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| Tansill argues the "back door" thesis, that describes the president deceitfully orchestrated a series of moves to bring a reluctant nation into war. By supplying destroyers to Britain, establishing the lend-lease program, and maneuvering Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt created circumstances in which US entry became unavoidable. Isolationist argument. |
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| Divine argues that Roosevelt was motivated initially by a sincere desire to keep the US out of the war. As international events seemed to impinge on American security, Roosevelt moved incrementally toward belligerency. Internationalist argument. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (The German Menace) |
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| Roosevelt sets a new tone, preparing the US public for an actually shooting war on the Atlantic as a back door to full US military participation in the anti-Axis struggle. Roosevelt describes the evils of Hitler and Nazi Germany and promotes American spirit. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt ("Four Freedoms" Speech) |
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| Roosevelt recognizes the fact that rights and freedoms are being lost in Europe at the hands of war and propaganda, and stresses the importance of maintaining these freedoms in the US: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of economic peace, and freedom from fear (i.e. disarming countries to reduce fear of physical aggression). |
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| A Charter signed by FDR and Winston Churchill (US and UK) to set about basic ground rules during involvement in the war. |
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| Origin of the Cold War: In portraying the fundamental cause of the Cold War as a difference in principles between the US and the Soviet Union, Schlesinger acknowledged the argument that US actions contributed to the conflict. He still implies that the American principles were morally superior and he concluded firmly that Soviet ideology and the nature of Josef Stalin's dictatorship were the key causes of Cold War tensions. |
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| Origin of the Cold War: Paterson suggests that actions by Truman triggered the rise of tensions in the late 1940s. According to Paterson, US officials exaggerated the Soviet threat to American interests and formulated a disproportionate response to it. |
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| George Kennan (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) |
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| Kennan sent this telegraph predicting serious difficulties with the Soviet Union in the emerging postwar period. He outlines the Soviet foreign policy as well as their domestic policy concerning the economy and civil rights. |
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| Harry S. Truman (Aid to Greece and Turkey) |
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| Greece's and Turkey's autonomy was traditionally held together by Britain, but having been exhausted by the war, Britain could no longer help them, and the US faced a choice of either helping them or letting them fall under Soviet control. Truman requests that the US aid them. |
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| George Marshall (We Must Help Europe Recover) |
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| Marshall advocates his plan (The Marshall Plan): to check Communist advance by restoring the prosperity of the whole European continent, East as well as West. Congress eventually appropriated billions of dollars to implement the plan and soon food, equipment, coal and steel were being sent to Europe in enormous volume. |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower (The Domino Theory) |
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| Eisenhower likened the non-Communist nations of the region to a row of dominoes that would tip over one by one of the Hanoi regime were successful in reunited Vietnam unger its aegis. He still, however, was unwilling to commit US combat forces to Vietnam. |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Provided the legal and budgetary basis for US actions of war in Vietnam. |
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| Provided an overview of the "official" rationale for Americanization of the Vietnam War. |
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| Le Duan (The North Vietnamese Analyze American Intervention) |
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| Le Duan encourages a certain group of Communist leaders and represents a careful dissection of US options in Vietnam. |
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| Vietnam Day Committee (Attention All Military Personnel) |
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| From a pamphlet distributed by the VDC to army inductees and enlisted men at military bases in northern California. It provides basic information regarding the details on the war in Vietnam. |
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| Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (The US Government Has Deceived Us) |
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| The SNCC was disenchanted by the US involvement policies in Vietnam and launched this attack against it. |
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| Declaration of Conscience Against the War in Vietnam |
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| Basically what the title is. I hate history. |
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| People ran to Canada to get out of the war, and then were pissed at the government for being involved and sent this proclamation. Who cares. |
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| Joseph R. McCarthy (Why Communism Is Gaining) |
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| McCarthy, preying on the suspicions of inside-Communists in the government, would accuse fellow government officials of being Communist spies. |
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| McCarran Internal Security Act |
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| To protect the US against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes. Essentially unconstitutional in its attempts to remove the US of Communism. |
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| Millard Tydings Committee (McCarthy's Charges are False) |
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| Fought against McCarthy's frequent accusations and attempted to defend those accused and reveal the fraud that McCarthy was. |
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| The National Highway Program |
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| Message sent by Dwight D. Eisenhower advocating the creation of highway infrastructure. |
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| Live the of Life of McCall's |
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| A publication targeted at middle-class women, McCall's describes with delight one key aspect of the suburban surge-- "togetherness" |
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| A Man's Place Is in the Home |
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| The man should stay home, help with children and housework to support his family and make them happy. |
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| David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) |
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| Believes that modern mass society has developed enhanced powers to direct the individual. |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (This is SCLC) |
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| A statement of the SCLC of its approach and goals. It summarizes the philosophy that guided King and his supporters. |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson (The Great Society) |
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| This quote will be easy to recognized because every other word is "The Great Society" |
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| Barry Goldwater (The Conscience of a Conservative) |
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| Conservative opponents of the Great Society responded promptly by raising familiar charges of socialist encroachment by government. They believed the program was hopelessly collectivist in nature and it fostered the inefficient growth of big government, diminished traditional US values and in the long run wouldn't accomplish what it hoped to achieve. |
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| Students for a Democratic Society (The Port Huron Statement) |
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| Intended to be both a manifesto and a strategic plan, the Statement is probably the most thorough explanation of the philosophy of the "the movement" that would soon devote its energy to political protest and civil disobedience. These radicals found the liberalism of Johnson's Great Society to be even more distateful than conservatism. |
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| Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (We Want Black Power) |
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| Stuff about wanting Black Power |
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| National Organization for Women (NOW) (Bill of Rights) |
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| The document was intended to parallel the first ten amendments to the federal Constitution, which are the original Bill of Rights. |
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| Anne Koedt (Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto for New York Radical Feminists) |
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| Their philosophy. Lots of stuff about women. |
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| Radical Women (Organization) (No More Miss America!) |
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| They don't want the Miss America pageant to continue apparently. |
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| Alice Skelsey (Mrs. Homemake-Mrs. Wonderful: The New Myths from Women's Lib) |
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| An enemy in opposition to the feminist campaign. Based on the conviction that a woman's place was in the home. |
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| Richard M. Nixon (I Did Not Know About Watergate) |
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| Nixon talks about Watergate. |
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| Robert McAfee Brown (The Need for a Moral Minority) |
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| I don't even know what this guy's talking about. Hopefully it won't be on the final. Something about religion. I don't know. |
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