US HIST AFTER WORLD WAR II

NATO

1945 - 1991

Vietnam and Korea

1945 to 1953

End of WWII, Beggining of Cold War, Churchill's warning of the Iron Curtain.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Efforts from the U.S. government to stop communism. Example: U.S invested 400 million into the Greek war because the movements towards communism in that european nation.

1949

Accused of spying for the soviets but the real spy was George Kaval.

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

Wa a crusade against Communism influence wihtin the United States. Its scope was wide and deep. curtailing civil liberties and quelling political dessent

Loyolty Oaths. Establised by Harry S. Truman in 1947. All federal employees were required to sign one. From 1947 to 1965 about 20% of all workers in the U.S. signed one.

Hollywood. This committee believed that the movie industry had communist ties.

Collection of names of hundreds of people deemed 'subversive' whom Hollywood executives agreed not to hire

Strategy for dealing with the Soviet Union, the intent being to contain Communism and not let it advance any farther than it already had

Truman's twenty-one point postwar plan that provided increases in the minimum wage, federal assistance in building homes, federal support for education and health care, jobs in public works, renewal of the Fair Employment Practices Commission

Group of screenwriters and directors accused of being members of the Communist Party

Discussion between Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon in 1959 debating the relative merits of capitalism and Communism

Pact that cemented an alliance of Western nations; prompted by the Berlin Crisis

Classified paper written by American diplomats that portrayed an uncontrollably aggressive Soviet Union; the paper recommended stopping the threat by advocating a massive military build-up, the creation of hydrogen bombs, and rooting out all Communists on American soil

Labor-Management Act of 1947 that banned the closed shop, outlawed collective bargaining within industries, and authorized the president to delay strikes by declaring a 'cooling-off' period

White Citizens' Councils

Barrier built in 1961 by the Communist government to separate impoverished, Soviet-controlled East Berlin from the more prosperous West Berlin

Movement bridging the gap between black nationalism and the civil rights struggle; its leaders argued that black people should have control over the social, educational, and religious institutions in their communities and advocated black pride

Legislation outlawing all discrimination in public facilities based on color, religion, sex, and national origin, and establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate violations of the law in employment

Social movement that consciously rejected traditional politics, social values, and corporate consumerism

Thirteen-day confrontation between the Kennedy administration and the Cuban Communist regime in October 1962; Castro had agreed to allow the Soviet Union to base a few of its nuclear missiles in Cuba, thus potentially triggering a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union

Legislation passed in 1965 curtailing the quota system of the 1920s and permitting larger numbers of non-Europeans to settle in the United States

Counterculture adherents who embraced new attitudes toward drugs, sex, popular culture, and politics

Winding path through North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, which the North Vietnamese used to supply the Viet Cong

Facilitating the economic and political maturation of developing nations; political strategy.

Black nationalist organization whose leaders rejected the intergrationist perspective of mainstream civil rights protestors, calling instead for an independent black nation-state

Secret Defense Department study, published in 1971, which revealed that the government had lied and purposely deceived the American public over major events in the Vietnam War in an attempt to manipulate public opinion

Strategies used during wartime in which the U.S. Army would locate enemy forces, retreat, and call in airpower

Organization founded in 1959 declaring that young people were tired of older political movements, even older radical ones; formed the core of a self-conscious 'New Left' movement, which rejected the Old Left's ideologies of economic justice in favor of an ideology of social justice

Legislation allowing the president to 'take all necessary mesasures to repel armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression,' which was used to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Welfare

Détente

Roe v. Wade

Affirmative action

Camp David Accords

Six Day War

Stagflation

Sessions held between President Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, in which the two leaders agreed to freeze the number of long-range missile launchers and build certain new missiles only after they had destroyed the same number of older missiles

Nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania that suffered a meltdown in 1979

Right-wing Nicaraguan guerilla group

Complete expulsion of an entire ethnic population from a particular area

Theory that states that tax cuts would produce new investments that would, in turn, generate an increase in federal revenues; these revenues would eventually 'trickle down' to the lower classes in the form of more jobs

Trade defecit

Centrism

Legislation which removed tariff barriers between the United States, Mexico, and Canada

International agency designed to resolve disputes between trading partners and advocate free trade

Political justification articulated by President George W. Bush in which he declared America's right to fight a 'preemptive war' against any nation that, one day, might threaten the U.S.

A bill passed 1944 that gives loans to veterans returning from WWII

The American Century

The Interstate Highway Act of 1956

Chief Justice Earl Warren 1953 to 1969

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954

The Mapp V. Ohio court case

Gideon v. Wainwright 1963

The Anti messagination law, which prohibited marriages between blacks and whites

August 28th, 1963

The Civil Rights Act on July 2nd 1964

Remotely controlled

Angola, Colombia, Indonesia, the Korean War

The American war

A document giving president Lyndon B. Johnson permission to defend the trops in near North Korea. Not necessarilly a declaration of war from Congress

The ten thousand day war

A movement againts the war in Vietnam.

The progressive withdraw of American troops from Vietnam, Use by Richard Nixon and basically meant that SouthVietnamese government should become more responsible for the war.

In 1970 U.S. troops conducted the biggest bombing in this part of Vietnam

A term used to describe Vietnamese who fled South Vietnam after the war in 1975

ICBMs (interconental Balistic Missiles) Manually Assure Distruction (MAD),

Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954 removed from power,

A period when The U.S and Cuba were on the verge of a Nuclear war because Cuba had agreed to store Nuclear missiles from Rusia.

A term used by Eisenhower at his farewell address on Jan 17th, 1961. Which meant to be ware of the military. Congress was interlocked with corporations who built weapons for the military

Obidience to Authority

Black Panther Party for Self Defense 1966, The weather underground

Lead by United Farm Movement and fought simply for the right to organize

War on poverty, Food Stamp, Head Start, Finacial Aid, Medicaid, Medicare

Desapperance of factories due to the U.S. moves industries to other countries with cheaper labor

The term "Rust Belt" refers to an economic region in the northeast United States, roughly covering the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, a region known as the manufacturing heartland of the nation. Many of the factories and steel mills that produced the "American economic miracle" during and after World War II (1939–1945) were padlocking their gates by the 1970s

It meant the beggining of the end of Industrial capitalism. Service economy is more predominant.

A decision made by the Supreme Court to allow banks to charge higher interest rates even if they were in a different state.

A term used by Nixon for Americans who would not protest but at the end of the day would vote republican

She was known for protesting against the Equal Rights Amendment because she thought it would negatively affect women

The end of the new deal liberalism

He fired 13000 Air Traffic Controllers

Building Arms

Deregulation, privatization, defense spending, wall street

The Cuyahoga River Fire