10–17% of the AP exam. Key topics: Cold War origins: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, containment policy, Korean War and limited war doctrine, Second Red Scare: HUAC, McCarthyism, Hollywood Ten, Postwar prosperity: GI Bill, suburbanization, baby boom, consumer culture, Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Civil Rights legislation: Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965), Great Society: Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, War on Poverty, Vietnam War: escalation (Gulf of Tonkin), anti-war movement, Tet Offensive, Vietnamization, Counterculture: youth movement, feminist movement (NOW, Friedan's Feminine Mystique), environmental movement, Nixon: détente, opening China, Watergate and constitutional crisis, 1970s economic stagflation and energy crisis, Black Power, American Indian Movement, Chicano movement.
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