Period 8 Review
1945-1980
Consider Buying a Guide
This is a good one:
Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2016 Edition
Whatever you do, make sure you get a copy that was published no earlier than 2015 since the test has been remodeled.
Key Concept Outline
Click the link and then scroll down to Period 8:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7fMZ1AF-z8c3Zb9HOrtKFSnfF7BSnhLIsCRSxsfXRc/edit?usp=sharingGive Me Liberty! Textbook Resources
There are so many resources available on our textbook’s website. Pick a chapter at the top and see a wide variety of study resources.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty3-brief/welcome.aspx
Period 8 Flashcards
https://quizlet.com/77536711/apush-period-8-flash-cards/
Click on "Flashcards" at the top when you are ready to the vocabulary in that way.
Click on this link and watch any of these videos if you can’t remember the content about them:
- The Marshall Plan Explained
- The Homefront During WWII: NightHawks
- The Berlin Airlift Explained
- The Korean "War" For Dummies
- The Little Rock Nine Explained
- HUAC Explained
- McCarthyism
- The Cold War 1/1
- The Cold War 2/2
- The Cold War 3/3
- The Cold War 4/4
- The Truman Doctrine Explained
- The Berlin Wall Explained
- The Cuban Missile Crisis for Dummies
- Civil Rights
- The Warren Court
- The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Explained
- The Exclusionary Rule For Dummies - Mapp v Ohio
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion Explained
- The 1964 Civil Rights Act Explained
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Explained
- The Vietnam "War"
- The Great Society and Lyndon B. Johnson
- Gideon v Wainwright Explained
- Miranda vs Arizona:
- The Stonewall Riots Explained
- Watergate
- The NY Times Co. vs the United States of America
- The War Powers Resolution Explained
- The 1970's
- Roe vs Wade Explained
- Detente Explained
- Jimmy Carter Explained
- The Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 Explained
- The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Explained
- Trickle Down Economics Explained
- Iran-Contra Affair Scandal Explained
- New Jersey vs TLO Explained
- Ronald Reagan
- Hustler Magazine vs. Falwell
Elections:
1952Dwight Eisenhower
1956Dwight Eisenhower
1960John F. Kennedy
1964Lyndon B. Johnson
1968Richard Nixon
1972Richard Nixon (Gerald Ford will take over when Nixon resigns.)
1976 Jimmy Carter
1980Ronald Reagan
1984Ronald Reagan
1988George H.W. Bush