Period 8 (1945 - 1980)

AP Exam Weight: 10 - 17%

8.1 Contextualizing Period 8

8.2 Cold War from 1945-1980

8.3 The Red Scare

8.4 Economy after 1945

8.5 Culture after 1945

8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s -1950s)

8.7 America as a World Power

8.8 The Vietnam War

8.9 The Great Society

8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands

9.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s

9.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968-1980

9.14 Society in Transition

9.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8

Period 8 Essentials

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-reaching 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.