Truman
How did Americans first feel about Truman being president?
What is they felt he could not make tough decision?
This was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crises?
This was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
What is the war on poverty?
What countries occupied Vietnam in the 1940's?
Who is Japan and France?
This was a phrase used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) to describe the United States as he tried to arouse popular support for sending military aid to nations fighting against the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan, among others) during World War II (1939–1942).
What is the great arsenal of democracy?
This is a policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of nondurable materials.
What is planned obsolescence?
and was the last major politic-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany. This started when the USSR launched an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
What is the Berlin Crises of 1961?
This is an apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true.
What is a credibility gap?
This type of person was pro war.
What is a hawk?
These two sides fought against each other during WWII?
Who are the allied and axis powers?
Hours before the strike organized by the United Steelworkers of America was set to begin on April 9, 1952, President Truman nationalized the steel industry. ... When coal miners went out on strike in April, Truman seized the mines and ordered the miners back to work.
What is the coal miners strike?
This event was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
LBJ took office on this date.
What is November 22, 1963?
This type of person did not want war.
What is a dove?
This was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II.
What is the war production board?
When the Soviet Union developed their own atomic bomb, The United States developed this bomb.
What is the H-Bomb?
was a defense strategy implemented by JFK in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of massive retaliation. It called for mutual deterrence at strategic, tactical, and conventional levels, giving the United States the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of war, not limited only to nuclear arms.
What is flexible response?
This was a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
What was the war powers act?
This revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.
What are the pentagon papers?
What is Mr. G's favorite sport to watch?
Football
Truman’s controversial 1948 executive order desegregating the military and banning discriminatory hiring practices in the federal government. Issued in an election year, the executive order was a bold move that thrilled African Americans and outraged Southern whites. What were these southern democrats known as?
Who are the Dixiecrats?
Kennedy says in his speech "Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus." This is known as.
What is the New Frontier?
What country did Ngo Dinh Diem rule?
What is South Vietnam?
This US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
What was vietnamization?
What is Mr. Gs favorite song of all time?
What is homecoming by Kanye West?