Cold War/1950s
What encouraged the growth of suburbs?
The GI Bill (support from Veteran's administration)
Government Building interstate highways
"White flight"
How did states try to disenfranchise African American voters?
Literacy tests
Poll Tax
Jim Crow Laws
*Not conquered with Civil Rights Act of 1964
During Nixon's administration the public learned that...
The Pentagon Papers hid the truth about the war
Bay of Pigs Invasion - Failure! No more attempts to overthrow Castro
Berlin Wall - speech to West Berlin "we are with you"
Cuban Missile Crisis - Naval Blockade of Cuba
Who did Nixon consider the Silent Majority?
Conservative Americans
McCarthyism started with McCarthy...
Charging those in the state department to be communists
How did most civil rights groups "fight" for their rights?
economic boycotts, legal attacks in the courts, mobilization of African American churches, sit ins (students - SNCC)
Vietnamization was the idea to
Slowly withdrawal American troops, while supporting the South Vietnamese war effort
The Great Society...
War on poverty, lack of education, etc. Federal support for individual economic security and liberty.
Nixon's real legacy should have been with his foreign policy where he created...
Detente - an easing of tensions between the U.S., Soviets and China
Methods used to "fight" the Cold War
Proxy Wars (Korea/Vietnam, Domino Theory)
Economic Aid Packages (Marshall Plan, Truman Doc)
Alliances (NATO)
Because of the Montgomery Bus Boycott..
Courts decided Montgomery's Jim Crow Laws regarding where African Americans could sit on public transportation was unconstitutional
Pushed MLK Jr to prominence in the Civil Rights Movement
Congress passed the War Powers Act because
Vietnam was fought without a Congressional declaration of war
Because of the Great Society, we will see ________ in the 1970s/1980s
A modern conservative movement
Nixon's actual legacy was...
The Watergate Scandal - can we trust our government?
The Berlin Airlift...
Brought supplies by air to Berlin when the Soviets denied the west access
Stokely Carmichael believed....
Integration should not be the goal of the movement. Legislative gains were not changing the discrimination and disenfranchisement felt by African Americans.
Jimmy Carter inherited/faced many problems as president including:
The OPEC Oil Embargo
The Iran Hostage Crisis
Lack of trust in government
1950s culture changed in multiple ways. Give me two ways it changed.
Surge in national birthrate
Fewer women working (housewives)
College attendance increased
Rock and Roll/Teenagers
Television
There were many leaders for other movements - give me one and what they did/believed.
Caesar Chavez - United Farm Workers
Betty Friedan - Feminine Mystique (women hurt by white collar jobs), NOW (equal pay, ERA, legalization of abortion)
Harvey Milk - Gay Rights (first openly gay elected official)
Russel Means, Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks - American Indian Movement
Carter changed the U.S. Foreign policy from detente to U.S. Morals. This lead to his only foreign policy success:
The Camp David Accords (a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt)