Key Ideas and Terms (1945-1975)
(Use with Lessons 2 & 3)
President
Domestic
Issues &
Policies
Truman
G. I. Bill
Eisenhower
Truman- Fair Deal
Foreign Policy
/ Wars
Key
Elections
Post War Japan &
Germany
1948
LBJ
Nixon
Taft Hartley Act
EisenhowerModerate
Republicanism
Desegregation of the
armed forces
1960
United Nations
JFK
Civil Rights
& Minorities
Social
Critics
Baby Boom
David Riesman
White Flight
Ginsburg/Kerouac
Levittown
Beatniks
Betty Freidan
Berkley Free
Speech
Movement
Dixiecrats
1968
Containment/
George Kennan
Women &
Families
Brown v. Board
Massive Resistance
ERA
The Truman
Doctrine
White Citizens Councils
Interstate Highway
Act
Berlin Airlift
SCLC
H.U.A.C
NATO
Martin Luther King
Phyllis Schafly
Anti-War
Movement
NOW
S.D.S.
Roe v. Wade
McCarthyism
NSC-68
Bus Boycott
Red Scare
The Korean War
1957 Civil Rights
Commission
Kennedy- New
Frontier
Domino Theory
George Wallace
Massive Retaliation
Johnson- Great
Society
SNCC
Military Industrial
Complex
Sit-ins
Nixon- New
Federalism
Eisenhower Doctrine
Freedom Riders
Watergate
Chinese Civil War
Birmingham
Guatemala
March on Washington
Flexible Response
Voting Rights Act
U2 Incident
Civil Rights Act
Alliance for Progress
Black Rage
Bay of Pigs
Black Panthers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bobby Seals & Huey
Newton
Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Vietcong
Vietnamization
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
California v. Bakke
Détente
Salt I
Boston Busing Riots
Decline of 2
parent
households