Key Terms

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Throughout this course you will encounter many historical figures, important events, ideas and concepts. You should be able to identify and give the historical significane of the key people, events, and concepts listed below.

These key terms are drawn from lectures and from the textbook. These terms will be covered on the Unit 4 exam.

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PEOPLE

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
Emmett Till
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Axis powers
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Council)
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee)

 

EVENTS

Zoot Suit Riots
D-Day
Double V Campaign
Marshall Plan
Cuban Missile Crisis
Freedom Summer
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Rides
March on Washington

 

CONCEPTS

Fascism
Four Freedoms
Truman Doctrine



LAWS AND COURT CASES

Executive Order 9066
Brown v Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

 

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