military-industrial complex
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
nonviolent direct action
New Look
French involvement in Vietnam
Dien Bien Phu
Bay of Pigs
support for military dictatorships
John F. Kennedy
Peace Corps
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin Wall
nuclear missiles in Cuba
Highway Act of 1956
Rock 'n' roll music
other-directed conformists
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Brown v. Board of Education
Earl Warren
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
new conservatism
Barry Goldwater
National Liberation Front
flexible response
Judeo-Christian tradition
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile crisis
Elvis Presley
real wages in the 1950s
tax cuts
Sputnik
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Latin America
outlawed segregation
counterculture
Grateful Dead
Woodstock
LSD
Watts Riots
Freedom Summer
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Act of 1970
Resources Recovery Act of 1970
Pesticides Control Act of 1972
Richard Nixon
Great Society
unproductive social experiments
Civil Rights Act of 1964
resignation
Head Start
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Rolling Thunder
Malcolm X
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
body count of enemy dead
Pentagon Papers
Vietnam War
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vietnamization
antiwar movement
burning draft cards
black power
Kent State University
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Election of 1968
inflation
unemployment
stagflation
federal spending
social welfare programs
New Right
conservatives vs liberals
Watergate
Jimmy Carter
Christian values
Iranian hostage crisis
domestic energy production
supply-side economics
End of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin Wall (and Eastern European communism)
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Afghanistan
human rights
affirmative action programs
Panama Canal
worldwide shortages of oil
Religious Right
Sandra Day O'Connor
Geraldine Ferraro