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Unit 8 Exam Study Guide
CHAPTER 36
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Economy in early 1950s (causes/effects, characteristics)
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Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947 
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GI Bill 
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Movement to the suburbs
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Policy of containment
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Truman Doctrine (purpose)
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Marshall Plan
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Nuremburg Trials
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NATO 
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Berlin
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Truman’s economic policies/goals
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Korean War
CHAPTER 37
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Interstate Highway Act
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Massive Retaliation
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McCarthyism
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HUAC
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Suez Crisis
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Hungarian Revolt
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Corporate America
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Literature
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Religious changes
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Baby Boom
CHAPTER 38
KENNEDY:
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Kennedy’s “New Frontier” (characteristics)
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“Massive Retaliation” v. “Flexible Response”
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“Beat” generation (literature)
JOHNSON:
 “The Great Society”
 Immigration and Nationality Act
CHAPTER 39
NIXON:
 Détente 
 SALT I Treaty 
 Nixon Doctrine:
 Watergate Scandal (what did Nixon do wrong?) 
 Environmentalism (literature) 
 Nixon’s economic policies:
 Oil Crisis (causes, effects):
CARTER:
 Foreign Events:
o Camp David Agreement 
o Iran Hostage Crisis:
Economic Characteristics of the 1970s:
CHAPTER 40
REAGAN:
 Reaganomics:
 Society (Moral Majority)
 Foreign Policy/Events:
BUSH:
 End of Cold War (characteristics)
 Persian Gulf War:
GENERAL
 Civil Rights Movements:
o March on Birmingham
o Malcolm X
o Civil Rights Act of 1964
o Bus Boycott
o Brown v. Board
o American Indian Civil Rights Movement
 VIETNAM
o Gulf of Tonkin
o Kent State
o Tet Offensive
 Struggle for equality in the 1980s:
 University of California v. Bakke 
 Youth culture in the 1960s (characteristics):
 Chief Justice Earl Warren (major cases):
 American Indians fight for Civil Rights:
 1968 (why was it so chaotic?)
 FEMINIST MOVEMENT:
o Feminine Mystique 
o NOW 
o Opposition?
o Roe v. Wade 