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39 Cards in this Set
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Truman and Containment |
- block soviet expansion developed by George Kennan - Truman Doctrine: economic aid for Greec and Turkey - Marshall Plan: promoted recovery of Europe - NATO alliance - berlin airlift |
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NATO |
- This was a military alliance for defending all members from outside attack - Ten European nations joined the US and Canada |
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Berlin airlift |
- Soviets cut of all access by land to the German city of Berlin - Ordered US planes to fly in supplies to the people of West Berlin - Soviets opened up highways to Berlin in May 1949 and split up Germany into TWO |
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"fall of china" |
- led by Mao Zedong - declared peoples republic of China - Us refused to recognize new gov - anticommunist hysteria |
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UN and NK |
- NK invaded SK in 1950 - soviet was absent from meeting...declared NK as aggressor - fought under UN auspices unlike Vietnam - MAcarthur wanted to issue a complete blockade and bombard bases...fired |
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Korean War |
- armistace in 1953 - 38th parallel - desegregated armed forces |
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Vietnam Withdrawal |
- French withdrew - after WWWI Frenc controlled Indochina - HoChi Minh defeated French - US refused to sign Geneva Accords (divided Vietnam in half communist) and replace France as main power in Indochina |
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Domino Effect |
- Vietnam War |
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Cold War during eisenhower |
- Sputnik-->NASA - Egypt seized Suez Canal - Castro ained control of Cuba - Soviets shot down US spy plane |
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Rise of Mccarthyism |
- US gov filled with communists - public accusations w/o enough evidence - fears from "fall" of china - soviet bomb - containment - Rosenberg Case (gave info to soviets about bomb) |
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Fall of Mccarthyism |
- accused US army of being communists sympathizers - Nixon and JFK began their political careers as anti communists |
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Dixiecrats |
- fought for old Southern way of life - opposed civil rights - nominated Thurmond against Truman |
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Brown v Board |
- desegregated public schools - overturned separate but equal denial of 14th amendment - Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock |
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MLK |
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Leader - Stokely Carmichael: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (more violent) |
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Affluent Society |
- decade after WWII - baby boom - suburbanization |
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Women after WWII |
- went back home - "I Love Lucy" -"Father Knows Best" |
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Rise of Suburbia |
- after WWII - Eisenhower issued Fed Highway Act |
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Social Critics of the 1950s |
- compare w Lost generation - John Galbraith:personal goods take aware from public projects - criticized middle class materialism and conformity |
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Rebellion during 1950s |
- Rock and Roll (inspired by black music) - Jackson Pollack: abstract art - movie stars: James Dean |
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Election of 1960 |
- JFK was first to include televised debates - Camelot: enthusiastic, upbeat atmosphere |
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The Great Society |
- fed gov to enhance social welfare - education and jobs t overcome poverty - ciivl rights act (outlawed discrimination) - voting rights act (no more literacy tests) |
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Betty Friedan |
- The Feminine Mystique - president of Antional Organization for women - |
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The bay of pigs invasion |
- failure: pushed Castro closer to the Soviet Union - a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro - kennedy |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
- Kennedy - soviet missiles in Cuba' - Soviets withdrew missiles, US promised not to attack Castro |
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
- Johnson made use of a naval incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to secure congressional authorization for US forces going into combat - Gave the president a blank check to take “all necessary measures” to protect US interests in Vietnam |
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The Tet Offensive |
- Vietcong launched surprise attack on almost every provincial capital an American base in South Vietnam - US military counterattacked, inflicted much heavier losses on the Vietcong, and recovered the lost territory - The destruction viewed by millions on the TV news appeared as a colossal setback for Johnson’s Vietnam policy, demoralized American public |
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Election of 1968 |
Republican candidate Richard Nixon appealed to a nation tired of violence and unrest. Nixon vowed he would end the Vietnam War and win peace. Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey, Johnson's vice president, seemed a continuation of the old politics. In the end, Richard Nixon won. |
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George Wallace |
- 3rd party candidate...election of 1968 - school segregation and states rights - segregationist |
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The silent majority |
supported Nixon - Hawks supported vietnam war - favored gradual withdraw from Cambodia |
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Invasion of Cambodia |
- Nixon withdrew troops from Vietnam and replaced them with S. vietnamese ones - US invaded neutral Cambodia to clear out Vietcong |
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Kent State |
- Massacre of four college students by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970, in Ohio. - In response to Nixon's announcement that he had expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia, college campuses across the country exploded in violence. |
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Paris Accords |
- promised cease fire and free elections in North Vietnam - Henry Kissinger |
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Detente |
- Nixon now recognized new gov of China in BEjing - Visited Moscow--> strategic arms limitation talks: limited nuclear weapons each superpower could have and expanded trade |
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New federalism |
- distributed federal power to state and local gov - state and local gov could spend how they want with certain limitations |
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Problmes with Carter |
- inflation - stagflation: rising inflation and rising unemployment - inc unemployement - inc gov spending - inc interest rights |
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Carter Foreign Policy |
- humans rights - Camp David Accords- pecs agreement btwn Israel and Egypt |
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1980 election |
- Carter vs Reagan - iranian hostage crisis - weak economy, high inflation |
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reaganomics |
- red fed taxes - encourage private investment - promote economic growth by deregulation businesses |
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Clinton Presidency |
- NAFTA:established free trade zone between Canada, United States and Mexico, net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets - US became a member of the World Trade Origination |