ZOO Review

US History Standard 8Contemporary History

Keys to Civil Rights (USHC-8.1)

• Martin Luther King, Jr.• Stokley Carmichael (Black

Power) • Thurgood Marshall• Rosa Parks• Black Panthers• Malcolm X (Nation of Islam)• Brown v. Board of Education• Sit-ins• Montgomery Bus Boycott• Little Rock Nine

• SNCC• Southern Christian

Leadership Conference• Freedom Riders• James Meredith• Civil Rights Act of 1964• Voting Rights Act of 1965• Civil Rights Act of 1968• Freedom Summer• Affirmative Action

Key Social and Economic Policies of Johnson and Nixon (USHC-8.2)

Lyndon B. Johnson• Great Society• Medicare• Medicaid• Immigration Act of 1965• Economic Opportunity Act• Elementary and Secondary

Education Act• Water Quality Act• Clean Air Act of 1965• Air Quality Act

Richard Nixon• New Federalism• Revenue Sharing• Family Assistance Plan• Environmental

Protection Agency• Clean Air Act of 1970• Endangered Species Act

Vietnam War (USHC-8.3)

Causes of the War• Ho Chi Minh• Vietminh

(Vietcong)• Domino Theory• Dien Bien Phu• Geneva Accords• Ngo Dinh Diem• Ho Chi Minh

Trail• Tonkin Gulf

Resolution

Effects of the War• Hawks and Doves• Credibility Gap• Draft• Kent State University

Shootings• Pentagon Papers• War Powers Act• New Left• Students for a

Democratic Society• Free Speech

Movement

During the War• General William

Westmoreland• Operation Rolling

Thunder• Search-and-

Destroy• Winning the

Hearts and Minds• Tet Offensive• Vietnamization• My Lai Massacre• Televised Warfare

Key Events in Liberalism and Conservatism(USHC-8.4)

Supreme Court Cases• Mapp v. Ohio• Gideon v.

Wainwright• Escobedo v. Illinois• Miranda v. Arizona• Roe v. Wade• Regents of the

University of California v. Bakke

• Webster v. Reproductive Health Care Services

Social and Cultural Changes

• Counterculture• Women’s Liberation

Movement• Civil Rights

Movement• Hispanic Civil Rights

Movement• Native American

Activism• Environmental

Movement

Reagan’s Economic and Social Policies

• Reaganomics• Supply-Side

Economics• Deregulation• Appointment of

Sandra Day O’Conner• Scaling back on

entitlement programs

Key Political and Economic Issues 1970 to the 2000s (USHC-8.5)Economic

• Increased dependence on foreign oil

• Stagflation• Globalization• NAFTA• WTO• GATT• Increased wealth gap• Increased national debt• Supply-side economics• Reaganomics

Political• Watergate• Resignation of Nixon• Impeachment of Clinton• 2000 Election • Election of Obama• Immigration control• Health Care reform• Education reform

Key Foreign Affairs in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s (USHC-8.6)

• Détente• SALT I• End of Vietnam War• Camp David Accords• Iranian Revolution and

Hostages• INF Treaty• SDI• Iran-Contra Affair

• End of the Cold War• Fall of the Berlin Wall• Persian Gulf War (Operation

Desert Storm)• First World Trade Bombing• Involvement with and the

advancement of the European Union

• 9-11• War in Afghanistan• War in Iraq