AP U.S. History / Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
8.1 Contextualizing Period 8
Notes
Period 8 (1945–1980): the Cold War, postwar prosperity, the civil rights movement, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and social movements.
Practice
Period 8 covers about:
Postwar era.
The main foreign policy theme of Period 8:
Containment.
A major domestic theme of Period 8:
1950s–1970s.
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