1. APUSH UNIT 8

2. Themes to Unit 8
Cold War / Containment / United Nations Civil Rights Lyndon Johnson Great Society Korean Conflict Vietnam War Sun Belt Supreme Court Decisions Post War Economic Growth

3. Key Terms for Unit 8
Soviet Union
Communist Ideology
Mutual Coexistence (Détente)
Nationalist Movements (Asia, Africa, Mid-East)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act; Voting Rights Act
Feminist, Gay, Lesbian Activists
Latino, American Indian, Asian Americans

4. Key Terms Continued
Suburbs
Evangelical Christian Churches/ Organizations
Religious Conservatives

5. The American Farmer, 1940–1993

6. Population Increase, 1950–2000 The Growth of the Sunbelt

7. Growth of the Suburbs 1940-60/ and White Flight Begins

8. The UN Holds Its First Session

9. Churchill and the Iron Curtain Speech

10. North invades South in June 1950 and gains land quickly

11. MacArthur’s Ticker Tape Parade in 1951

12. Conflict ends where it began 3 years earlier

13. The Television Revolution

14. McCarthy Making Accusations

15. 1954 to 1964

16. “The Problem We All Live With”
The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school integration. The painting depicts a young African American girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.

17. Main US Highways, – 1970

18. Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP, 1950 - 1997

19. The Race is On

20. “The Best and the Brightest”

21. The Cuban Missile Crisis

22. How close did we get?

23. Birmingham, Alabama---T.V. Changes everything

24. Unconscious in Selma, Alabama 1965

25. The Rise of the African-American Vote, 1940-1976

26. Newark, NJ 1967

28. US Battle Deaths in Vietnam

29. Napalm Bombing

30. Tet Offensive Changes Everything

31. “I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home.” Lyndon Johnson

32. My Lai Massacre 1968

33. Kent State

34. Pro-Affirmative Action

35. Anti-Affirmative Action

36. Gasoline Crisis of the 1970s

37. US Hostages in Iran

38. Ronald Reagan