APUSH
Reading Assignments
ROBERTSON
2015
Recent America: 1964-2008
Important Terms/Concepts 1964-2008
Chapter 29
Lyndon Johnson
The Great Society
Barry Goldwater
election of 1964
Medicare and Medicaid
the war on poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity
Community Action
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
evaluation of the Great Society
Vietnam’s colonial background
the Vietminh
France v. Vietminh
First Indochina War
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Conference
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Chapter 30
New Left
Students for a Democratic Society
Free Speech Movement
People’s Park
Weathermen
Antiwar rallies
Anti-draft movement
Counterculture
Hippies
Haight-Ashbury
Rock’n’Roll
Woodstock
status of Native Americans
Termination policy and results
Declaration of Indian Purpose
American Indian Movement
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
the Vietcong
Buddhist demonstrations
overthrow of Diem
LBJ’s expansion in Vietnam
Robert McNamara
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Pacification program
anti-war movement
Fullbright hearings
Robert Kennedy
impact of war on U.S. economy & Great Society
Tet Offensive
Democratic presidential candidates
King assassination and reaction
Kennedy assassination and reaction
Democratic National Convention
George Wallace
“silent majority”
Richard Nixon
Election of 1968
militant actions of AIM
Wounded Knee Occupation
United States v. Wheeler
Latino status & demographics
Operation Wetback (seriously?)
Chicanos
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
bilingual education
Cultural pluralism
Stonewall Riot
Gay Liberation Movement
The Feminine Mystique
Equal Pay Act
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
My Lai Massacre
government treatment of antiwar groups
Easter Offensive
negotiations and the election of 1972
Christmas bombing
Paris Accords
Fall of Saigon
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
effects of the war
U.S. policy on China
Nixon’s China visit
SALT I
Nixon Doctrine
Salvador Allende
CIA actions in Chile
Chapter 31
Gerald Ford
pardon of Nixon
SALT II
Election of 1976
Jimmy Carter – strengths and weaknesses
economic problems
Carter and human rights
Camp David Accords
Iranian Revolution
hostage crisis
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Sunbelt politics
Sagebrush rebellion
Evangelical Christianity
Moral Majority/ Christian Coalition
the New Right
Ronald Reagan
National Organization for Women
the new feminism
changes in the 1970s
Equal Rights Amendment
Roe v. Wade
ecology movement
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
environmental issues
Earth Day
Environmental Protection Agency
Henry Kissinger
new Vietnam policy
Cambodia – bombings/invasion
Kent State
Pentagon Papers
Six-Day War
Arab Oil Embargo
Nixon’s domestic actions
Engel v. Vitale
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Baker v. Carr
the Burger Court
Bakke v. Regents of California
Election of 1972
economic problems of the 1970s
OPEC
Deindustrialization
Nixon’s response to stagflation
Watergate (will be covered in class)
Proposition 13 and the Tax revolt
Election of 1980
end of hostage crisis
the Reagan coalition
Reaganomics
deregulation
Recession of 1982
National debt and the budget problem
“Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative
Reagan Doctrine
Grenada
Sandinistas
Beirut Bombing, 1983
Terrorism
Chapter 32
NAFTA
Clinton’s Health Care reform
Bosnia
Congressional elections of 1994
Newt Gingrich
1996 welfare reform
Lewinski scandal
Clinton’s impeachment
Kosovo
evaluation of Clinton’s presidency
election of 2000: candidates, outcome
Bush tax cuts
Bush’s position on social issues
election of 2004
two-tiered economy
globalization
Rodney King
AIDS epidemic
Right to Life / Pro-Choice Movements
Islamic fundamentalism
Terrorism
Al Qaeda
the Iraq War
assessment of Bush presidency
election of 2008
Election of 1984
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika
Tiananmen Square
Nelson Mandela
USSR dissolution
Savings and Loan Crisis
Iran-Contra scandal
Election of 1988
George H.W. Bush
Recession of 1990
Gulf War
Election of 1992
Ross Perot