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| Alliances w/ non-communist countries |
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Soviet Unions "satellite" countries
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| Winston Churchill speech; nickname of USSR |
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founded the idea of "containment"
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| Will support ANY country fight communism |
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| form of economic containment; gives $3 billion to rebuild Europe following WWII |
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| wanted to resupply Berlin; USSR cut road connection to Berlin; forces Stalin to reopen roads |
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| Creates CIA; Creates Sec. of Defense; Makes Joint-Chief of staff permanent position; Creates National Security council |
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formalizes alliance w/ Allies (U.S);
First Alliance since Amer. Rev. |
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| gains control of China; forms communist China government |
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| "Blueprint of cold war"; wanted large military buildup; Paul Nitze= head of National Security Council |
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| Douglas MacArthur leads U.S. troops; Turning point in cold war; MacArthur asked to nuke N.K.(refused by pres.); both agree to armistance |
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| "Military Industrial Complex" |
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| wanted more military/business relations |
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| wanted advanced warfare weapons; Eisenhower backed; increase nukes, increase NASA spending; "Massive Retaliation" strategy |
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| Nikita Khurshev=leader of USSR; wanted Russia to revert to "True" form of Communism ("Destalinization"); USSR puts down rebellion |
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| Egypt pres. siezes control of Suez (U.S. pressured to stop trade w/ China); U.K./France/Israel attack to reopen canal |
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| Soviet space satellite; sparked creation of NASA; Sparks "space race" |
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| gains control of Cuba; begins trade w/ Soviet Union |
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| Cuban rebels try to overthrow Fidel regime; U.S. secretly backed; Failed because of no air support/Fidel knew of raid; Kennedy's biggest blunder |
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| Soviets supply cuba w/ nukes; Kennedy issues Naval Quarantine on offensive military weapons; Khurshev removes nukes from Cuba/U.S. removes missiles from Turkey |
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| period of relaxation of tensions between Soviet/U.S. |
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| both U.S./USSR agree to limit offensive missiles |
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| testing of military weapons must be underground |
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| troops begin to demobilize; gives troops free education; gives veterans low interest loans; helped stop flood of job market |
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| investigates communist supporters in U.S.; Kennedy backed; most famous case= Julius/Ethel Rosenburg |
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| "Second Red Scare/"McCarthyism"; claims to have large list of communists in US; loses pop. in Army hearing(accues American Hero's of being communist) |
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| first rep. to gain south vote; pro nukes/airpower; "Hidden Hand" presidency |
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| white middle class America; book explains growth in private sectors of America |
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| creation of suburbs; encouraged vetreans to buy houses(cheap); Bill Levit= founder |
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| first of rock n' roll era |
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| French youth movement; famous supporters= Allen Ginsburg/JAck Kerouac; first to fight conformity; pro-drug use |
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| increase in college women; ideal women was still housewife |
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| connects suburbs to city; roads also served as emergency bomber runways |
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| W.E.B. Dubois=founder; white/black members; challenged laws in court; wanted anti-lyching/anti jim crow laws |
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| Marcus Garvey= founder; "Black is Beautiful" slogan; pushed for blacks to migrate back to Africa; deported back to Caribbean |
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| sparked by Langston Hughes; large accpetance to black culture |
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| outlaws segregration; gave no timeline to end segregration |
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| formed in wake of Brown decision; beleived in "massive resistance"=keeping schools white only |
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| states Brown V. BOE is wrong; wanted case overturned |
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| The Little Rock 9; gov. calls national guard to stop intergration of school; Forces Eisenhower to send 101 airborne to segregrate school; public schools close and begins large creation of private school |
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| busy boycott(Rosa Parks); earliest MLK jr. movement; wanted Courteous drivers/first come first serve seating/ black bus drivers for black communiteis |
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| founder=MLK jr.; wanted to inform people of protest/focues on public action(protest)/political arm of black chruch/ability to control black movement |
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| wanted more freedom than SCLC; no head leader; creation of sit-ins |
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| stops univ. of Alabama from becoming intergrated; famous speech= Segregation forever; removed from office for defying fed. order |
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| JFK v. Nixon; Televised debates(JFK gains support); JFK wins and appoints GREAT cabinet |
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| assasiantes JFK; killed by Jack Ruby while in police custody |
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| wanted to end conspiracy surrounding JFK death; states Oswald was solo shooter |
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| "Johnson Treatment"; wanted to continue New Deal; "Great Society"; gains pres. after JFK death |
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| Lyndon Johnson plan to help ALL US citizens |
