Period 8 + Period 9

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  • G.I Bill

    Helped qualify veterans for financial help

  • Tan-Hartley Act

    Modified the Wagner Act of 1935 and was also known as the Labor Management Act
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    Cold War

    Global geographical conflict between the USSR and US
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    Globalization

    The increase in connectiveness of international cultures and governments
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    Baby Boom

    Post WW2 boom in birth rates
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    Second Red Scare

    Fear of communist infestation in the US during the Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

    Plan to rebuild western Europe after war

  • NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization built to help protect the US from the Soviet Union
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    Beatniks

    A social movement during the mid-20th century that was a form of counterculture and a focus on anti-materialistic lifestyles
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    Korean War

    US fought Korea to try and stop communism from spreading
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    Sunbelt

    The collection of the Southernmost states

  • Levittown

  • Operation Ajax

  • Brown v. The Board of Education

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Interstate Highway Act

  • Sputnik

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    Counterculture

  • Students for a Democratic Szociety

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    Sit-in Movement

  • Eisenhower's Farewell Address

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    Flexible Response

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Silent Spring

  • March on Washington

  • The Feminine Mystique

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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    Great Society

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Malcolm X

  • Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965

  • Black Panthers

  • Tet Offensive

  • Election of 1968

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    Vietnamization

  • Stonewall Riot

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    Détente

  • Kent State

  • Pentagon Papers

  • Equal Rights Amendment

  • Watergate

  • War Powers Act

  • Environmental Protection Agency

  • Roe v. Wade

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    Stagflation

  • Indian Self-Determination Act

  • Regents of California v. Bakke

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    Reaganomics

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    Iran-Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Breakup of the Soviet Union

  • North America Free Trade Agreement

  • Contract with America

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    Dot-Com Boom

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    War on Terror

  • Bush v. Government

  • 9/11

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    War in Afghanistan

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    Iraq War

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    Great Recession

  • Obamacare

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    Arab Spring

  • Death of Osama Bin Laden

  • Tea Party

  • Obergefell v. Hodges

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    Covid-19 Pandemic