Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
US History · Unit 8 · Paper 1

Period 8: 1945–1980 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 40 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 8, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
1

Long Telegram

2

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

3

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56)

4

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

5

Stonewall (1969)

6

Stagflation

7

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

8

Title IX (1972)

9

Truman fires MacArthur (1951)

10

Proposition 13 (1978)

11

Watergate

12

OPEC oil embargo (1973)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Environmental Protection Agency (1970)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Venona decrypts

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

Answer the questions about the civil rights movement.

Briefly describe ONE specific tactic civil rights activists used between 1954 and 1965.

Briefly explain ONE specific reason that tactic was effective.

Briefly explain ONE specific way the movement changed after 1965.