FHA
  8. Interstate Highways
  9. Growth of the Sunbelt
  10. White-flight and its impacts on cities
  11. Role of tv and the Cold War in the Civil Rights Movement
  12. Executive Order 8802 - FDR - desegregated defense industries
  13. Double V Campaign
  14. Executive Order 9981 - desegregated the military
  15. Dixiecrats
  16. Thurgood Marshall
  17. Brown v. Board
  18. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  19. Voting Rights Act of 1965
  20. 24th Amendment
  21. March on Washington
  22. Black Power, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers
  23. Kerner Commission
  24. Chicano Movement and Native Americans
  25. Great Society
  26. Immigration Act of 1965
  27. Betty Friedan and NOW
  28. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  29. Counterculture
  30. Tet Offensive -> increase in domestic protests
  31. 1968 “shocks” - Tet Offensive, MLK, RFK, Democratic Convention
  32. Title IX
  33. Stonewall Riots
  34. Vietnamization
  35. Detente
  36. Warren Court
  37. OPEC and the Oil Crisis of 1973
  38. Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
  39. EPA
  40. Stagflation
  41. Deindustrialization
  42. Watergate -> Nixon’s Resignation -> Ford’s Pardon of Nixon
  43. Jimmy Carter as a “Washington Outsider”
  44. Bakke v. University of California
  45. Equal Rights Amendment and Phyllis Schlafly
  46. Roe v. Wade
  47. Harvey Milk
  48. Reasons for the rise of Evangelicalism