Chapter 29: America at Mid-Century, 1945 – 1960
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Full Employment Act
Council of Economic Advisors
The threatened railroad strike of 1946
The Taft-Hartley Act
The baby boom
Post-World War II suburbanization/William Levitt
The Highway Act of 1956
Harry S. Truman
Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights”
The Progressive party
The Dixiecrats
The presidential campaign and election of 1948
The Fair Deal
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dynamic conservatism
The National Defense Education Act of 1957
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954
The vital center
The Verona project
The atomic civil defense program
Redbaiting
Truman’s loyalty program (Employee Loyalty Program)
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
The Hollywood Ten//Senator Joseph McCarthy
The Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act)
The Communist Control Act of 1954
The Alger Hiss case//Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
The Army-McCarthy hearings
To Secure These Rights
The Employment Board of the Civil Service Commission and the Committee on Equality of
Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund
Smith v. Allwright and Morgan v. Virginia
Shelly v. Kramer
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Emmett Till
White Citizens Councils
The Little Rock Crisis
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Rosa Parks/Martin Luther King Jr./The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
“The Treaty of Detroit”
The growth of the Sunbelt
The “middle classness” of television programming
The post-World War II religious revival
Gender roles in families of the 1950’s
Dr. Spock
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex
The “crisis of masculinity”
William H. Whyte
Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Hugh Hefner
The “youth culture”/Elvis Presley
The 1950s upsurge in juvenile delinquency
The critics of 1950s conformity
Planned obsolescence
Silent Spring
Urban and rural poverty of the 1950s
The National Housing Act of 1949
1950s growth of agribusiness
Eisenhower’s termination policy
Chapter 30: The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960 – 1960
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The Greensboro sin-in
John F. Kennedy
The presidential election of 1960
“the best and the brightest”
The Alliance for Progress
The Peace Corps
The doctrine of counterinsurgency
The 1961 Berlin crisis
The Bay of Pigs invasion
Operation Mongoose
The Cuban missile crisis
The nuclear test ban treaty of 1963
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Freedom Rides/The Freedom Summer of 1964
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
The Children’s Crusade
James Meredith
George Wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door
Medgar Evers
The March on Washington
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
The New Frontier//The space program
The assassination of John Kennedy//Lee Harvey Oswald//Jack Ruby
Lyndon Johnson
The Great Society
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The presidential and congressional elections of 1964
Barry Goldwater
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Immigration Act of 1965
The War on Poverty
Medicare and Medicaid
The Tonkin Gulf incident and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
The Fulbright hearings
The Harlem race riot of 1964//The Watts race riot of 1965
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The Kerner Commission Report
Malcolm X
The Black Muslims
Stokely Carmichael
Black Power//The Black Panthers
Young Americans for Freedom
The New Left
The Port Huron Statement
The Free Speech Movement
The doctrine of in loco parentis
Students for a Democratic Society
The youth culture of the 1960’s
Woodstock//The counterculture//The Summer of Love
The birth control pill
The Tet offensive
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.//The assassination of Robert Kennedy
The 1964 Democratic National Convention
The presidential election of 1968
Chapter 31: Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969 – 1980
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The Pentagon Papers
Identity politics/African American cultural nationalism
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Reies Tijerina and Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzalez
The Chicano movement
1969 seizure of Alcatraz Island
Native American activism//Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
Affirmative action
The “Philadelphia Plan”
The Feminine Mystique
The National Organization for Women//Radical feminism
The Equal Rights Amendment/Title IX of the Higher Education Act
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Roe v. Wade
Phyllis Schlafly
The gay liberation movement
Vietnamization
The invasion of Cambodia
Kent State and Jackson State
Fragging
The My Lai massacre/The Christmas bombing
The Vietnam cease-fire agreement
The fall of Saigon/The “boat people”
Vietnam syndrome
The War Powers Act of 1973
Henry Kissinger
The Nixon Doctrine
Détente/Nixon’s China trip
The Six Day War
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
The 1973 Middle East war
The OPEC oil embargo
Salvador Allende
Nixon’s Africa policy/Nixon’s goal of devolution/Nixon’s southern strategy
George McGovern
The break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s offices
CREEP/The Plumbers//The Watergate cover up and investigation
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward/The White House tapes
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Spiro Agnew’s resignation
Gerald R. Ford
The 1973 impeachment hearings of the House Judiciary Committee/Nixon’s resignation
The 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act
The pardon of Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
The environmental “superfund”
Stagflation
The 1970s decline in productivity//The energy crisis of the 1970s
The deindustrialization of the American economy/The tax revolt movement
California’s Proposition 13
Neil Armstrong
The 1970s growth of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity
The New Age movement/The “therapeutic” culture/The sexual revolution of the 1970s/The
1970s idea of “diversity”
Bakke v. University of California
Zbigniew Brzezinski vs. Cyrus Vance
The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977
The Camp David Accords
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Carter Doctrine
The Iranian hostage crisis/The Iranian rescue mission
Saddam Hussein/The Iran-Iraq War
Carter’s human rights policy