APUSH
Mrs. Farris
Name: ___________________________________
Date: ____________________________________
1940s-80s Domestic Policy
Directions: Please use your textbook and the internet to gather information for each of the
following. Please list important information for each and its date or decade of popularity if there
is not specific date (ex – hippies). Answers should be in note form on a separate sheet of
paper!
1. Fair Deal
2. GI Bill of Rights
3. Dixiecrats
4. Taft-Hartley Act
5. 22nd Amendment
6. National Security Act
7. Levittown
8. David Reisman
9. Title VII
10. New Frontier
11. Project Head Start
12. Warren Commission
13. Great Society
14. Medicare/Medicaid
15. Elementary and Secondary Reform Act
16. Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
17. Jack Kerouac
18. Port Huron Statement
19. Students for a Democratic Society
20. Hippies
21. Yippies
22. Timothy Leary
23. Betty Freidan and The Feminine Mystique
24. Cesar Chavez and the NFW
25. National Organization of Women (NOW)
26. Nixonomics
27. Apollo 11
28. Woodstock
29. Roe v. Wade
30. CREEP
31. Three Mile Island
32. energy crisis (Carter’s presidency)
33. Equal Rights Amendment
34. Reaganomics
35. Geraldine Ferraro