Benson
AP U.S. History
PERIOD 8: 1945-1980
Time:
3 weeks
Required reading:
1. Amsco chapters 26-29
2. Various primary source excerpts
Assessments:
1. Reading Quizzes
2. Multiple Choice Test
3. Short-Answer Questions
Important terms, people, places:
Amsco Chapter 26
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
(GI Bill) (1944)
baby boom
suburban growth
Sunbelt
Harry Truman
Employment Act of 1946
Council of Economic Advisers
Inflation, strikes
Committee on Civil Rights
Twenty-second Amendment
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Progressive party
Henry Wallace
States-Rights party (Dixiecrats)
J. Strom Thurmond
Thomas Dewey
Fair Deal
Cold War
Soviet Union
United Nations
World Bank
Communist satellites
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill
George Kennan
Dean Acheson
containment policy
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin airlift
East Germany; West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
National Security Act (1947)
arms race; NSC-68
U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty
Douglas MacArthur
Chinese civil war
Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan
Mao Zedong
People’s Republic of China
Joseph Stalin
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
Korean War; U.N. police action
38th parallel
Dennis et al. v. United States
Smith Act (1940)
McCarran Internal Security Act
(1950)
House Un-American Activities
Committee
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Rosenberg case
Joseph McCarthy
Amsco Chapter 27
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
modern Republicanism
Oveta Culp Hobby
soil-bank program
Highway Act (1956)
interstate highway system
John Foster Dulles;
“brinksmanship”
massive retaliation
Third World
Iran covert action
Indochina
Geneva Conference
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
domino theory
Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization (1954)
Suez Canal crisis (1956)
Eisenhower Doctrine
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC)
“spirit of Geneva”
open-skies crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
peaceful coexistence
Hungarian revolt
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
U-2 incident
Fidel Castro
Cuba
military-industrial complex
civil rights
Jackie Robinson
NAACP
desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka
Earl Warren
Little Rock crisis
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
civil rights acts of 1957
1960 Civil Rights Commission
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
nonviolent protest sit-in movement
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee
corporate America consumer
culture
David Riesman, The Lonely
Crowd
John Kenneth Galbraith, The
Affluent Society
Beatniks
Amsco Chapter 28
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
New Frontier
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress Trade
Expansion Act (1962)
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban missile crisis (1962)
flexible response
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Warren Commission
Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
War on Poverty
Michael Harrington, The Other
America
Barry Goldwater
Medicare; Medicaid
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (1965)
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Lady Bird Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
James Meredith
Martin Luther King, Jr. March on
Washington;
“I Have a Dream” speech
Black Muslims
Malcolm X
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Watts riots
Kerner Commission
Warren Court
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
Reapportionment
Baker v. Carr
“one man, one vote”
Yates v. United States
separation of church and state
Engel v. Vitale
Students for a Democratic Society
New Left counterculture
sexual revolution
women’s movement
Betty Friedan, The Feminine
Mystique
National Organization for Women
Equal Pay Act (1963)
Equal Rights Amendment
Vietnam War
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Tet offensive
hawks and doves
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
George Wallace
Hubert Humphrey
War Powers Act (1973)
Middle East War (1973)
OPEC; oil embargo
Gerald Ford
Cambodia; Khmer Rouge
Bicentennial
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter
human rights
Panama Canal treaty (1978)
Camp David Accords (1978)
Anwar Sadat; Menachem Begin
Iran; hostage crisis
Afghanistan invasion
cultural pluralism
Immigration Act (1965)
Immigration Reform and Control
Act (1986)
Hispanic Americans
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement
Indian Self-Determination Act
(1975)
Asian Americans
gay liberation movement
environmental movement
Earth Day (1970)
nuclear accidents: Three Mile
Island, Chernobyl
Clean Air Act (1970)
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Water Act (1972)
Environmental Superfund
Amsco Chapter 29
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization
Nixon Doctrine
Kent State
My Lai
Pentagon Papers
Paris Accords of 1973
de´tente
China visit
Soviet Union;
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
New Federalism
stagflation
southern strategy
Warren Burger
George McGovern
Watergate; articles of
impeachment
United States v. Nixon