ZOO Review
US History Standard 8
Contemporary History
Keys to Civil Rights (USHC-8.1)
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Stokley Carmichael (Black
Power)
• Thurgood Marshall
• Rosa Parks
• Black Panthers
• Malcolm X (Nation of Islam)
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sit-ins
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Little Rock Nine
• SNCC
• Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
• Freedom Riders
• James Meredith
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Freedom Summer
• Affirmative Action
Key Social and Economic Policies of
Johnson and Nixon (USHC-8.2)
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Society
Medicare
Medicaid
Immigration Act of 1965
Economic Opportunity Act
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act
Water Quality Act
Clean Air Act of 1965
Air Quality Act
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Richard Nixon
New Federalism
Revenue Sharing
Family Assistance Plan
Environmental Protection
Agency
Clean Air Act of 1970
Endangered Species Act
Vietnam War (USHC-8.3)
Causes of the War
• Ho Chi Minh
• Vietminh
(Vietcong)
• Domino Theory
• Dien Bien Phu
• Geneva Accords
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Ho Chi Minh
Trail
• Tonkin Gulf
Resolution
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During the War
General William
Westmoreland
Operation Rolling
Thunder
Search-andDestroy
Winning the
Hearts and Minds
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
My Lai Massacre
Televised Warfare
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Effects of the War
Hawks and Doves
Credibility Gap
Draft
Kent State University
Shootings
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act
New Left
Students for a
Democratic Society
Free Speech
Movement
Key Events in Liberalism and
Conservatism(USHC-8.4)
Supreme Court Cases
• Mapp v. Ohio
• Gideon v.
Wainwright
• Escobedo v. Illinois
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Roe v. Wade
• Regents of the
University of
California v. Bakke
• Webster v.
Reproductive Health
Care Services
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Social and Cultural
Changes
Counterculture
Women’s Liberation
Movement
Civil Rights
Movement
Hispanic Civil Rights
Movement
Native American
Activism
Environmental
Movement
Reagan’s Economic and
Social Policies
• Reaganomics
• Supply-Side
Economics
• Deregulation
• Appointment of
Sandra Day O’Conner
• Scaling back on
entitlement programs
Key Political and Economic Issues
1970 to the 2000s (USHC-8.5)
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Economic
Increased dependence on
foreign oil
Stagflation
Globalization
NAFTA
WTO
GATT
Increased wealth gap
Increased national debt
Supply-side economics
Reaganomics
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Political
Watergate
Resignation of Nixon
Impeachment of Clinton
2000 Election
Election of Obama
Immigration control
Health Care reform
Education reform
Key Foreign Affairs in the 70s, 80s, 90s,
and 2000s (USHC-8.6)
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Détente
SALT I
End of Vietnam War
Camp David Accords
Iranian Revolution and
Hostages
• INF Treaty
• SDI
• Iran-Contra Affair
• End of the Cold War
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Persian Gulf War
(Operation Desert Storm)
• First World Trade
Bombing
• Involvement with and the
advancement of the
European Union
• 9-11
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq