Period8, Ch39-40 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Modern America (1945-1980), part2:
Turbulent 1960s and 1970s (Ch. 39-40)
...is about exploring a period of great change in American society exemplified by the Cold War and reform strategies of the Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson. Social upheavals of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War generated tensions that seemed to be
quieted in the 1970s until renewed social reform, economic instability, and tension in the Middle East continued the trend of change.
Objectives:
1. Compare the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. (domestic policy, foreign policy, successes,
setbacks, etc)
2. Analyze the American strategies toward Vietnam and the impacts of the Vietnam War.
3. Describe the rise, gains, and setbacks of the 1960s/1970s reform movements.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 39
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
Robert McNamara
New Frontier
Apollo
Peace Corps
Berlin Wall
Flexible Response
Ngo Dinh Diem
Alliance for Progress
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Freedom Riders
Martin Luther King
SNCC
March on Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Affirmative action
Great Society
Medicare/Medicaid
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Freedom Summer
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X
Black Panther Party
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power
Escalation
Hawks
Israel
Six Day War
Draft
Credibility gap
Doves
Beat movement
Free Speech Movement
Stonewall Rebellion
Counterculture
Chapter 40
Richard Nixon
Vietnamization
Nixon Doctrine
Silent majority
My Lai
Kent State
Pentagon papers
26th Amendment
Ch40 cont
Détente
Earl Warren court
Miranda warning
New Federalism
Philadelphia Plan
Environmental Protection Agency
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Southern strategy
Watergate
War Powers Act
OPEC
Embargo
Executive privilege
Gerald Ford
Equal Rights Amendment
Roe v. Wade
Milliken v. Bradley
Regents of Univ of Cal v. Bakke
American Indian Movement
Cesar Chavez
Jimmy Carter
Stagflation
SALT
Iran hostage crisis
Cumulative Content
Slave trade
Slavery
Reconstruction
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Ed
Federalist Party
Democratic-Republicans
Democratic Party
Whigs
Know Nothing Party
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
Populist Party
Progressives
Social Security
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Brinksmanship
Feminine Mystique