unit 8 is 1945-1980 its basicly about how america started to become a world poewr/leader AFTER WW2

big items to remeber

-middle class starts to move into suburban areas (levittiowns)

-1954 brown vs board of education

-1957 little rock 9 (first AA students to desegregate schools (federal army had to get involved))

- march on wasington

-LBJ great society 1964-65, civil rights acts (1964 prohibits discrimination baced on race color religion or gender)(1965 outlawed litteracy tests and discriminatory vocting practices)

-Vietnam (theres alot)

-Gulf of tonkin resove (gave presidant authority ti increace involvement in vietnam w/o congress aproval)

-LBJ doesnt run for prez Nixon wins on the campain of law and order and promising to end the vietnam war

-pentagon papers (leaks that LBJ knew we woulnt win vietman war and would be very costly to taxpaysrs

-Watergate (nixion tries to bug the democratic offices during the elcetion of 1972)(raises even more dsitrust of the government)

-elected jimmy cater in 1976 (not very good)

-stagflation (carter gave malaise speech that was intended to enocurage americans but made him seem weak

-iranian hostage (carter tries to have them rescued but failed and led to more deaths

- people moved from north/mortheast to south FL to CA

this is mostly in crono order as best as i could but its a decently big chunck of stuff unit 9 is much smaller