Period 8: 1945 - 1980

• Period 8 is worth 15% of the AP Exam. This period will be covered in approximately 10 class periods.
  The College Board uses key concepts to denote the testable material for each period. The full, detailed version of these concepts are located here. Please take the time to know these concepts, as anything mentioned is fair game for the AP Exam.
  
  Key Concept 8.1– The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reading domestic and international consequences.
  
  Key Concept 8.2– New movements for civil rights and liberal efforts to expand the role of government generated a range of political and cultural responses.
  
  Key Concept 8.3– Postwar economic and demographic changes had far-reaching consequences for American society, politics, and culture

Period 8 Key Terms
Key terms that will be an invaluable study tool as we get closer to the AP exam in May. Each term should include the information provided on Quizlet.
Chapter 24

• 1. “Long Telegram”

  2. Containment

  3. Iron Curtain

  4. NATO

  5. Truman Doctrine

  6. Marshall Plan

  7. Berlin Airlift

  8. Warsaw Pact

  9. Second Red Scare

  10. McCarthyism

  11. Bay of Pigs Operation

  12. Cuban Missile Crisis

Chapter 25

• 13. Baby Boomers

  14. Taft-Hartley Act

  15. Fair Deal

  16. Military-industrial complex

  17. Korean War

  18. Levittown

  19. Brown v. Board of Education

  20. Montgomery Bus Boycott

  21. Martin Luther King Jr.

  22. Malcolm X

  23. Little Rock Nine

  24. Sit-ins

  25. SNCC

Chapter 26

• 26. Domino theory

  27. Geneva Accords

  28. SEATO

  29. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  30. Ho Chi Minh Trail

  31. Tet Offensive

  32. My Lai Massacre

  33. Vietnamization

  34. Détente

  35. Ping Pong diplomacy

  36. Watergate

Chapter 27

• 37. Great Society

  38. Warren Court

  39. Freedom Rides

  40. Birmingham campaign

  41. March on Washington

  42. Freedom Summer

  43. Civil Rights Act of 1964

  44. Voting Rights Act of 1965

  45. New Left

  46. Black Power

  47. National Organization of Women (NOW)

  48. American Indian Movement

  49. Chicano Movement/Cesar Chavez

Chapter 28

• 50. SALT I

  51. MAD (mutually assured destruction)

  52. Camp David Accords

  53. Iranian Hostage Crisis

  54. Crisis of Confidence Speech

  55. ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

  56. Roe v. Wade

  57. Stonewall Riots

  58. Religious Rights

  59. Iran-Contra Scandal

  60. Reaganomics

  61. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty