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| 1947, sponsered by Robert A. Taft & Fred A. Hartley, designed to amend the Wagner Act. Allowed president to appoint a board of inquiry to investigate union disputes & forbade unions from contributing to political campaigns |
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| 1944, FDR, provided college or vocational education for returning WWII veterans as well as 1 yr of unemployment compensation. Biggest force behind bill was the American Legion (veterans advocacy group). |
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| US military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism |
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| 1947, Truman pledged to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures" (aka Turkey and Greece). |
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| 1947-51, named after Secretary of State George Marshall. $13 billion in economic and technical assistance to aid in recovery of European countries. |
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| soviet troops blocked railways and roads, so the Western Allies (UK royal air force & US air force) organized 200,000 flights in 1 year providing daily necessities such as fuel and food. |
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| 1938-1975, House Un-American Activities Committee, geared towards anti-communist investigations |
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| 1947 first systematic hollywood blacklist (people in hollywood denied employment because of their political beliefs or associations). these ten were cited in contempt for refusing to give testimony to HUAC |
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| 1947-1957, focused on communists influencey society or infiltrating the federal government |
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| making of accusations of disloyalty, subversion or treason without proper regard to evidence, also characterized by heightened fears of communism. |
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| conformity with the dominant white ideal of a white, suburban, nuclear family with a heterosexual couple and docile children that fit traditional gender roles. |
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| william levitt was a builder between 1947-51, first mass-produced suburb creating a "planned community". |
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| 1956, Eisenhower, $25b for the construction of 41,000 miles of the interstate highway system over a 20 yr period, largest public works project in history through that time. |
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| originated in the late 1940's and early 1950's from blues country music, jazz and gospel music. some said that "watching elvis could lead to sin", parental norms often prevailed in the end. |
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| brown v. board of education |
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| 1951-54,topeka, KS, the warren court overturned plessy v. ferguson declaring state laws establishing separate educational facilities inherently unequal. |
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| 1955, AA 14 yr old from chicago murdered in MI after flirting with Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, public funeral with open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing |
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| 1957, nine students initially prevented from entering a racially segregated school (after the ruling of brown v. board of ed. in 1954) by AR gov. Orval Faubus, Eisenhower intervened by sending the national guard to escort the nine into the building everyday. |
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| 1955-56, boycott of riding the racially segregated public transit system, resulting in financial deficit for montgomery transit system. |
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| civil rights activist, nonviolent methods, helped to found the SCLC (southern christian leadership conference) in 1957, march on washington in 1963, nobel peace prize in 1964, dead in 1968 |
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| 1961, testing the supreme court decision (boynton v. virginia stating that segregation in public transportation systems to be unconstitutional)extreme violence broke out because of these rides. |
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| 1963, movement organized by the SCLC to bring attention to the unequal treatment of AA, eventually pressured gov. to change the city's discrimination laws |
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| 1963, political rally in support of civil and economic rights for AA |
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| new songs containing socially and politically aware lyrics, as well as a general modernization of the folk sound |
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| 1964-66, preformers from the UK with rock 'n' roll, beat rock and pop sounds. including the beatles, the animals, the rolling stones |
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| 1964, outlawed major forms of discrimination agianst blacks and women, including racial segregation. ended unequal application of voter registration requirements, segregation in schools, in the workplace, or in facilities that served the general public |
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| freedom summer/voting rights |
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| attack on white supremecy in MI during summer of 1964, turning point in civil rights movement, forced federal gov. to deepen its commitment to equal rights |
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| legislation that prohibited literacy tests and poll taxes |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation |
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| AA muslim minister, public speaker, human rights activist, ideas of armed self-defense, black separatism, black supremacy, and violence, member of the nation of islam |
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| 1965, five days after voting right act of 1965, riots erupted in watts, los angeles, a black man being arrested for drunk driving sparked the uprising. this uprising changed the perception of AA protesters from nonviolent and docile to one of lawless mobs shouting "burn baby, burn". |
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| explores how black leaders with different ideologies embraced competing definition of black power |
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| militant civil rights group dedicated to armed self-defense, racial pride, and inner-city renewal. they initiated community projects including free breakfast at school for children and health clinics. this is often overshadowed by the rifles. |
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| leader of underground vietnamese communist resistance movement that launched guerilla attacks |
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| national liberation front |
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| 1955-1975, political organization & army in south vietnam and cambodia that fought the us and south vietnamese gov. during vietnam war. |
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| gulf of tonkin resolution |
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| gave johnson permission to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attach against the US to prevent further aggression in Vietnam |
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| 1967, protest america's involvement in vietnam, protesters linked arms and marched to the pentagon & when met by the army someone proceeded to place carnations in their rifles (the beginning of the term "flower power") |
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| Kent, OH student-organized demonstration protesting the invasion of cambodia, became violent when the national guard fired tear gas at demonstrators who responded by throwing rocks and obscenities at the troops, 4 dead, 9 wounded |
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| 1968, massive coordinated assault against 100s of towns in south vietnam coordinated by n vietnam and vietcong forces |
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