APUSH Period 8

Soviet Union

Security Council

Satellite States

Iron Curtain

George F. Kennan

Containment Policy

Truman Doctrine

George C. Marshall

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Warsaw Pact

National Security Act

Douglas MacArthur (Japan)

Mao Zedong

Korean War

38th Parallel

Stalemate

Brinkmanship

“Spirit of Geneva”

Nikita Khrushchev

Sputnik

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

U-2 Incident

Cuba

Fidel Castro

military-industrial complex

Berlin Wall

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

John F Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Henry Kissinger

Détente

Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I)

Soviet-Afghan War

McCarran Internal Security Act

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Alger Hiss

Julius Rosenberg

Joseph R. McCarthy

McCarthyism

Second Red Scare

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (or GI Bill of Rights)

Baby Boom

Levittown

Sun Belt

22nd Amendment

Fair Deal

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Interstate Highway Act

New Frontier

Great Society

New Federalism

Richard Nixon

Stagflation

Rock and roll

Beatniks

Kennedy Assassination

Warren Commission

Committee on Civil Rights

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Jackie Robinson

Brown v. Board of Education

Thurgood Marshall

Earl Warren

desegregation

Little Rock Nine

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Emmitt Till

Martin Luther King Jr. 

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Covert action

Suez Canal

Eisenhower Doctrine

Organization of Petroleum Exporting (OPEC)

Yom Kippur War

Oil Embargo

Camp David Accords

Iran Hostage Crisis

The Peace Corps

Panama Canal

Vietnam War

Domino theory

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Credibility gap

Hawks vs Doves

Tet Offensive

Vietnamization

Kent State Massacre

My Lai Massacre

Pentagon Papers

Paris Accords

War Powers Act

Fall of Saigon

Ho Chi Minh

Viet Cong

War on Poverty

Department of Transportation (DOT)

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Ralph Nader

Silent Spring Rachel Carson

Immigration Act of 1965

James Meredith

George Wallace

“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

March on Washington

“I Have a Dream” Speech

Civil Rights Act of 1964

24th Amendment

Freedom Riders

March to Montgomery

Malcolm X

Black Panthers

Stokely Carmichael

Watts Riot

The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Title IX

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Cesar Chavez

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975

Gideon v Wainwright

Miranda v. Arizona

Baker v. Carr

Yates v. United States

The New Left

Counterculture

Woodstock

Sexual Revolution

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Clean Air Act

Southern Strategy

Watergate Scandal

impeachment

Gerald R Ford

National malaise

Roe v. Wade

Televangelists

Moral Majority

Think Tanks