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The emergence of nationalist movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in years following WWII
Decolonization
A cultural movement during the late 1960s associated with an alternative lifestyle based upon peace, love, and "doing your own thing"
Counterculture
Term used by the press to describe President Reagan's supply-side economic policies
Reaganomics
This case established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review—the power to determine whether or not a law or other government action is constitutional.
Marbury v. Madison
Essentially undoing Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled this time that “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites were “inherently unequal.” This case outlawed racial segregation of public schools and paved the way for the integration of other areas as well.
Brown v. Board of Education
Term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crusade during the early 1950s
McCarthyism
Between 1954 and 1969 the Warren court issued a series of decisions that expanded civil rights and individual liberties
Rights Revolution
The microprocessor helped launched a this revolution that included innovations such as personal computer, the internet, and smartphones
Digital Revolution
The court decided that the federal government only (not the states) had the right to control interstate commerce.
Gibbons v. Ogden
This decision expanded the guarantees of the Bill of Rights by ruling that the 6th Amendment right to an attorney regardless of ability to pay applies to state cases as well as federal ones.
Gideon v. Wainwright
A small but influential group of literary figures based in New York City and San Francisco in the 1950s
Beats
A feminist movement that emerged in the late 1960s focused on reproductive rights, domestic violence, and the objectification of women as sexual objects
Radical Feminists
The process by which technological, economic, political, and cultural exchanges are making the world more interconnected and interdependent
Globalization
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This case is designed to make sure that those accused of a crime know their rights before they are interrogated by police.
Miranda v. Arizona
Geopolitical belief that the fall of one nation to communism would inevitably lead to the fall of other nearby countries
Domino Theory
A booming region of 14 states, stretching from North Carolina through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California
Sun Belt
The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Tower and the Pentagon prompted President Bush to launch a concerted campaign to destroy international terrorist groups.
War on Terror
This case gave the legal green light to “separate but equal” public facilities for blacks and whites. It legitimized the Jim Crow segregation laws that would characterize racial policy for the next half-century.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court used the 4th Amendment as the basis to legalize first trimester abortion. The court ruled that states cannot outlaw abortions during that period.
Roe v. Wade
Movement of the 1960s that advocated that African Americans establish control of their economic and political lives
Black Power
Conservative Christians who opposed sexual permissiveness, the equal rights amendment, and abortion
Religious Right
Who is a weenie?
James Buchanan
The Supreme Court ruled that interning Japanese-Americans during World War II, even those who were citizens born in the U.S., was legal.
Korematsu v. US
During the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon tried to assert that his “executive privilege” made him immune from subpoena’s requesting the release of White House audio recordings. The court ruled that Nixon had no such privilege. This case had the lasting impact of asserting that even the president is not above the law.
Nixon v. US