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| creates job corps(trains unemployed); protected Head Start program(helps disadvantaged children); VISTA(send college kids to poor areas to volunteer) |
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| gives aid to elderly/poor; medical side to SS |
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| ends ALL regualtions on immigration |
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| black radical; orignally support of Nation of Islam; later revert to "true" Islam and becomes less radical; despises MLK jr. movement; |
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| founder= Elijah Muhammed; thought whites were crazy; wanted race seperation |
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| black power movement; beleif in black self defense; proposed 10 point plan |
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| Black panther movement idea; wanted end of conscription/better housing and education/trial by peers/realses blacks from jail/no white business in black communites |
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| leader of SLCL; able to work w/ whites unlike Malcolm X; killed by James Earl Ray; death= end of civil rights era |
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| Eisenhower passed; creates civil rights section in justice department/fed. civ. rights commission |
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| prevents states from issuing poll taxes on fed. elections |
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| Eisenhower; fed. gov. can investigate local voting rights and issues laws in punishment |
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| "Great Society"; prevents discrimination in public areas; no race discrimination in job hiring |
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| Voting Rights act of 1965 |
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| allows fed. workers in polling stations where racism occurs; outlaws ALL poll taxes/literacy tests; allows gov. to send in workers where >50% minority registered voters |
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| "Great Society"; provides protection to civil rights workers; Fair housing commericals |
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| way of desegrating schools; buses diff. races to schools to intergrate school; disliked by many |
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| Helps ALL race/genders; Johnson's plan but Nixon expanded; point scale on standard testing(hurt asian men the most) |
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| sues cause of denial to med. school; court rules support for affimative action/no quota system |
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| Declares north vietnam independent; begins to attack south vietnam |
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| 2 US ships are supposably attacked off coast of vietnam; Lyndon johnson recivies "blank check" for vietnam; |
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| sit and debates about Vietnam War; protests against draft; large faculty/student support |
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| Viet cong suprise attack on US embassy; Walter Cronkite claims war is "unwinnable" |
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| most contest election; Nixon v. Wallace; Wallace=pro-segreation/Nixon="silent majority"; Nixon wants end of war (Peace with Honor) |
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| protestors gathered at democartic convention; creation of "street theather"; Johnsons VP elected which sparked protesting |
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| Students for Democratic Society |
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| part of New Left; college kid movement; Port Huron statement= questions the lose of individual rights |
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| Mario Savio= founder; focused on campus issues(no scantron/smaller class sizes/unneeded classes);PART OF NEW LEFT |
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| author of "Silent Spring"; claims DDt is harmful; creation of earth day |
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| mainly white upper class; Woodstock Music Festival= highlight of hippie era |
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| author of "Female Mystique"; shows "desperate housewife" problem |
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| National Organization for Women |
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| first pres.=Betty Friedman; wanted job equality; founded on belief of Friedmans book |
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| part of General Election Act; Univ. must accept/intergrate women; equal # of male/female sports |
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| Alice paul pushed for in 20's; loses by 3 states |
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| Against feminist movement(STOP-ERA); argues amendment will allow same sex marriage/legalize abortion/end mothers day/women can be drafted |
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| Nixon/Kissinger plan; 3 part plan; 1) south vietnam takes over fighting/aruges against draft(replaces draft w/ lottery system)/Withdraw US troops from Vietnam |
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| Nixon wanted to bomb trails used by Viet Cong; thought it would end Vietnam War; |
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| protest against Nixon's plan(Vietnamization); Ohio nat. guard open fires on protestors |
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| ends US involvemnt in Vietnam; Communist gains control of south |
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| Nixon opens realtions w/ China; Nixons "crowning" achievment; used to add pressure on USSR(Arms control pacts); gains Nixon his reelection |
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| 5 men from CRP(Nixon's election commitee); place wire taps on democrats phones; Nixon particapted in cover-up |
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| forces Nixon to release taped memos; no incrimating evidence(Nixon sec. deleted 18 mins of tape); begins Nixon impeachment |
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| gains pres. after Nixon resigns; pardons Nixon(disliked by public) |
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| limits pres. power to send troops overseas; only send troops for 60 days w/o congress approval; Congressional response to Watergate |
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| Campaign finace disclosure |
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| canidates/politcal party must document donations above $200;Congressional response to Watergate |
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| limits gov. secercy; gov. becomes more transparent; Congressional response to Watergate |
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