Unit 4 Study Sheet-1302
Chapter 28:Onset of the Cold War
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Containment
Define the concept of containment? Also, explain how the Truman Doctrine and the
Marshall Plan are examples of that theory in action?
NATO
Taft-Hartley Act
Berlin Blockade
John Foster Dulles
What happened at Yalta?
Communist
Alger Hiss
Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism
Mao Tse-Tung
Chapter 29: Affluence and Anxiety
William Levitt
Growth of Suburbs
“Baby Boom”
Impact of Sputnik
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Discuss the development of the modern Civil Rights movement? Describe and evaluate
the methods used to gain legal rights, and describe the major civil rights leaders of the
era?
Thurgood Marshall
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Orval Faubus and the “Little Rock Nine”
Southern response to court-ordered desegregation
Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of protest
Chapter 30: The Turbulent Sixties
Election of 1960
Bay of Pigs
Freedom Riders
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Cuban Missile Crisis
LBJ’s Great Society Programs
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Woodstock
Counterculture Movement
Black Power Movement
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Tet Offensive
Richard Nixon’s Plan for Vietnam
How did the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and feminism contribute to the
divided American society in 1968?
Chapter 31: The Rise of New Conservatism, 1969-1988
Moral Majority
Watergate
Richard Nixon’s policy of détente
Camp David Accords
What was the root of the Watergate scandal? Who was responsible? Why did it become a
national crisis?
Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy
Supply-side economics
Iran Contra Affair
Chapter 32: To the Twenty-First Century, 1989-2009
Persian Gulf War
Immigration in the 1990’s
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Tiananmen Square
Al Qaeda
Describe the events of September 11, 2001, and evaluate the degree to which those events
have had long-term impacts on the daily lives of every American? Do you believe that
America’s involvement in Iraq contributed to 911? Could it have been prevented?