APUSH Unit 8

time period

1945 (Cold War) - 1980

Imperialism Developments

Independence for Philippines

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

Second Red Scare

fear of communists infiltrating US

• Federal Employee Loyalty Program

• HUAC Blacklist

• Rosenberg Execution

• McCarthyism

population density developments

suburbanization

• Levittowns

• Sun Belt

• Interstate Highway Act

• baby boom

urbanization of African American communities- Second Great Migration

• “New Deal” jobs, racism

technological innovation

television, rock & roll (Elvis), folk

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

mass culture

causes: TV, Red Scare

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

Eisenhower Legacy

Military-Industrial Complex

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

Lyndon B. Johnson legacy

Great Society (War on Poverty)

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Head Start Program

• shift of republican south

Vietnam War

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

• Nixon- Vietnamization

• draft

• War Powers Act

Nixon legacy

• NIXED Climate Change and Vietnam

• China visit

• Watergate → no one trusts government

Political Issues

Climate crisis

• Silent Spring

• EPA

• Clean Water & Clean Air Acts

Conservatism

• Moral Majority- religious right

• stop ERA

• attach Affirmative Action