Period 8 APUSH: PowerPoints & Lectures // AP U.S. History

Want to take your PowerPoint / Google Slides Presentations and APUSH Lectures to the next level? 13 PowerPoints and corresponding organized Lecture Outlines aligned to 2019 APUSH / AP U.S. History Standards and Topics 8.2 - 8.14!

NEW: Google Slides Versions for ALL PowerPoints included as well!

This PowerPoint Deck contains lecture slides and lecture notes that align directly with AP US History Period 8, APUSH Topics 8.2 - 8.14 (1945-1980). I've worked to make this PowerPoint informative, engaging, eye-popping, and fun!

This package comes with 13 clearly labeled PowerPoint decks with a corresponding easy-to-follow and thoroughly researched lecture outline for each topic (31 pages total).

This PowerPoint deck is comprised of 13 separate lectures and powerpoints, each sold separately as well:

• Topic 8.2 - The Cold War from 1945 to 1980 (94 slides)
• Topic 8.3 - The Red Scare (44 slides)
• Topic 8.4 - Economy After 1945 (62 slides)
• Topic 8.5 - Culture After 1945 (60 slides)
• Topic 8.6 - Early Steps in Civil Rights Movement, 1940s & 1950s (66 slides)
• Topic 8.7 - America as a World Power (99 slides)
• Topic 8.8 - The Vietnam War (77 slides)
• Topic 8.9 - The Great Society (73 slides)
• Topic 8.10 - The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (102 slides)
• Topic 8.11 - The Civil Rights Movement Expands (72 slides)
• Topic 8.12 - Youth Culture of the 1960s (47 slides)
• Topic 8.13 - Environment & Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980 (52 slides)
• Topic 8.14 - Society in Transition (58 slides)

Includes:

1. 13 separate PowerPoint decks. One for each topic.
2. Lecture Outline: A 31-page organized lecture outline with added detail, approximately 1 to 3 pages per APUSH topic

Key Content covered is listed below. Note: I've erred on the side of detail in the PPTs and lectures, but the information is presented and organized in such a manner that it can be removed (or added!) as you see fit!

8.2 Key Content Covered:

• Containment
• Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Warsaw Pact
• Mao Zedong & Communist China
• Korean War

8.3 Key Content Covered:

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• The Smith Act
• Loyalty Program
• The Alger Hiss Case
• Joseph McCarthy
• The Rosenberg Case

8.4 Key Content Covered:

• Economic Growth & Causes
• Federal Expenditures
• Technological Developments
• Baby Boom
• Expanding Consumer Culture
• TV
• Suburbanization
• Truman's Fair Deal
• GI Bill
• The "Other" America

8.5 Key Content Covered:

• Homogenization & Conformity Culture
• Corporate Life
• Women's "Place"
• Religious Revival
• Challenges to Conformity
• J.D. Salinger, William Whyte Jr., & Ralph Ellison
• The Beats
• Youth Culture
• Rock n' Roll
• Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard

8.6 Key Content Covered:

• The Warren Court
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Little Rock Nine
• Claudette Colvin
• Rosa Parks
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Emmett Till Murder

8.7 Key Content Covered:

• Eisenhower & John Foster Dulles
• Massive Retaliation
• Brinkmanship
• Arms Race
• Sputnik
• Hungarian Revolution
• U-2 Incident
• Fidel Castro
• Military-Industrial Complex
• JFK
• Space Program
• Cuba & Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Nixon
• Nixon Doctrine
• Detente & SALT
• Israel & PLO
• Jimmy Carter & Camp David Accords

8.8 Key Content Covered:

• Foreign Policy in Asia Context
• CIA intervention
• Domino Theory
• SEATO
• Vietnam Context (1945-1960)
• JFK
• Johnson & Escalation
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Guerrilla War
• Tet Offensive
• Richard Nixon
• War Powers Act
• Legacy

8.9 Key Content Covered:

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Reelection
• War on Poverty
• Medicare & Medicaid
• Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965
• Immigration Act of 1965
• Legacy of the Great Society

8.10 Key Content Covered:

• JFK & RFK
• Greensboro Sit-Ins
• Freedom Rides
• Birmingham Campaign
• Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Children's Crusade
• March on Washington
• "I Have a Dream" Speech
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Selma March
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Watts Riots
• Black Power Movement
• Black Panther Party
• Stokely Carmichael
• Malcolm X
• 1968 Assassinations

8.11 Key Content Covered:

• American Indian Rights
• Chicano Rights
• New Wave Feminism
• Roe v. Wade
• Stonewall Uprising
• Gay Rights Movement

8.12 Key Content Covered:

• Student Movements
• SDS
• Free Speech Movement
• New Left
• Weathermen
• Counterculture
• Sexual Revolution
• Vietnam Protests

8.13 Key Content Covered:

• Environmental Context
• Cuyahoga River
• Los Angeles Smog
• Silent Spring
• Rachel Carson
• The EPA
• The Clean Air Act
• The Clean Water Act
• Earth Day
• Endangered Species Act of 1973
• Yom Kippur War
• 1973 Oil Embargo
• OPEC

8.14 Key Content Covered:

• Nixon & Watergate
• Rise of the New Conservatism
• Sunbelt
• Sagebrush Rebellion
• Evangelical Christianity
• Moral Majority & Jerry Falwell
• New Right
• Ronald Reagan