MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 8

Flashcards based on lecture notes covering key concepts and events from 1945-1980.

Levittown

A suburban development consisting of inexpensive, mass-produced homes.

Taft-Hartley Act

Aimed to restrict the power of labor unions.

Containment

A policy to prevent the spread of communism.

Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

Aimed to provide economic and military assistance to countries resisting communism.

Second Red Scare

The fear of communist subversion within the United States

McCarthyism

The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

Korean War

A war fought on the Korean Peninsula from 1950 to 1953.

HUAC

The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive activities.

Brown v. Board of Education

Ruled that state-sponsored segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Space Race

A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for achievements in space exploration.

Counterculture

A movement that rejected mainstream American values and norms during the 1960s.

Cuban Missile Crisis

A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Stagflation

A period of slow economic growth and high inflation in the 1970s.

Medicare Medicaid

Government programs enacted in the 1960s to provide healthcare to the elderly and the poor.

Federal Highway System

A system of highways created to improve mobility and facilitate transportation.

Sunbelt

The shift of the American population from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West.

Rustbelt decline

The decline of manufacturing industries in the Northeast and Midwest.

Environmental protections

Laws and regulations enacted to protect the environment.

Southern Strategy

A political strategy used by Republicans to appeal to white voters in the South.

Immigration Act of 1965

A law that significantly altered U.S. immigration policy, abolishing national origin quotas.

Vietnam War

A military conflict in Southeast Asia that involved the United States from the 1950s to 1975.

Vietnamization

The U.S. policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.

Camp David Accords

An agreement brokered by the United States between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

A congressional resolution that authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia.

NATO

A military alliance formed in 1949 by countries in North America and Europe to protect themselves from the Soviet Union.

Great Society

A set of domestic programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the goal of eliminating poverty and racial injustice.

Bay of Pigs

A failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 by a U.S.-sponsored force of Cuban exiles.

SALT

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, resulting in treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons.

Peace Corps

A volunteer program run by the United States government to provide international social and economic development assistance.

Détente

A period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Kitchen Debates

A series of debates between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 that focused on the merits of capitalism and communism.

War Powers Act

A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.

The Other America

A book by Michael Harrington that examined poverty in the United States.

Environmental Protection Agency

An agency of the U.S. government created to protect human health and the environment.

Executive Order 10730

An executive order issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to enforce school desegregation.

Stonewall Riots

A series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community in response to a police raid in 1969.

Watergate

A political scandal involving abuse of power and obstruction of justice that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

Baby boom

The rapid increase in the birth rate in the United States after World War II.

Southern Manifesto

Efforts in the Southern United States by activists to end segregation.

Civil Rights legislation

Laws enacted to prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

NOW

The National Organization for Women, an organization that advocates for women's rights.

Roe v. Wade

A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that established a woman's right to an abortion.

Jim Crow

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Iranian Hostage Crisis

A crisis involving the seizure of American diplomats in Iran in 1979.