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| End Poverty in California |
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| Upton Sinclair's platform to better California (EPIC). Supposed to use factory property to create communes |
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| Governor of California. Taxed the wealthy heavily to "share the wealth" |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| employed people to carry out public work projects |
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| agricultural adjustment act |
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| government paid farmers to NOT grow crops. thought they should cut back amount of food in markets in order to raise prices |
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| right to collectivelt bargain; only for industrial workers, excluded agricultural workers. Eliminated yellow dog contracts and allowed people to unionize |
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| started during FDR's presidency to encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs |
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| co-founder of National Council on Negro Women. Became highest ranked black official in Roosevelts administration, civil rights leader |
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| Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) |
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| proposed by John L. Lewis to organize workers in industrial unions |
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| National Council on Negro Women |
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| co-founded by Mary McLeod Bethune. Advocates black women |
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| shut down banks for investigation. Gave executive branch power over banks |
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| head of the United Mine Workers. Told coal miners the president wanted them to join unions |
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| Farm Security Administration |
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| created to provide housing and loans to help tenant farmers become independent |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| created by the Glass-Steagall Act to ensure customer accounts through the federal government |
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| created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| a veteran of Foosevelts NY governorship. She embraced the social gospel tradition, tried to improve working conditions |
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| Mechanized cotton picking |
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| a single picker replaced 50 workers. Cut cost of harvesting a bale of cotton by $35 |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| men who planted trees, built nature trails. Required to send $25 home out of the $30 made |
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| WWI veterans who were promised a bonus and wanted it when the depression hit. THey were denied and run out of the country |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) |
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| direct assistance to people |
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| National Recovery Act (NRA) |
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| encouraged industrialists in every part of the economy to agree on codes to define fair working conditions, to set prices, and to minimize competition |
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| Civil Works Administration |
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| organized by Hopkins; put paychecks worth more than $800 million into the hands of previously jobless workers |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| started to improve standard of living. Wanted to provide electric to rural areas |
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| A new deal program the guaranteed fair treatment of workers, minimum wage, 40 hour work week |
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| photographer during depression. Pictured the tragic consequences of the Great Depression |
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| reiterated to provide workers with a decent standard of living. Wanted minimum wage and work week hours |
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| stated one has never been in a union nor will he ever be in one |
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| ran national recovery administration. Didnt want unions, only trade unions. Resulted in the Wagner Act |
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| Schechter Poultry Corp. vs US |
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| sick chicken case, said it was unconstitutional for Fair Labor Codes and that the federal state government overstepped boundaries |
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| 4 conservative justives on supreme. Voted against FDR and his New Deal Programs |
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| Done by FDR to try to circumvent check and balances in retaliation for the 4 Horsemen |
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| set production priorities and pushed for maximum output |
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| passed by Roosevelt to put Japanese Americans in internment camps with no reason |
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| got rid of Agricultural Adjustment Act; intrastate commerce |
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| in the Pittsburgh Courier, it called for victory over racial prejudice in U.S. and in WWII |
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| planted by married women at home to provide homegrown vegetables, save tin cans, and newspapers for recycling into war materials |
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| novelist who wrote "The Jungle" exposing the evils of capitalism and showed horrifying meat industry |
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| made to prohibit racial discrimination in national defense industry |
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| Mexicans beat up by American service men because they were draft dodgers. Called zoot suit because of the suits that the mexicans wore |
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| segregated part of defense council |
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| head of negro defense council |
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| black leader along with MLK |
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| governor of Florida. Started FL State Defense Council |
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| Florida State Defense Counsil |
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| headed by Spessard Holland. State defense for Florida during WWII. PLan for if Florida was invaded, organized with the motorcycle group |
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| thought people would sabotage Florida, so he set up military defense and motorcycle gangs in Florida |
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| Americans vs Japanese. Americans sank Japanese ships causing them to pull back; moral win for the US |
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| WWII idea of going through Southern Europe (Italy) because it was less fortified to get to Germany |
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| after Casa Blanca Conference. War would end if Hitler was removed, threat to Stalin |
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| encouraged women to go to work while the men were at war |
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| US trying to keep to themselves and avoid entering the war |
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| stopping of communism before it spread further |
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| sent aid to Turkey in order to try to follow with containment |
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| funding European countries. pimped money into europe making the US a player in european politics for 30 years |
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| author of containment. Came up with Domino theory |
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| US plane carrying food, fuel and necessities flown to West Berlin during blockade |
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| sent aid to Jordan in 1957 and troops to Lebanon to counter anti Western pressures on those governments |
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| buffer states. Using during WWII and soviet states |
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| leader of egypt who sought arms from communist Czechoslovakia, formed a military alliance with each other, arab nations, and recognized People's Republic of China |
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| Nasser trying to unify against the west and the US as a response to eisenhower doctrine |
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| "forgotten war" 38th parallel was instituted to border communist and democracy idea of containment |
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| mutual defense treaty with 8 communist states. Dont to keep war out of Soviet states |
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| North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) |
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| US, Canada and Western European nations. designed to counter a soviet threat to western europe |
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| secret report warning that survival of the nation required a massive military build-up and tripling the defense budget. Led to arms race |
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| line where north and south korea was divided, idea of containment |
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| first artificial earth orbiting satellite sent to space by the US |
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| accusing individuals of being communist |
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| senator who investigated anyone who looked suspicious of being communist or gay |
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| investigating anyone suspicious of being a communist |
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| Trumans idea. An oath of logalty was needed to get a government job |
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| set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of US government. Non citizens must register with the government |
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| between Nixon and Kruchev. Nixon was showing Kruchev all the appliances US had, resulted in back and forth ideology |
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| investigated anybody "suspicious" of being a communist for 2 years |
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| headed Johns Committee. Wanted a state FBI but was denied |
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| told how to find and identify gay people. Said gay was an addictive cult |
