APUS - Unit 13 Identifications

	Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class
			Unit 13 - Postwar America: At Home and Abroad
			Unit 13 - Postwar America: At Home and Abroad
			Key Terms/Identifications Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when. the Taft-Hartley Act the Progressive party the Dixiecrats the Alien Registration (Smith) Act Truman's loyalty program (Employee Loyalty Program) the Alger Hiss trial Senator Joseph McCarthy the Rosenbergs the Internal Security Act of 1950 the Communist Control Act of 1954 the Army-McCarthy hearings the military-industrial complex the Cold War atomic diplomacy the Iron Curtain speech the Truman Doctrine the Greek civil war the Mr. X article the containment doctrine the Marshall Plan the National Security Act of 1947 the Berlin blockade and airlift the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NSC-68 Japanese reconstruction the Chinese civil war Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong the Korean War General Douglas MacArthur the Inchon landing Chinese entry into the Korean War General Omar Bradley the Korean armistice John Foster Dulles deterrence brinkmanship the nuclear arms race Sputnik and the missile race the National Defense Education Act the nuclear triad the Hungarian uprising the Berlin crisis of 1958 the U-2 incident the 1961 Berlin crisis the Bay of Pigs invasion the Cuban missile crisis Robert S. McNamara the Nixon-Kissinger grand strategy detente the SALT Treaty Nixon's China trip Carter's human rights policy the SALT-II treaty the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Solidarity Mikhail S. Gorbachev perestroika and glasnost the 1987 INF treaty the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe the disintegration of the Soviet Union the Eisenhower Doctrine Ho Chi Minh the Vietminh Dienbienphu the domino theory SEATO Ngo Dinh Diem the National Liberation Front (the Vietcong) the Tonkin Gulf incident and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution Agent Orange the My Lai massacre the Tet offensive Vietnamization the invasion of Cambodia the Christmas bombing the Vietnam cease-fire agreement the War Powers Resolution the fall of Saigon technological unemployment DDT planned obsolescence Arthur Levitt and Sons the GI Bill of Rights the National Defense Education Act prenatal and pediatric care, penicillin, wonder drugs, and the Salk polio vaccine the National Housing Act of 1949 the cult of youth Jackson Pollock the Beat writers The Affluent Society Profiles in Courage the New Frontier Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Riders Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee James Meredith the March on Washington Medgar Evers Sheriff Bull Connor Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing Lee Harvey Oswald the Great Society the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 the presidential and congressional elections of 1964 the Medicare program the Elementary and Secondary Education Act the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the Civil Rights Act of 1968 the Indian Bill of Rights the War on Poverty Earl Warren the Supreme Court's school-prayer decision Griswold v. Connecticut Gideon v. Wainwright, Escobedo v. Illinois, and Miranda v. Arizona the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 J. Edgar Hoover the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party race riots of 1964 Watts race riot Malcolm X the Black Muslims Stokely Carmichael the Black Panther party the SDS the counterculture Timothy Leary antiwar protests the U.S.S. Pueblo the assassination of Martin Luther King the assassination of Robert Kennedy the 1968 Democratic convention the presidential election of 1968 and George C. Wallace OPEC price increases of 1973 recession in the auto industry WIN (Whip Inflation Now) monetarists the nuclear power debate Brown's Ferry and Three Mile Island the environmental superfund the Moral Majority Reaganomics Geraldine Ferraro the dual status of Indians the Immigration Reform and Control (Simpson-Rodino) Act the antifeminist (profamily) movement the Equal Rights Amendment the Hyde Amendment the gender gap Return to Unit Syllabus mruland@comcast.net Report any Broken Links Last updated April 14, 2004 © Marcella Ruland 1998-2009, All rights reserved