Period 8 Vocab



Civil Rights Act of 1964

Malcolm X

Black Power Movement

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Tet Offensive

The Counterculture

Woodstock

Cesar Chavez

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Richard M. Nixon

Watergate

Henry Kissinger

Stagflation

Vietnamization

My Lai Massacre

Kent State

Pentagon Papers

Detente

Gerald Ford

Security Council

Iron Curtain

George F. Kennan

Containment

Truman Doctrine

George C. Marshall

Marshall Plan

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Jackie Robinson

Dixiecrats

General Dougal MacArthur

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Alger Hiss

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

Baby Boom

Levittown

Beats

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Massive Resistance

Rosa Parks

Emmitt Till

Martin Luther King Jr. 

John Foster Dulles

Massive Retaliation

Brinkmanship

Ho Chi Minh

Dien Bien Phu

Viet Cong

Fidel Castro

John F. Kennedy

New Frontier

Lyndon B. Johnson

Great Society

Miranda v. Arizona

Freedom Riders

James Meredith

March on Washington

Cuban Missile Crisis

Bay of Pigs Invasion