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| House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
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| where investigations for potential communists happened |
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| denied admission to UF because he was black. Eventually he got in after hiring a lawyer |
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| Committee to find communistic groups in Florida |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| made schools be integrated at "all due speed" |
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| investigator for Johns Committee |
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| promise for US to send aid to Latin American countries to achieve containment |
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| sent college kids to fight instead of troops; to become modern and create infrastructure |
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| US and Soviets slowing down war manufacturing. Idea was that if they were producing then they weren't scheming |
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| South communist Vietnamese rebels |
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| Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
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| dealing with South Vietnam |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| gave US president wide amount of power in Vietnam |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder |
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| sending more troops into Vietnam |
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| general of operations of Vietnam |
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| Spanish activist who co founed United Farm Workers |
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| National Indian Youth Council |
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| Native American Activist movement |
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| created to attack problems in cities where Indians lived. Sought to protect Indians from police harassment, secure antipoverty funds, and establish "survival schools" to teach Indian history and values |
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| activist who founded United Farm Workers with Chavez |
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| Labor union formed to join 2 groups of farmers |
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| Students for a Democratic Society |
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| Students that spoke out against things that didnt make sense; counterculture movement |
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| Rachel Carsons book that described the harmful effects of toxic chemicals |
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| Presidents Commission of the Status of Women |
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| headed by Eleanor Roosevelt, wanted equal pay for women |
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| write of "On the Open Road". His life was a huge party, counterculture movement |
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| group of people who did not want to conform; didnt believe in gender roles |
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| National Organization for Women |
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| headed by Betty Friedan, wanted to end job and pay discrimination and have men and women be equal |
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| allowed equal pay for men and women because of Presidents Commission on the status of women |
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| headed National organization for women |
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| part of the new right. thought women should stay at home and be the homemaker because it says that in the bible according to god |
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| said funds are evenly distributed based on gender. Predominately regarding sports at the university level |
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| SDS (Student for a Democratic Society) said race and alienation were the two major points for a better America |
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| hippies, grassroots movement |
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| protests about Vietnam that turned violent. Students vs National Guard |
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| in Little Rock. Eisenhower sent National Guard to enforce Brown vs Board of Education decision that schools should be integrated |
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Civil Rights Act
1957,1960,1964,1968 |
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| voting rights, outlawed segregation, gave blacks rights. Ended discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations |
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| banned literacy tests and authorized federal intervention to ensure access to the voting booth |
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| a 14 year old black boy who was lynched by white boys for allegedly whistling at a white woman |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| organized picketing and sit-ins against Jim Crow restaurants and theatres |
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| refused to give up her bus seat for a white person; started Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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| Montgomery Improvement Association |
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| organized a bus boycott because of Rosa Parks |
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| whites and blacks joined together to march for jobs and freedom |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| headed by MLK; coordinated local protests against segregation and disfranchisement |
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| group who did not trust the police; armed their members to defend themselves against police brutality |
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| organized Black Panther party; organized and provided for the community |
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| advocated non violent resistance. Black leader who was made big by white magazines |
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| part of NAACP, wanted blacks to have the right to vote; assassinated |
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| organized Black Panther party; organized and provided for the community, promoted Black Heritage |
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| group organized to integrate interstate transportation in the south |
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| Civil rights. Police turned violent during march from Selma to Montgomery. National guard was called in to protect marchers |
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| Match for voting rights for blacks; MLK set up a 45 mile march from Selma to Montgomery |
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| black man who was allowed to enroll in the all white University of Mississippi |
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| Civil rights riot in LA; a black yelled how blacks have no rights just like in Selma, caused a riot with police resulting in deaths and injuries |
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| "Black Muslim", realized all colored Muslims come together as one; shot and killed |
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| grassroots movement for women to be equal to men; phyllis schalfly was heavily involved |
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| ultra conservative group, part of the New right |
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| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education |
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| bussing for school integration |
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| Regents of the university of california vs Bakke |
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| affirmative action, college admissions |
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| students were bused to schools in order to integrate schools |
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| bussed kids into school, but they were immediately fought when they got there |
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| people believed the constitution says what it says; no interpretation |
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| mutual assured destruction; Nixons idea that nobody will win in atomic war |
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| Nixon scandal that caused him to give up his position as president in 1974 |
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| conservative president who continued with the great society programs; promoted individualism and reliance on the market and private enterprise rather than government. New conservatives came about during his presidency (conservatives and anticommunists) |
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| took over nixons presidency when he gave it up after watergate scandal |
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| democratic president in between Nixon and Reagan. Involved in the Middle East. Sent the US into an economic downturn because of his social programs and raising taxes |
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| tends to depend more on the government |
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| tends to turn more toward private enterprise rather that government; want strong military |
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| Carter trying to find solutions with Palestinians and Israelis |
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| US went in to Iran and failed. Shiite revolution caused soviets to invade afghanistan |
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| republican president who built up US military and cut back on Civil Rights and New Deal programs; built up arsenal to stop communism by out spending Soviet Union, credited for winning the Cold War |
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| cut down taxes so money would trickle down to the poor |
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| Christian right along with conservative views |
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| Young Upwardly Mobile People. Yippies turned into Yuppies |
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| Economic Recovery Tax Act |
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| reduced individuals taxes in order to achieve economic wealth |
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| Reagan's term for the Soviet Union |
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| Reagan administration secretly sold arms to Iran in order to secure the release of hostages held by Iranian terrorist groups |
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