APUSH Unit 7 – Vocabulary (1945-present?)!

NATO

collective security/mutual defense

CENTO/ SEATO

NSC-68

containment 

George F. Kennan

Marshall Plan

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech

Truman Doctrine

Berlin Blockade/ Airlift

Warsaw Pact

Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong)

Korean War

General Douglas MacArthur

38^th Parallel

Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)

John Foster Dulles

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

brinksmanship

Hungarian Revolt (1956)

Eisenhower Doctrine

Suez Crisis

Nikita Khrushchev

U-2 Incident

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

Berlin Wall

ICBMs

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Domino Theory

Flexible response

Robert McNamara

Ho Chi Minh

Viet Cong (VC)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet Offensive 

Agent Orange

My Lai Massacre 

Television War 

Vietnamization 

Paris Peace Accords, 1973 

Covert operations in Afghanistan

Mikhail Gorbachev 

Glastnost & Peristroika 

Tiananmen Square 

Fall of Berlin Wall

2^nd Red Scare

Alger Hiss

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

National Security Act (1947, 1949)

Loyalty Boards

Senator Joseph McCarthy/ McCarthyism

Atomic Age

Sputnik

 “Duck and Cover”

National Defense Education Act (NDEA)

NASA

“military-industrial complex”

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 

INF Treaty 

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS  (1954)

Mapp vs. Ohio (1961) 

Baker vs. Carr (1962)

Engel vs. Vitale (1962) 

Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963) 

Escobedo vs. Illinois (1964) 

Miranda vs. Arizona (1966)

Tinker vs. Des Moines (1969) 

22^nd Amendment (1951)

24^th Amendment (1964)

25^th Amendment (1967)

26^th Amendment (1971) 

G.I. Bill (1944)

Baby Boom

Levittown, NY

Fair Deal

Senator Strom Thurmond/ Dixiecrats

Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)

Taft-Hartley Act

AFL-CIO merger

Alfred Kinsey

Beat Movement

Jack Kerouac – On the Road

Allen Ginsberg – “Howl”

The Organization Man (1956)

 “New conservatives”

Sunbelt

JFK’s “New Frontier”

Peace Corps 

Great Society / “War on Poverty” 

Office of Economic Opportunity

Medicare/ Medicaid

HUD 

Counterculture/ Hippie movement

New Left

1968 Democratic Party Convention

Southern Strategy (Nixon) 

Ralph Nader – Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) 

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring (1962) 

Mendez v. Westminster School District (1946) 

Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bayard Rustin

Montgomery, AL bus boycott

SCLC

CORE

“Southern Manifesto”

Little Rock, AR desegregation crisis

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

 “March on Washington”

Civil Rights Act of 1964 

Freedom Summer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Kerner Commission

Black Panthers

Malcolm X 

Nation of Islam

Black Power

Stokely Carmichael 

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 

Cesar Chavez 

Chicano/Brown Power Movement 

Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique

NOW

ERA

Stonewall Riots

Gay Liberation Movement

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Kent State

Pentagon Papers

Watergate

SALT I & II

Détente 

War Powers Act 1973

3^rd Wave Immigration 

ERA

Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education, 1971

Bakke v. Board of Regents, University of California at Davis, 1978

Roe v. Wade, 1973

Love Canal

Three Mile Island

Environmental Movement

Yom Kippur War

Henry Kissinger 

Harvey Milk 

OPEC 

Stagflation 

Panama Canal Treaties

Camp David Accords

Iranian Hostage crisis

Phyllis Schlafly/ Stop ERA

“Moral Majority”/ Jerry Falwell

Reaganomics

Supply-side/ “trickle down” economics 

Deregulation

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Iran-Contra Affair 

3^rd wave immigration (from where??)

Satellite communications technology

Internet revolution

Social Media

Affirmative Action

Rodney King riots

Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War) 

Graying of America

Globalization 

NAFTA (trade agreement)

Contract With America (1994)

Health Care Reform (1990s) 

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

Bosnia & Kosovo (1990s)

9/11

Al Qaeda/ Osama Bin Laden

PATRIOT Act 

War on Terror

Department of Homeland Security

Hurricane Katrina

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) & Education reform