MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 8

Key Concepts & Events: 1945-1980

Key Concepts

• 8.1: US Global Leadership: The United States responded to an uncertain postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.

• 8.2: Civil Rights & Government Expansion: New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses.

• 8.3: Postwar Economic & Demographic Changes: Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching consequences for American society, politics, and culture.

Key Terms & Events

• Levittown

• Taft-Hartley Act

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

• Second Red Scare

• McCarthyism

• Korean War

• HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

• Warren Court Protections

• Televangelism

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Space Race

• Counterculture

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Stagflation

• Medicare and Medicaid

• Federal Highway System

• Sunbelt and Rustbelt Decline

• Environmental Protections

• Southern Strategy

• Immigration Act of 1965

• Vietnam War

• My Lai Massacre

• Kent State Shootings

• Nixon Doctrine

• Camp David Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• NATO

• Great Society

• Bay of Pigs

• SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

• Peace Corps

• Watergate Scandal

• Détente

• Kitchen Debates

• War Powers Act

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Freedom Summer

• Executive Order 9066

• Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Watts Riots

• Battle of University of California, Berkeley

• Black Panther Party platform

• Miranda v. Arizona decision

• "The Other America"

• Stonewall Riots

Themes

• America & National Identity (NAT)

• Work, Exchange, & Technology (WXT)

• Geography & the Environment (GEO)

• Migration & Settlement (MIG)

• Politics and Power (PCE)

• America in the World (WOR)

• American & Regional Culture (ARC)

• Social Structures (SOC)

Documents to Know

• Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill

• Long Telegram

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NSC-68

• Gideon v. Wainwright decision

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

• Port Huron Statement

• Silent Spring

• Young Americans for Freedom's Sharon Statement with right

• LBJ's "Great Society" speech in 1964

Details to Know

1. Cold War Policies (1945-1980): Containment to Détente

2. Second Red Scare: Causes and Effects

3. Economic Growth After WWII: Causes

4. Internal Migration & Sunbelt Growth: Factors

5. Homogenous Culture Following WWII: Causes and Effects

6. Civil Rights Movement Expansion Through 1960s: Causes

7. Military-Industrial Complex: Debates

8. Cold War Conflict in Latin America: US Intervention

9. Non-Aligned Countries & Cold War Intervention in Africa & Middle East: Impact

10. Vietnam War: Causes and Effects

11. Decline in Confidence of US Government in the 1970s: Factors

12. Liberalism in the Mid-1960s & Conservative Movement Response: Goals

13. Great Society: Goals, Accomplishments, & Concerns on Poverty

14. Civil Rights Movement: Expansion and Extension

15. Protest Movements & Counterculture: Growth

16. Environmental Policy: Changes

17. Evangelical Movements Associated with Conservatives: Rise

Continuities

• Nativism - Second Red Scare

• Decline in Unions

• Conservative Backlash to Change

• Technological Innovations Promoting Culture

• Discriminatory Practices

• Debates Over Role of Government

• Government Regulation of Environment

Changes

• Federal Support for Civil Rights

• Cold War

• Distrust of Government

• Gay Rights

• Federal Highway System

• Military-Industrial Complex