APUSH Terms for Chapters 34-37

Chapter 34—                                  ____ / 46

“New Frontiers: Politics & Social Change in the 1960s”

(pp. 1226-1264)

 

Introduction:

The chapter covers the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, including social and economic developments, the civil rights revolution, and the increase involvement of the United States in Vietnam.

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Terms:

• John F. Kennedy

(35^th President)-

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• New Frontier-
• Peace Corps-
• Warren Court- 
• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963-
• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966-
• Martin Luther King, Jr.-
• Montgomery Bus Boycott-
• sit-in-
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)-
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)-
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)-

 

• freedom riders-
• James H. Meredith-
• Eugene “Bull” Connor-
• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”-
• George C. Wallace-
• March on Washington-
• Bay of Pigs- 
• Cuban Missile Crisis-
• Ngo Dinh Diem-
• Lee Harvey Oswald-
• Lyndon B. Johnson

(36^th President)-

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• “War on Poverty”-
• Great Society-
• Barry Goldwater-
• The Conscience of a Conservative-
• Medicare-
• Medicaid-
• Robert C. Weaver-

 

• Immigration Act of 1965-
• Civil Rights Act of 1964-
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-
• Selma to Montgomery March-
• Voting Rights Act of 1965-
• Stokely Carmichael-
• Black Power-
• Black Panther Party-
• Malcolm X-
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution-
• Rolling Thunder-
• William C. Westmoreland-
• Tet Offensive-
• Robert F. Kennedy-
• Hubert H. Humphrey-
• silent majority-

 

Chapter 35—                                  ____ / 43

“Rebellion & Reaction in the 1960s & 1970s”

(pp. 1266-1311)

 

Introduction:

This chapter describes the youth revolt of the late 1960s, including the New left and the counterculture, and traces the gains made by women and ethnic minorities.  The chapter also focuses on Richard M. Nixon’s foreign and domestic affairs, stressing the conflict in Vietnam, stagflation, and Watergate.  In addition, the domestic and foreign policies of the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter administrations will be discussed.

 

Terms-

• New Left-
• Students for a Democratic Society-
• Free Speech Movement-
• Weathermen-
• counterculture-
• hippies-
• Woodstock Music Festival-
• Betty Friedan-
• The Feminist Mystique-
• National Organization of Women (NOW)-
• Title IX-
• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)-
• Roe v. Wade, 1973-
  • Chicano-
• Cesar Chavez-
  • United Farm Workers-
  • American Indian Movement-
  • Gay Liberation Front-
  • Silent Majority-
  • Henry Kissinger-
  • Vietnamization-
  • draft lottery-
  • Kent State shootings-
  • Southern Strategy- 
  • Bakke v. Board of Regent, 1978-
  • Neil Armstrong-
  • New Federalism-
  • Twenty-Fifth Amendment-
  • stagflation-
  • Silent Spring- 
  • Rachel Carson-
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-
  • Oil Producing Exporting Countries (OPEC)-
  • George Wallace-
  • George S. McGovern-
  • Watergate Scandal-
  • Saturday Nigh Massacre-
  • Gerald Ford

(38^th President)-

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• War Powers Act-
• Jimmy Carter-

(39^th President)-

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• Camp David Accords-
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)-
• Ayatollah Khomeini-

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Chapter 36—                                  ____ / 26

“A Conservative Insurgency”

(pp. 1313-1341)

 

Introduction:

The chapter examines the domestic and foreign policy under the conservative leadership of Ronald W. Reagan and George H.W. Bush. 

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Terms:

• Ronald Reagan

(40^th President)-

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• Moral Majority -
• Phyllis Schlafly-
• Reaganomics-
• Economic Recovery Tax Act-
• Teflon Presidency-
• Professional Air Traffic Controllers-
  • Sandra Day O’Connor-
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)-
  • Contras-
  • Grenada- 
  • Walter Mondale-
  • Tax Reform Act of 1986-
  • Iran-Contra Affair-
  • Oliver North-
  • AIDS-
  • Michael Dukakis
  • George H.W. Bush

(41^st President)-

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• Tiananmen Square- 
• Perestroika-
• Glasnost-
• Boris Yeltsin-
• Manuel Noriega-
• Saddam Hussein-
• Desert Shield-
• Desert Strom-

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Chapter 37—                                  ____ / 41

“Triumph & Tragedy: America at the Turn of the Century”

(pp. 1342-1390)

 

Introduction:

The chapter describes recent demographic trends and covers the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. 

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Terms:

• Sunbelt- 
• postindustrial-
• Proposition 187-
• Bill Gates-
• Pat Robertson-
• Christian Coalition-
• downsizing-
• Clarence Thomas-
• Bill Clinton

(42^nd President)-

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• Albert Gore, Jr.-
• H. Ross Perot-
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-
• Siege at Waco-
• “Contract with America”-

 

• Newt Gingrich-
• Bob Dole-
• Whitewater Development Corporation-
• Kenneth Starr-
• ethnic cleansing-
• Kosovo-
• globalization-
• George W. Bush

     (43^rd President)-

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• Ralph Nader-
• Bush v. Gore (2001)
• Richard Cheney-
• No Child Left Behind Act of 2002-
• Al-Qaeda-
• Osama bin Laden-
• Taliban-

 

• Operation Enduring Freedom-
• Office of Homeland Security-
• PATRIOT Act of 2002-
• preemptive military action-
• weapons of mass destruction-
• Saddam Hussein-
• Operation Iraqi Freedom-
• John Kerry-
• John Roberts-
• Hurricane Katrina-
• Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)-
• global warming-