Terms
Chapter 29
American History 202

highlights of the 1960s
•	containment of communism still directed nation’s foreign policy
•	civil rights issues/rights for African-Americans
•	various movements with specific agendas
        	student movements
        	anti-Vietnam War movement
        	women’s rights movement	
        	gay rights movement
        	environmental movement
•	economy continued its peaks and valleys
•	increase in crime and violence largely due to protest movements
•	concern over political corruption
court cases that symbolized the liberal reforms of the Warren Court
1963	Gideon v. Wainwright
1962    Engel v. Vitale
1964    Griswold v. Connecticut
1966   Miranda v. Arizona

Earl Warren
Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Little Rock, Arkansas
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Congress of Racial Equality
Malcolm X
“Black Power”
Freedom Riders
march on Washington
Kennedy’s assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
      Committee
Civil Rights Act of 1964

Terms
Chapters 30-32
American History 202

four freedoms
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Vietcong
Kent State
Ho Chi Minh
domino theory 
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Maddox
C. Turner Joy
escalation
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
escalation
Operation Rolling Thunder
General William
    Westmoreland
baby-boomers (Vietnam era)
body count
napalm
white phosphorous
cluster bombs
Agent Orange
hawks and doves
inflation
Tet Offensive – Jan. 30, 1968
fragging
Walter Cronkite
Lt. William Calley
My Lai Massacre
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
   assassination
James Earl Ray – MLK’s
   assassin
Sen. Robert Kennedy,
   assassination
Sirhan Sirhan – RK’s assassin
Richard Nixon
Silent Majority
Henry Kissinger, 
    National Security Advisor
Nixon Document
China
Leonid Brezhnev
Strategic Arms Limitation
    Treaty (SALT I, SALT II)
United States v. Jefferson
    County Board of Education
Paris Peace Treaty
Cesar Chavez
The Feminine Mystique, 
    Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
National Organization for
    Women (NOW)
feminist movement
affirmative action
bra-burners
Roe v. Wade
Ralph Nader
Nader’s Raiders
Highway Safety Act
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Closing Circle, Barry
    Commoner
environmental movement
Environmental Protection
   Agency  (EPA)
Earth Day
Pentagon Papers
Watergate
Nixon’s resignation, 
   August 9, 1974
Gerald Ford
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Nixon’s pardon
War Powers Act
Freedom of Information Act
Yom Kippur War
détente
Organization of Petroleum
    Exporting Countries
    (OPEC)
Jimmy Carter’s election - 1976
Panama Canal
Camp David Accords
Afghanistan
M*A*S*H
Three Mile Island
The Iranian Crisis
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
“Great Satan”
Election of 1980 (Reagan v.
    Carter)
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Moral Majority
narcissism
me generation
conservatism
Star Wars (not the movie)
national debt
supply-side economics
biogenetic engineering
outsourcing
Lebanon
Iran-Contra Affair
Muammar al-Qadhafi/Libya
terrorist attacks in the 1980s
Lt. Col. Oliver North
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
peristroika
glasnost
fall of communism
Boris Yeltsin
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty  (START)
Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
Operation Desert Storm
START II
AIDS
Los Angeles Riots – 1991
Election of 1992 – Bill Clinton
Whitewater
Somalia
Bosnia/Croatia
Haiti
North American Free Trade
    Agreement (NAFTA)
Monica Lewinsky
attempted impeachment of  Clinton
Oklahoma City Bombing
(April 19, 1995)
2000 presidential election
Al Gore (Dem.) 
George W. Bush (Rep.)
Florida’s vote
Bush v. Gore
Supreme Court’s decision
September 11, 2001
al Qaeda
mujahideen
terrorism
Osama bin Laden
“No Child Left Behind”
“faith-based initiatives”
Kyoto Protocol
Afghanistan
Taliban
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
USA PATRIOT ACT
doctrine of preemption
Shi’ite/Sunni/Kurd