Unit 8 (1945-1980) Flashcards
1
Q
Cold War
A
1945-1989
2
Q
Baby Boom
A
Late 1940s-1950s
3
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
1947
4
Q
Marshall Plan
A
1947
5
Q
Berlin Airlift
A
1948
6
Q
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A
1949
7
Q
Korean War
A
1950-1953
8
Q
McCarthyism
A
1950s
9
Q
Second Red Scare
A
1950s
10
Q
The Warren Court
A
1953-1969
11
Q
Murder of Emmit Till
A
1954
12
Q
Interstate Highway Act
A
1954
13
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Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, Warsaw Pact
A
1955
14
Q
Little Rock Nine
A
1957
15
Q
Sputnik Launched
A
1957
16
Q
Eisenhower Doctrine
A
1957
17
Q
Cuban Revolution
A
1959
18
Q
Electron of 1960, Kennedy v. Nixon
A
1960
19
Q
John F. Kennedy
A
1961-1963
20
Q
Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall
A
1961
21
Q
Cuban Missile Crisis
A
1962
22
Q
Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”
A
1962
23
Q
Betty Friedan, “Feminine Mystique”
A
1963
24
Q
Civil Rights March on Washington
A
1963
25
*Civil Rights Act of ___*
1964
26
*Gulf of Tonkin Resolution*
1964
27
Great Society
1964-1968
28
*Vietnam War*
1965-1975
29
Voting Rights Act of ___
1965
30
*Forming of Black Panther Party*, Miranda v. Arizona
1966
31
*Women's Liberation Movement*
1960s-1970s
32
Watt Riots, Malcom X assassinated
1965
33
*Counterculture Movements*
1960s
34
*Tet Offensive; Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated; Robert Kennedy Assassinated; Violence at Democratic Convention Riot*
1968
35
American Indian Movement
1968
36
Moon Landing, Detente Begins, Stonewall Riot
1969
37
Kent State Shooting
1971
38
SALT 1
1972
39
*Watergate Scandal*, ERA Act
1972
40
War Powers Act
1973
41
*Roe v. Wade*
1973
42
OPEC Oil Crisis
1970s
43
Bakke v. University of California
1978
44
Camp David Accords
1978
45
SALT 2
1979
