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Spilkin U.S History: Unit 8 Study Guide Chapter 19 Section 1: Postwar America Terms and Names to Know GI Bill of Rights Suburb Harry S. Truman Dixiecrat Fair Deal Concepts to Understand 1. What were three effects of the end of World War II on American society? 2. What were some issues Truman fought for? 3. What two important civil rights actions occurred during Eisenhower’s presidency? Chapter 19 Section 2: The American Dream in the Fifties Terms and Names to Know Conglomerates Planned obsolescence Franchise Baby boom Dr. Jonas Salk Consumerism Concepts to Understand 1. 2. 3. 4. What changes occurred in the American work force and workplace in the 1950s? What was life like in the suburbs in the 1950s? How did cars change American life? How was consumerism encouraged in the 1950s? Chapter 19 Section 3: Popular Culture Terms to Know Mass media Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Beat movement Rock ‘n’ roll jazz Concepts to Understand 1. Was the picture of America portrayed on television accurate? 2. How did the beat movement criticize mainstream culture? 3. How did African Americans influence the entertainment industry of the 1950s? Spilkin Chapter 20 Section 1: Kennedy and the Cold War Terms and Names to Know John F. Kennedy Limited Test Ban Treaty Flexible response Fidel Castro Berlin Wall Hot line Concepts to Understand 1. What two factors helped Kennedy win the 1960 presidential election? 2. Name the two Cuban crises that the Kennedy administration faced. 3. Name two ways the U.S. and Soviet Union worked to ease tensions between them. Chapter 20 Section 2: The New Frontier Terms and Names to Know New Frontier Mandate Peace Corps Alliance for Progress Warren Commission Concepts to Understand 1. Name two successful programs of the Kennedy administration. 2. What did the Warren Commission determine? Chapter 20 Section 3: The Great Society Terms and Names to Know Lyndon Baines Johnson Warren Court Economic Opportunity Act reapportionment Great Society Medicare and Medicaid Immigration Act of 1965 Concepts to Understand 1. Name two programs created by the Economic Opportunity Act. 2. Name one result of the Great Society and one result of the Warren Court. 3. How did the Great Society affect the size of the federal government? Spilkin Chapter 20 Section 1: Taking on Segregation Terms and Names to Know Thurgood Marshall Brown v. Board of Education Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Sit-in Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLF) Concepts to Understand 1. Name two ways in which World War II helped set the stage for the civil rights movement. 2. What did the Supreme Court rule about separate schools for whites and blacks? 3. Name two places that African Americans targeted for racial desegregation. Chapter 21 Section 2: The Triumphs of a Crusade Terms and Names to Know Freedom riders James Meredith Civil Rights Act of 1964 Freedom Summer Fannie Lou Hamer Voting Rights Act of 1965 Concepts to Understand 1. 2. 3. 4. Name two ways the government tried to help the freedom riders. What was the outcome of the demonstrations in Birmingham? Name two things the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did. Name two states where civil rights workers tried to register blacks to vote. Chapter 21 Section 3: Challenges and Changes in the Movement Terms and Names to Know De facto segregation Black Power De jure segregation Black Panthers Malcolm X Nation of Islam Kerner Commission Civil Rights Act of 1968 Stokely Carmichael Affirmative action Concepts to Understand 1. 2. 3. 4. Name two problems African Americans in the North faced. Name two new civil rights leaders. Name two of the nation’s leaders killed in 1968. Name one goal the civil rights movement achieved and one problem that remained.