AP US Chapters 36-40 Study Guide

Cold War 1945-1960

Bretton Woods Conference 1944/Dumbarton Oaks Conference 1944/United Nations Charter Conference 1945/Security Council/General Assembly/Secretary General/Yalta Conference 1945/Potsdam Conference 1945/Iron Curtain Speech 1946/Biopolarity, Third World/Satellite Countries/Nuremberg Trials 1945/Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1946/Voice of America/Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE)/Josip B. Tito/Truman Doctrine 1947/Creation of Israel 1948/Marshall Plan 1948/Czechoslovakian Coup 1948/Organization of American States (OAS) 1948/Point Four Plan 1949/Berlin Block and Airlift 1949/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1949/Anzus 1951/Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) 1954/Warsaw Pact 1955/Baghdad Pact 1955, Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) 1958/Common Market, European Economic Community (EEC) 1957/Chinese Civil War, Mao Tse-Tung/Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomingtang/Korean War 1950-1953/Panmunjom 1951/Truman-MacArthur Controversy 1952/John F. Dulles (brinkmanship)/pre-emptive strike/massive retaliation/Containment Policy/Peaceful Coexistence/Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964/Hungarian Revolution 1956/Suez Canal Crisis, Gamal Nasser 1956/Eisenhower Doctrine 1957/Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)

Civil Rights in the late 1940’s and 1950’s

A, Phillip Randolph/Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 1942/Gunnar Mydral/Army Desegregation 1948/Thurgood Marshall/Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956/Martin Luther King Jr./Central High School 1957 (Little Rock, AR)/Civil Rights Act 1957/Separate but Equal Doctrine/NAACP/Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1957/Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 1960/Sit-ins 1960

Civil Rights in the 1960’s

SNCC and Stokley Carmichael/Freedom Riders/Medgar Evers/March on Washington 1963/Civil Rights Act 1964/Voting Rights Act 1965/Malcolm X/Black Muslims/Black Power/Watts 1965, Detriot 1966 and Kerner Commission 1967/Black Panthers 1967/Civil Rights Act 1968/defacto and de jure segregation/Robert Weaver and HUD

Vietnam 1954-1973

Domino theory/Ho Chi-minh (Vietminh)/Viet Cong/Dien Bien Phu 1954/Geneva Conference of 1954/Ngo Dinh Diem/De-militarized Zone/Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 and Senator Fullbright/Tet Offensive 1968/My Lai 1968/Kent State, Jackson State 1970/Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers/William Westmoreland and testimony before Congress/Vietnamization/Nixon Doctrine 1969/Hai Phong 1972/Laos, Cambodia/Paris Accords 1973

1960’s

U-2 Incident 1960/John F. Kennedy/Berlin Wall 1961/Peace Corps 1961/Bay of Pigs 1961/Fidel Castro/Alliance for Progress 1961/Cuban Missile Crisis 1962/Flexible Response/Trade Expansion Act 1962/Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963/Earl Warren/Warren Commission 1963/Lydon B. Johnson/War on Poverty/Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) 1964/Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO) 1964/Medicare and Medicaid 1965/Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965/Higher Education Act 1965/Dominican Republic Intervention 1965/Salvador Allende/Six-Day War 1967/John Birch Society/Barry Goldwater/New Left/Neil Armstrong/Sunbelt/Rustbelt/Robert F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon/George Wallace/Senator George McGovern/Democratic Party Convention Riots 1968/Rachel Carson/Ralph Nader/Betty Friedan/NOW/ERA

1970-1992

Richard Nixon/EPA, Clean Air Acts/Cesar Chavez/American Indian Movement (AIM)/Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1969/SALT I 1972/Henry Kissinger, détente/Recognition of China 1972/Revenue Sharing 1972/War Powers Act 1973/Yom Kippur War 1973/Oil Embargo 1973/Warren Burger/Watergate 1973/Geral Ford/stagflation/Jimmy Carter/Panama Canal Treaty 1978/Camp David Accord 1978/SALT II 1979/Invasion of Afghanistan 1979/Olympic Boycott 1980/Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979-1981/Ayatollah Khoumeini/Ronald Reagan/supply-side economics/Sandra Day O’Connor/Secretary of the Interior James Watt/Three Mile Island 1979/Lebanon Intervention 1982/Invasion of Grenada 1983/Nicaragua/Iran-Contra Affair/Star Wars (SDI)/Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition/Panama, General Manuel Noriega/corporate raiders/Persian Gulf War 1990-1991/Mikhail Gorbachev