US History Unit 8 HW Packet ______This is not just your homework it is also guide as a study tool for our AIMS, quizzes and Unit Tests. Understand the impact each of the terms had on other events and their connections to other events. Make sure you know the “who, what, when, where, and why” significance, causes and effects, etc. for each term and answer the main idea questions as completely as possible (this means more than a couple of sentences). ______

Chapter 15 Section 2 GI Bill World Bank Baby boom International Monetary Fund Fair Deal General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Main Idea Questions: 1. What challenges did the face after World War II? 2. Why do you think the Democrats faced problems in the politics of the postwar era?

Chapter 15 Section 3 House Un-American Activities Hollywood Ten Joseph McCarthy Committee Alger Hiss McCarthyism

Main Idea Questions: 1. What events helped increase the fear of for the American public in the late 1940’s? 2. Name some examples of efforts to fight communism in the United States in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.

Chapter 16 Section 3 Transistor Levittown Integrated Circuit Sunbelt Jonas Silk Interstate Highway System

Main Idea Questions: 1. What were some of the effects of television on American life and culture in the 1950’s? 2. What were some key features of cultural change in the 1950’s?

Chapter 17 Section 2 Jacqueline Kennedy New Frontier

Main Idea Questions: 1. Why did Kennedy propose a mission to the moon and the unmanned exploration of s pace? 2. How did the Warren Court extend individual rights and freedoms? 3. What was the purpose and conclusion of the Warren Commission?

Chapter 17 Section 3 War on Poverty Johnson Pueblo incident

Main Idea Questions: 1. Why was Lyndon Johnson well qualified to be president? 2. How did Johnson convince Congress to pass Kennedy’s programs? 3. What was the overall goal of the ? 4. Why did Johnson involve the United States in the affairs of the ?