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AP US History
Unit 8
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AP US History Unit 8 Vocabulary
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Unit 8 – The Postwar Period and Cold War, 1945–1980
Topics
8.1 Context
8.2 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
8.3 The Red Scare
8.4 Economy after 1945
8.5 Culture after 1945
8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
8.7 America as a World Power
8.8 The Vietnam War
8.9 The Great Society
8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
8.11 The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
8.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s
8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources
8.14 Society in Transition
8.15 Multiple Choice Questions
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