Contemporary America
1960-Present
Ch. 41-43
Themes:
- Civil Rights Movement to 1960
- The impact of communism upon both foreign and domestic affairs in the two decades after World War II
- continued impact of New Deal in governments' role in society
- Struggle for civil liberties and civil rights: race and gender
- War in Vietnam and Reaction
- Watergate and its Legacy
- Economic crisis of 1970s
- Reagan Revolution and its legacy
- End of the Cold War
- America at the close of the 20th century
Terms:
- John F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert S. McNamara
- Charles de Gaulle
- martin Luther King, Jr.
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Barry Goldwater
- Malcolm X
- Stokely Carmichael
- Eugene McCarthy
- Hubert H. Humphrey
- Richard M. Nixon
- George Wallace
- Flexible response
- Credibility gap
- New Frontier
- Peace Corps
- Alliance of Progress
- Bay of Pigs
- Nuclear-test ban treaty
- March on Washington
- War on Poverty
- Great Society
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- 24th Amendment
- Voting Rights Act
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Pueblo Incident
- Tet Offensive
- Spiro Agnew
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Henry Kissinger
- Earl Warren
- Warren Burger
- George McGovern
- Sam Ervin
- James Dean
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Shah of Iran
- Aytollah Khomeini
- Detente
- Executive Privilege
- Vietnamization
- Nixon Doctrine
- My Lai Massacre
- Kent State killings
- 26th Amendment
- Pentagon Papers
- SALT
- MIRVS
- The Watergate Scandal
- CREEP
- War Powers Act
- OPEC
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
Essay Questions:
- Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the view that the 1960s represented a period of profound cultural change
- Education
- Music
- Gender Roles
- Race Relations
- Assess the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
- Compare and contrast the Cold War foreign policies of TWO of the following presidents
- Harry Turman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Richard Nixon