Unit 8 1945-1991
Category: History
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Cold War, Vietnam War, Middle Class, Civil Rights, Rising Conservatism
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Yalta ConferenceUnited NationsPotsdam ConferencecontainmentTruman DoctrineMarshall PlanBerlin AirliftNational Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)Warsaw Pactfirst Soviet bomb detonationNSC-68rise of communism in China38th parallelTaft-Hartley ActLoyalty-Security ProgramHouse Un-American CommitteeHollywood TenAlgeria HissMcCarthyismJulius and Ethel RosenbergModern RepublicanismNikita Khrushcev"New Look" Defense PolicyThird WorldCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA)VietminhDomino Theoryfall of Dien Bien PhuGeneva AccordsEisenhower DoctrineBay of PigsCuban Missile CrisisPeace CorpsNational Liberation FrontVietcongBretton WoodsWorld BankInternational Monetary Fundmilitary industrial complexSputnikNational Defense Education Actpost-war decades (50s especially)The Affluent SocietyThe Other AmericaGI BillVeterans AdministrationMattachine SocietyLevittownShelly v KraemerNational Interstate and Defense Highway ActMcdonaldsSunbeltKerner CommissionRights LiberalismBrotherhood of the Sleeping Car PortersJackie RobinsonState's Rights Democratic PartyThurgood MarshallBrown v Board of EducationCentral High School at Little RockEmmett TillRosa ParksMartin Luther King Jr.Montgomery Bus BoycottSouthern Christian Leadership ConferenceGreensboro Sit-insStudent Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeFreedom RidesLetter from Birmingham JailMedgar EversMarch on WashingtonCivil Rights ActFreedom SummerMarch from SelmaVoting Rights Act24th Amendmentsouthern whites leaning toward the Republican partyBlack NationalismUnited Farm WorkersAmerican Indian MovementWounded KneeEconomic Opportunity ActMedicareMedicaidImmigration Act of 1965Equal Pay ActThe Feminine MystiqueNational Organization for WomenGulf of Tonkin ResolutionOperation Rolling ThunderStudents for a Democratic SocietyYoung Americans for FreedomTet Offensive1968 Democratic National Convention1968 ElectionChicano Moratorium CommitteeWomen's LiberationTitle IXStonewall InnVietnamizationKent State UniversityMy Lai MassacreSALT IMilken v Bradleyrise of conservatism/ split of Democratic Partyeconomic downturnOPECEnergy CrisisEnvironmentalismSilent SpringEarth DayEnvironment Protection AgencyWatergateWar Powers ActFreedom of Information ActNixon's resignationDeregulationBakke v University of CaliforniaEqual Rights AmendmentSTOP ERARoe v WadeDobbs v JacksonHarvey Milkfamilial and societal crisisPeriods
Cold WarKorean WarTruman (D)Eisenhower (R)Vietnam WarKennedy (D)The Civil Rights MovementLyndon B Johnson (D)Richard Nixon (R)Gerald Ford (R)Jimmy Carter (D)
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