Period 8 Vocabulary
For this unit: Write down information on each term as you come across it in your reading. Bring your notes and
book with you to class the day we are discussing that chapter. You will have a reading quiz the day the reading
is due.
Chapter 31 Key Terms –
1. baby boom
2. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
3. Employment Act of 1946
4. Taft-Hartley Act
5. National Security Act
6. United Nations
7. iron curtain
8. containment
9. George F. Kennan
10. Truman Doctrine
11. cold war
12. George C. Marshall
13. Marshall Plan
14. Berlin Airlift
15. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
16. Fair Employment Practices Committee
(FEPC)
17. Jackie Robinson
18. Henry A. Wallace
19. J. Strom Thurmond
20. Dixiecrat Party
21. Progressive Party
22. Fair Deal
23. Douglas MacArthur
24. Inchon
25. second Red Scare
26. House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC)
27. Alger Hiss
28. Whittaker Chambers
29. Richard Nixon
30. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
31. Joseph R. McCarthy
Chapter 32 Key Terms –
1. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
2. Veterans Administration
3. baby boom
4. Sunbelt
5. William Levitt
6. Levittown
7. white flight
8. white collar
9. “In God We Trust”
10. juvenile delinquency
11. rock ’n’ roll
12. Alan Freed
13. Elvis Presley
14. Arthur Miller
15. Death of a Salesman
16. James Jones
17. From Here to Eternity
18. Ralph Ellison
19. Invisible Man
20. Jackson Pollock
21. abstract expressionism
22. the Beats
23. Allen Ginsberg
24. Howl
25. Jack Kerouac
26. On the Road
Chapter 33 Key Terms –
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Richard M. Nixon
Twenty-Second Amendment
Adlai E. Stevenson
Earl Warren
John Foster Dulles
brinksmanship
massive retaliation
8. Third World
9. Ho Chi Minh
10. Dien Bien Phu
11. Geneva Accords
12. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
13. Sputnik
14. missile gap
15. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
16. National Defense Education Act
17. Eisenhower Doctrine
18. separate but equal
19. Brown v. Board of Education
20. Massive Resistance
21. Rosa Parks
22. Montgomery bus boycott
23. Martin Luther King Jr.
24. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
25. Civil Rights Act of 1957
26. Orval Faubus
Chapter 34 Key Terms 1. John F. Kennedy
2. New Frontier
3. Peace Corps
4. Warren Court
5. Gideon v. Wainwright
6. Miranda v. Arizona
7. Martin Luther King Jr.
8. Montgomery bus boycott
9. sit-in
10. Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee
11. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
12. Congress of Racial Equality
13. freedom riders
14. Eugene “Bull” Connor
15. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
16. George C. Wallace
17. March on Washington
18. Bay of Pigs
19. Cuban Missile Crisis
20. Ngo Dinh Diem
21. Lee Harvey Oswald
22. Lyndon B. Johnson
23. War on Poverty
24. The Other America
25. Great Society
26. Barry Goldwater
27. The Conscience of a Conservative
28. Medicare
29. Medicaid
30. Immigration Act of 1965
31. Civil Rights Act of 1964
32. Selma to Montgomery march
33. Voting Rights Act of 1965
34. Stokely Carmichael
35. Black Power
36. Black Panther Party
37. Malcom X
38. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
39. Rolling Thunder
40. Tet Offensive
41. Robert F. Kennedy
42. Hubert H. Humphrey
43. silent majority
Chapter 35 Key Terms –
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New Left
Students for a Democratic Society
Free Speech movement
Yippies
Weathermen
counterculture
hippies
Woodstock Music Festival
Altamont
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
Nation Organization for Women
Title IX
Equal Rights Amendment
Roe v. Wade
sexual revolution
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“make love, not war”
Chicano
United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement
Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization
draft lottery
Cambodian incursion
Kent State University
The Pentagon Papers
Christmas bombings
Southern strategy
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of
Education
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Bakke v. Board of Regents of California
Neil Armstrong
New Federalism
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
stagflation
OPEC
Silent Spring
Environmental Protection Agency
Nixon Doctrine
George Wallace
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George S. McGovern
Watergate break-in
United States v. Nixon
Gerald Ford
Twenty-fifth Amendment
War Powers Act
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords
SALT
Ayatollah Khomeini
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Oliver North
gentrification
AIDS
George H.W. Bush
Tiananmen Square
perestroika
glasnost
Boris Yeltsin
Manuel Noriega
Saddam Hussein
Desert Shield
Desert Storm
Chapter 36 Key Terms –
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Ronald Regan
Moral Majority
Reganomics
Economic Recovery Tax Act
conflict of interest
Professional Air Traffic Controllers
Sandra Day O’Connor
Strategic Defense Initiative
Contras
Walter Mondale
Tax Reform Act
Iran-Contra affair
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