50's
Why were the 50s called the age of conformity?
society shifted from reform-oriented and self-driven to self-centered and driven by others with permissive parenting and loose discipline.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott about?
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Begins a largescale boycott and MLK is chosen to lead the nonviolent protests. Boycott lasts a year and there are bombings, snipers and violence.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis??
Cuban missile bases had nuclear bombs from Russia. JFK quarantines Cuba and challenges Russia that of they move beyond a specific longitude with their ships the US will launch nukes. Russia eventually backs down.
How did the draft work?
Anyone over the age of 18 who was eligible to join the military was entered into a lottery based on their birthdays. When your date was called decided when you were deployed to Vietnam.
What was Nixon's Foreign policy?
1)Shift to replacing soldiers with bombs in Vietnam.
2)Detente: opens China to the West. Eases tensions with both Russia and China
3) Yom Kippur War: Israel/ Egypt. US backs Isreal.
OPEC cuts oil production to ease the recession
What was Eisenhower known for?
being economically conservative and socially liberal. He created the interstate highways. He was pro-business. "what's good for GM is good for America" poor army writer
What happened in Birmingham?
Blacks and whites from all over march on Birmingham and are arrested. No bail meant the jails filled immediately and there was nowhere to put them. 6000 kids were arrested, and attack dogs and firehoses are used on protestors.
Who is LBJ?
VP under JFK. Crude middle-class texas rancher
outspoken supporter of civil rights. Passed Civil Rights Act. Had no interests outside politics. Promised the Great Society. and started a War on Poverty, which worked and cut poverty in half.
Great American president remembered for a failed war.
What 2 key factors ended the war?
Television and their publication of war crimes and the draft turned Americans against the war.
What is Nixon's backround?
Raised dirt poor as a Quaker, but had no sympathy for the poor.
Unlikable, pragmatic and dishonest.
He lied constantly even when it was unneccesary.
What was Eisenhowers' foreign policy?
Containment: Balance of terrors.: Divide and conquer in China, Anti-Castro in Cuba, Vietnam split in half and Ike is against sending troops, CIA replaces democracy with shah in Iran, Ike doesn't help Hungarians and east germans.
What was the March on Selma about?
It was a 54-mile march to Selma in order to register to vote. Happened in 3 stages.
Bloody Sunday= many injured march turns back
on the second King turns back after Gov Wallace ignores calls for nonviolence.
On the third the march was backed by 2000 army troops and federal marshals 25000 mixed marchers make it to the end.
What was the "Great Society"?
It was LBJ's war on poverty. It focused on providing housing (HUD), healthcare (created medicare and medicade), food (food stamps and hot school lunches), and more environmental regulations as well as foundations for the arts and humanities.
Worked Cut Poverty In Half
Why did LBJ not run for the presidency in 1968?
His career was destroyed by the scandal of Vietnam.
What was the Checkers Speach?
Nixon went on air on TV and said he was totally honest and had never stolen any campaign funds and lied for 30 minutes. Saved his campaign.
Why was Brown v. Board of Education the demise of segregation?
Because once you recognize that separate is inherently unequal you can no longer justify segregation.
Who was JFK
Rich charismatic Irish Catholic from Boston. Created NASA and created Peace Corps but otherwise didn't accomplish much. "Playboy of the Senate". Played power politics. Assassinated 3 years into the presidency
What was Agent Orange?
a deforestation chemical used to destroy the foprests of vietnam in order to find enemies. Highly carcinogenic.
What happened in the 1968 election?
Gene McCarthy runs on an antiwar campaign.
Bobby Kennedy runs and is assasinated after giving a speach about being the frontrunner
Hubert Humphrey ends up as Democratic Frontrunner.
Richatd Nixon is the Republican candidate and wins.
What happened at Watergate?
The Democratic National Conventions headquarters were there and there was a breakin. The theives are caught, searching for the Democrats campaign plan in order to rig the election. They have new cash and phone numbers of white house officials.
Who were the "Little Rock Nine"? and why were they a big deal?
Segregation is ended in public schools and 9 children volunteer to be the first African Americans to attend white schools. Massive outrage and all schools are shut down.
What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
JFK approves CIA invasion plan attempting to remove (kill Castro) that ends in total disaster. This drives Castro to deal with Russia.
What was the My Lai massacre?
A company of American soldiers entered a village on a search-and-destroy mission and began slaughtering the entire village. over 500 died including women and children who were raped and mutilated before being killed.
What was Nixon's Domestic Policy?
Conservative Domestic policy.
Shifts Great Society by moving power from the federal to state level.
"Southern Strategy" Shifts the south to the Republican party by using the race card.
Who was Deepthroat?
An informant for the Washington Post who leaked the pentagon papers that showed exactly who payed for the Watergate breakin. Nixon immediately demands a cover up.