APUSH Period 8

Cold War

Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin

United Nations

satellites

Winston Churchill

Iron Curtain

containment policy

George Marshall

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin airlift

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Warsaw Pact

National Security Act

arms race

Douglas McArthur

Mao Zedong

People’s Republic of China

38th parallel

Korean War

John Foster Dulles

brinkmanship

massive retaliation

Korean armistice

Nikita Khrushchev

Sputnik

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

U-2 incident

Fidel Castro

military-industrial complex

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

Cuban missile crisis

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

flexible-response policy

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Henry Kissinger

detente

anti-ballistic missiles

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Loyalty Review Board

Dennis et al. v. United States

Smith Act

McCarran Internal Security Act

House Un-American Activities Committee

Alger Hiss

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

McCarthyism

Harry S. Truman

Employment Act of 1946

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

baby boom

Levittown

22nd Amendment

Taft-Hartley Act

Fair Deal

Dwight D. Eisenhower

modern Republicanism

Highway Act

New Frontier

beatniks

Jackie Robinson

Committee on Civil Rights

Thurgood Marshall

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Southern Manifesto

desegregation

Little Rock

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.

Montgomery bus boycott

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

sit-in movement

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

covert action

Suez crisis

Eisenhower Doctrine

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Yom Kippur War

oil embargo

Camp David Accords

Peace Corps

Alliance for Progress

Ngo Dinh Diem

domino theory

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

General William Westmoreland

Tet Offensive

Robert F. Kennedy

Richard Nixon

Democratic Convention in Chicago

Hubert Humphrey

Henry Kissinger

Vietnamization

Nixon Doctrine

Kent State

My Lai

Pentagon Papers

Paris Accords

War Powers Act

Lyndon Johson

Great Society

War on Poverty

Medicare

Medicaid

Silent Spring

James Meredith

George Wallace

Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

March on Washington

“I Have a Dream” speech

Civil Rights Act

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

24th Amendment

March to Montgomery

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Muslim

Malcolm X

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Congress of Racial Equality

Stokely Carmichael

Black Panthers

de facto segregation

The Feminine Mystique

National Organization for Women

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title IX

Equal Rights Amendment

American Indian Movement

Warren Court

Mapp v. Ohio

Miranda v. Arizona

Students for a Democratic Society

New Left

Woodstock

Silent Spring

Three Mile Island

Earth Day

Environmental Protection Agency

Clean Air Act

Clean Water Act

Endangered Species Act

Richard Nixon

Silent Majority

Southern strategy

Watergate

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Burger Court

Roe v.Wade

Moral Majority