APUSH Unit 8

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time period

1945 (Cold War) - 1980

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Imperialism Developments

Independence for Philippines

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Cold War Developments

  • Truman Doctrine

  • JFK- Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis

  • LBJ- Non-Proliferation Treaty (don’t spread nuclear knowledge), enter Vietnam

  • Nixon- exit Vietnam, SALT 1 Treaty (freeze producing more missiles), China visit, detente, escalation

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Second Red Scare

fear of communists infiltrating US

  • Federal Employee Loyalty Program

  • HUAC Blacklist

  • Rosenberg Execution

  • McCarthyism

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population density developments

suburbanization

  • Levittowns

  • Sun Belt

  • Interstate Highway Act

  • baby boom

urbanization of African American communities- Second Great Migration

  • “New Deal” jobs, racism

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technological innovation

television, rock & roll (Elvis), folk

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the rise of teens

  • Elvis

  • post-war prosperity

  • Kent State Massacre- example of young people getting involved in politics, in this case it was a protest against Vietnam War that turned violent

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mass culture

causes: TV, Red Scare

effects: Beats- Catcher in the Rye (against societal norms)

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Eisenhower Legacy

Military-Industrial Complex

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Civil Rights Movement Developments

African Americans

  • Civil Rights Acts outlaw discrimination

  • Voting Rights Act

  • peaceful vs. less peaceful (Black Panthers- not avoiding

Other groups

  • Feminine Mistique

  • Stonewall Riots

  • Alcatraz Occupation

  • Caesar Chavez

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Lyndon B. Johnson legacy

Great Society (War on Poverty)

  • Economic Opportunity Act

  • Head Start Program

  • shift of republican south

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Vietnam War

  • LBJ- Golf of Tonkin, credibility gap, Tet Offensive

  • Nixon- Vietnamization

  • draft

  • War Powers Act

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Nixon legacy

  • NIXED Climate Change and Vietnam

  • China visit

  • Watergate → no one trusts government

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Political Issues

Climate crisis

  • Silent Spring

  • EPA

  • Clean Water & Clean Air Acts

Conservatism

  • Moral Majority- religious right

  • stop ERA

  • attach Affirmative Action