for jobs and freedom

political rally in support of civil and economic rights of African Americans

that one guy's "I have a dream" speech.

11/22/63

Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald

lyndon B Johnson

citizenship became federal responsibility

(attempt to cover every part of life it could, but not able to cover voting rights)

inserts fed gov into voting process- prohibits states from imposing a qualification or prerequistie for voting to prohibit anyone from voting due to color or race

went from 30% to 70% of black population voting

FINALLY puts reconstruction acts into effect

lots of riots in american cities

poor people in major cities pissed off at their lives, started in Watts, CA

worst racial relations didn't have to do with Jim Crow

african american muslim public speaker

working against racism, but taught black supremacy

Black Power

founder of the indochinese communist party, established Viet Minh

wants French out of Vietnam, self determination

(wilson refused to meet with him, against self-det for Vietnam at this point)

Dien Bien Phu

(aka was not bien...)

French defeat...

US money, French bodies

first indochina war between french and viet minh

Geneva Accords

July 1954

"Everyone get into your own stupid country and stop arguing. Kthanks."

peaceful

created North/South boundary at 17th parallel

cheats his way into presidency of newly declared S Vietnam

executed in 1963 because he sucked

North Vietnamese attack two US destroyer ships in international waters

Resolution is essentially a declaration of war

Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs April 1961

-went commie and made alliance with Soviets

-JFK is pres yo

-US CIA and some cuban exiles team up to overturn castro, but the cubans tattle bc they still like castro and it turns into a FIASCO

sustained US aerial bombing

like for real they didn't stop bombing things for 3 years.

-thousands of East Germans "voting with feet"/ leaving

-commie solution: lets build a wall to keep them in!

commie FAIL: all their ppl wanna leave this "socialist paradise"

"LBJ's war"

1965-71 was the peak of Am Soldiers over seas

-anchorman! most trusted man in amuricah

-Johnson blamed him for turning the american opinion against him and didnt rerun for president *GASP* 

military campaign by People's army of Vietnam against the normal South Vietnam army and US...

N Vietnam accomplished 2 important goals: gained valuable territory and obtained a better bargaining position at the peace negotiations being conducted in Paris.

The Pentagon Papers

June 1971

-1945-68 internal study 

-Nixon didnt want to undermine ppls belief in government bc it would cost him the presidency so he hid it: (Johnson knew we werent winning in Nam and still sent oodles of troops over)

-Elsberg leaked the p papers

-Nixon tries to stop leak with his "plumbers" 

-students taking it to the streets

-peaceful protest 

-parker berkley started it

Containment

Truman Doctrine- active role in Greek war/anti commy

Marshall Plan- helping countries combat poverty/disease/malnutrition

Rio Pact- US meet 19 Latin american countries and create a security zone around that hemisphere

-wrote the feminist mystique 

-helps drive the feminist push

-Nixon had the election in the bag but was supes paranoid. 

he had his henchmen sneak into the Democratic national committee headquaters to find juicy details on their campaign

-grandpa-esque man investigating watergate

-lawyer, pro Jim Crow (hoe)

-maximum john- always gave max penalty

deputy assisstent to nixon.

-knew about the taping system in the oval office and when questioned in court abt watergate admitted to it. 

basically nixon then was screwed bc he was on the tapes talking about watergate

nixon apointed him attorney general

-later asked him to fire the top lawyer investigating watergate. 

richardson in sticky wickett and resigned

became vice president a year before tape released proving nixon guilty. 

hence el presidente ford

Saturday night massacre

October 20 1973

nixon fires special prosecuter archibald cox (man investigating watergate)

and 

Attorney general Richardson and Deputy Attorney Ruckelshaus resign 

basically nixon and henry kissenger were like "hey, the SU and china hate each other.lets exploit this for our own personal gain!" 

-so nixon met with mao zedong to make diplomatic relations

also tried to make detente with su

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense agreement; members agree to mutual defense in response to an attack

relaxation of tensions 

-bn US SU and China

-nixon 

-Us and SU pledge to freeze the number of intercontinental BALLISTIC missiles they build and prevent development of nonballistic missiles

-obsessed with human rights, and hammers SU for human rights

he sucked?

egypt and syria attack israel; call for soviet aid

soviet and cuban forces help to install communist government angola

-economic shorthand for desperation

-OPEC embargo: gas shortages

-Less than 3% was offline and it caused a economic downturn... uh oh

- caused oil embargo against us 

US supported Israel

-OPEC embrago 1973

-gas shortages

-Less than 3% was offline and it caused a economic downturn... uh oh

1970s are the dumps

stag=inflation + recession

leader of Soviet Union form 85 on; initiated a campaign of openness and reconstruction

did most to end cold war

unemployment + inflation 

CPI

Us will guide the spread of freedom and democracy world wide

universal, moralistic, wilsonian

US will support "freedom fighters" and support/use proxies

"rollback 2.0"

hedonism (search for gratification) and pleasure

DISCO EXPLOSION! ...boom 

-52 US citizens were held hostage for 444 days.

-released as soon as Reagan finished inaugural address 

-gave credit to reagan instead of carter who was working his ass off to get them out the night before

-studied deep roots of black poverty

-said that if not nuclear (has both husband & wife) than that greatly hinders move towards economic and political equality

-blames slavery and the victim

-malformation in black community getting worse

meeting between the true loves, in iceland

resulted in the INF treaty

signing of the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)

-total elimination of short and medium range missiles

-1st time # nukes is reduced and whole category of arms is eliminated

1989 announced that the travel restrictions of berlin wall lifted. (all of the officials of east germany are in meeting and cant say otherwise)

-all the peepes line up at the wall waiting to get out. 

-guards are lazy hoes (good hoes) and just let them through

-TV runs before reality

into Russian Union 1991

last of the Soviet troops go home in '94

regan doctrine

-didn't like detente, made cold war Amoral

GOING TO FIGHT COMMUNISM EVERYWHERE

SWOC

Steal workers organizing committee

wovoka was the leader

messianic spirtual resistance movement

protected organized labor

-made fed gov arbiter of labor/management disputes

bases for destroyers deal

-US traded Britian 50 destroyers (warships) in exchange for land to build US naval or air bases on