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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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.