Cold War
This is where they discussed the future of East Europe and free elections as well as establishing the United Nations and deciding what to do with Germany post-war
What is the Yalta Conference?
This was the biggest guarantee of rights since Reconstruction
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
1 U.S. destroyer (Maddox), on a spy
mission, reported being attacked
Resolution: to conduct operations
in Vietnam as he saw fit
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
This was an attempt by Republicans to get the votes of white Southerners
What is the Southern Strategy?
This amendment passed and ratified in 1919 was monumental in the women's rights movement
What is the 19th Amendment?
This man began the policy of containment
Who is George Kennan?
This event's goal was national attention to racial discrimination, federal assistance in desegregation of city
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
This started as reactions to exclusion from high-paying jobs, affordable housing, & police brutality and frightened many white Americans
What is the Watts Riot?
This includes
• Obsessed with secrecy
• “plumbers” started after Pentagon Papers
• CREEP
• Break-in at Democratic National Committee HQ
What is Watergate?
This created a grassroots movement to appeal to the nativist masses of Germany
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?
This man was fired for insubordination and did not want to stop at the 38th parallel in Korea
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
He disagreed with MLK and sought separatism from Whites completely
Who is Malcolm X?
In the Mid-1960s, This called for economic justice, & abandoned principles of integration & non-violence
What is Black Nationalism?
• 1979 Iranian
Revolution: Ayatollah
Khomeini
• Shah: asylum in U.S.
• Hostages
• 14 months
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
This organization, created in 1932, provided loans to banks, RRs, and utility companies
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation(RFC)?
Established the Department of Health, Education, & Welfare
Increased spending for veterans’ benefits, public housing, & social security
Interstate Highway Act
Raised the minimum wage
Pushed for NASA
Extended Containment into the
third world
Who is Eisenhower?
This is the year of the March on Washington
What is 1963?
This was an attempt to make Communists surrender hope of reuniting with S. Vietnam
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
• Early 1986: leaks that administration had negotiated arms-for-hostages
• Hezbollah held Americans
• Sold weapons to Iran, got aid in hostage release
• Used arms sales profits to fund Contras in Nicaragua
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Terrence V. Powderly established This in 1869
What is the Knights of Labor?
1. Collective security
2. Creation of NATO (1949), Warsaw Pact (1955)
3. Creation of Federal Republic of Germany (W) & the German Democratic Republic (E)
4. Soviets developed atomic capabilities
5. National Security Council issued NSC-68:
1. hydrogen bomb
2. tax increase to pay major defense build up
What are consequences of the Berlin Crisis?
Continuation of New Deal
• Dems controlled both Houses in 1964
• Elementary & Secondary Ed Act
• Higher Ed Act
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• More $ to mass transit, housing, Model Cities
What is the Great Society?
• Protest in reaction to:
• Bombing campaign learned about at the same
time as news of My Lai massacre broke
• Kent State ROTC building burned down
• Ohio National Guard called in-
• One guardsman panicked, opened fire, killed 4
What is the Kent State Massacre?
• Supply-side vs. Keynesian economics: Keynesians favored moderate tax cuts, increases in government spending—
• Supply siders called for big tax cuts & reduction in gov’t spending (except for defense)
• Private entrepreneurs wld invest in business
• Create new jobs
What is Reaganomics?
Blacks moved North during WWI for jobs in expanding war industries, found greater freedoms in the North, esp the right to vote during This event
What is the Great Migration?