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Unit 4 Study Guide
U S History II (HIST-1302)
Austin Community College District
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Unit #4 Study Guide Vietnam War Early 60s Cold War Moments o o CubaBerlin Wall Prelude to war o Going to space! o o Background in VietnamUnrest in South Vietnam US Involvement in Vietnam o Agent Orange o o Gulf of Tonkin incidentTet Offensive o o My Lai MassacreBombing of Cambodia Vietnam War at home o Fall of Saigon o o Student ProtestsNew Left o o Hippie MovementElection of 1968 o o Kent State MassacrePentagon Papers Nixon and the Cold War o Chinese Détente o SALT Growth of Conservatism Pre-Nixon Conservativism o Election of 1964 Richard Nixon o Barry Goldwater o Silent Majority
o o Southern StrategyStagflation o o Oil CrisisBusing Jimmy Carter o Watergate o o Cut back social programsHuman Rights o Iranian Revolution The Eighties Ronald Reagan o o Hater of communismBarry Goldwater fan Economics o Support of religious right o o Supply-side economicsTax cuts o o DeregulationNeoliberalism Social issues o Reagan opposed major civil rights legislation o o ERA failsMore women in the workforce o o AIDS CrisisGrowth of gay rights movement Foreign policy o Overthrowing left-wing governments in Central o American and CaribbeanIran-Contra Scandal o o INF TreatyEnd of Cold War Cultural aspects o MTV
21 st Century War on Terror o 9/ o o AfghanistanIraq Bush-era domestic history o Patriot Act o o Election of 2000Immigration o o Economic declineHurricane Katrina o o Great RecessionImportant Supreme Court cases Obama o Post-racial America? o o ACAObama in the world Changes in the past decade o Increase in social media o o Rise of grassroots movementsElection of 2016 o o Right-wing populismNew Isolationism
Unit 4 Study Guide
Course: U S History II (HIST-1302)
University: Austin Community College District
