Unit 9: Cold War & Civil Rights 2022-2023

President Truman’s liberal domestic agenda that included expanded civil rights and national health insurance; largely limited by a more conservative Congress

• Fair Deal

• Voting Rights act of 1965

• Square Deal

• New Deal

foreign policy victory for President Carter in which Egypt became the first Arab-Muslim country in the Middle East to recognize Israel as a country

• Fall of Saigon

• War Powers Act

• Domino Theory (Effect)

• Camp David Accords

law that gave returning veterans college tuition and low-interest home loans, which helped the economy, including the growth of suburbs

• Federal Highway Act

• Voting Rights act of 1964

• GI Bill

• Detente

law that created a national roadway system; built due to increasing role of cars; also reflected an increasing dependency on foreign oil

• Federal Highway Act

• GI BIll

• Great Society

• Brown V. Board of Ed

Cold War competition in space exploration, missile technology, and world image; sparked by the Soviet launch of Sputnik and later won by United States

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Space Race

• Brown V. Board Education

• Great Society

As stated in Eisenhower's Farewell Address, he warned that there was too much money spent on armed forces, which is dangerous.

• Kent State Massacre

• Domino Theory

• Military Industrial Complex

• Great Society

event that was the high point of Cold War tension occurred over Soviet nuclear weapons near the United States and nearly resulted in nuclear war

• War Powers Act

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Domino Theory

• Great Society

Supreme Court ruling that ended school segregation and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson; challenged in events regarding the Little Rock Nine and James Meredith

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Camp David Accords

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

gave federal government power to stop segregation in public places; passed after the MLK-led Birmingham campaign and March on Washington

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 26th Amendment

• Great Society

• War Powers Act

gave federal government power to protect black suffrage from discrimination; passed after the MLK-led Selma march

• Domino Theory (Effect)

• Kent State Massacre

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• War Powers Act