Period 8 Vocabulary
The Cold War and Modern America
Baby Boom
GI Bill of Rights
Taft Hartley Act
National Security Act
The United Nations
The Cold War
· Why did it begin?
· “The Iron Curtain”
Containment/George Kennan
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Fair Employment Practices Committee
The Fair Deal
Dixiecrat Party/Strom Thurmond
Korean War
· The effect of “losing China”
· Pusan and Inchon
HUAC and McCarthyism
· Alger Hiss
· Whitaker Chambers
· The Rosenbergs
· Smith and McCarran Act
Dynamic Conservatism
Eisenhower Foreign Policy
· Deterrence
· Massive Retaliation
· “New Look”
· Brinkmanship
Background to Vietnam
Sputnik
· NASA
· National Defense Education Act
Eisenhower Doctrine
The U2 Summit
Fidel Castro and Cuba
Military Industrial Complex
Post WWII Consumerism
Growth of the Suburbs
· Role of the Federal Highway Act
· Levittowns
· Federal Housing Administration
· “White Flight” and “Redlining”
The Great Migration
1950s a decade of conformity?
The 50’s Housewife – rebirth of domesticity
The Sunbelt
The Beatniks (“Beats”)
· Jack Kerouac (Ion the Road)
· Allen Ginsberg
Growth of Rock and Roll/Elvis
Brown vs. Board of Education
· Little Rock 9
Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK Jr. / SCLC
The New Frontier (JFK)
Election of 1960
· Role of TV/debates
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Warren Court
· Gideon v. Wainwright
· Escobedo v. Illinois
· Miranda v. Arizona
Greensboro sit-in
SNCC, SCLC, CORE
· Goals
· Tactics
“Freedom Riders”
· JFK’s role
March on Washington
· “I have a Dream” Speech
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
· “Hot-line”
· How it was resolved
JFK’s role in Vietnam
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Michael Harrington’s The Other America
The Great Society
· Job Corps
· Head start
· Medicare and Medicaid
· Housing and Urban Development (p. 1324)
· Immigration and Nationality services Act (p. 1324)
Barry Goldwater and Conservatism
Selma to Montgomery March
· LBJ’s “We shall overcome” speech
· Voting Rights Act
Watts Riot
Black Power (be able to differentiate from Civil Rights movement)
· Stokely Carmichael and the “new” SNCC
· Huey Newton/Black Panthers
· Malcolm X/Black Muslims
· Their goals and tactics
LBJ and Vietnam
· Tonkin Gulf Resolution
· Operation Rolling Thunder
· “Domino theory” Role of television – “living room war”
· Tet Offensive
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The New Left
1968 Democratic Convention (Chicago)
Counterculture
· Woodstock
Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique
· “3rd Wave Feminism”
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Roe v. Wade
The Sexual Revolution
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Stonewall Riots
“The Silent Majority” (Nixon)
Vietnamization
“Cambodian incursion”
My Lai Massacre
Kent State Incident
Pentagon Papers
· “Credibility Gap” (not in book)
Nixon’s “southern strategy”
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
“Stagflation”
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
· Nixon on the New Deal/expansion of federal government
Détente and SALT I
Shuttle Diplomacy
Watergate
· Woodward and Burstein
· CREEP
· US v. Richard M. Nixon
Gerald Ford
· Nixon Pardon
· SALT II
Camp David Accords
Carter and the Economy
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Moral Majority
· Phyllis Schlafly
Some Period 9 terms
Reaganomics (supply side/trickle down)
· Economic Recovery Tax Act
Star Wars
Foreign Interventions
· Central America
· Middle East
· Grenada
Iran-Contra Affair
AIDS
Nicaragua/Sandanistas
Mikhail Gorbachev
End of the Cold War
· “Tear down this wall” speech