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What were the causes and effects of the Baby Boom?
Causes: End of WWII, economic prosperity. Effects: Increased demand for education, housing, and suburban development; counterculture movement.
What were the causes and effects of the Cold War?
Causes: Ideological differences between the U.S. and USSR. Effects: Proxy wars, arms race, domestic anti-communism.
What were the causes and effects of the Civil Rights Movement?
Causes: Racial segregation and discrimination. Effects: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What were the causes and effects of the Anti-War Movement?
Causes: Opposition to the Vietnam War and other conflicts. Effects: Shift in public opinion, U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
What were the causes and effects of Post-World War II economic boom?
Causes: U.S. emerged as dominant economic power. Effects: Rise of the service sector, growth of the middle class, increase in multinational corporations.
What were the causes and effects of the rise of multinational corporations?
Causes: Use of new technologies. Effects: Domination of the global economy.
What were the causes and effects of the second wave of feminism?
Causes: Dissatisfaction with traditional gender roles. Effects: Increased awareness of gender inequality, challenges to traditional norms.
What were the causes and effects of the Counterculture of the 1960s?
Causes: Civil rights movement, anti-war movement, sexual revolution. Effects: Rejection of mainstream values, changes in music and fashion.
What were the causes and effects of the increased role of the federal government?
Causes: Desire to promote economic growth and stability. Effects: Implementation of policies and programs, such as the Marshall Plan.
What were the causes and effects of the rise of the service sector?
Causes: Post-World War II economic boom. Effects: Growth of the middle class.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
A prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement, advocating for nonviolent resistance.
Who was Betty Friedan?
Author of 'The Feminine Mystique,' a key figure in the second wave of feminism.
Who was Audre Lorde?
A writer and civil rights activist regarded as the mother of Intersectional Feminism.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
A Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. He is best known for alleging that large numbers of communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers were inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.
Who was Malcolm X?
An African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his staunch advocacy for the rights of Black people and has been credited with raising the self-esteem of Black Americans.
Who was Rosa Parks?
An American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
A Trinidadian-American black activist best known for leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. He later became a prominent member of the Black Panther Party.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
An American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962.
Who was Dolores Huerta?
An American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962.
What was Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
A Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Legislation that banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Legislation that ensured voting rights for African Americans and other minorities.
What was the Women's Strike for Equality (1970)?
A large demonstration organized by NOW on the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage.
What was the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam (1969)?
A large-scale protest against the Vietnam War involving hundreds of thousands of people.
What was the Pentagon Papers case (1971)?
The leaking of classified U.S. government documents about the Vietnam War to the press.
What was the US invasion of Cambodia (1970)?
A military campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread protests on college campuses across the country.
What was the Marshall Plan?
A U.S. program providing economic assistance to Western Europe after World War II.
What was the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
It granted American women the right to vote, a right known as woman suffrage.
What was the Korean War?
A war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953, with major participants including the United States and China.