Period 8 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Aftermath of ww2
Cold war, democracy vs communism.
First signs:
Yalta Conference
* dividing Germany into four zones, but the Soviets occupied the Eastern European nations.
What are the 5 important aspects of containment?
Truman Doctrine 1947
* 400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey
Marshall Plan
13 billion aid over 4 years to rebuild European economy
Domino Theory
Berlin Airlift
* 200,000 flights for supplies after the Berlin Blockade
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Nuclear Arms Race
After the soviet unino detonated an atomic bomb,.
National Security Act of 1947 enacted the NSC-68
* Development of the Hydrogen bomb
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
* U.S. reconnaissance planes spot Soviet-built bases with ballistic missiles in Cuba
Proxy War
Korean war 1950
* Soviet / Chinese communism supports North Korea
Americans support South Korea
Red Scare after WW2?
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
* Weakened the right of workers to strike
Federal Loyalty Security Program
* Truamn –> Executive Order 9835
* Showed federal involvement
*investigating any employee of the federal government
House un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC)
* helped spark the red scare
* hearings on communist infiltration in the movie industry
Senator that helped spark the red scare
Senator Joseph McCarthy
* claimed that 205 known communists in the State Department
McCarthyism
Economy of the U.S after WW2
Annual GDP
214 B –> 1945
500 B –> 1960
1 T –> 1970
Global Economy
Bretton Woods System
* World Bank, and nternational Monetary Fund (IMF)
Military-industrial Complex -
production of weapons and military technologies, targetted companies such as being, general dynamics
GI Bill
1944
Trained
* half a million engineers
* 200,000 doctors
* 150,000 scientists
* better education –> higher earning –> consumer spending –> economy
middle class a year - 1 million
Suburbs
Sunbelt
Levttowns
Middle Class
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
* 30-year mortgages
Baby Boom
Average marriage 22 men, 20 women
- needing housing –> suburbs
Mass Culture
87% of American Homes had TV
* Middle-class domestic ideal
* Advertising
Rock ‘n’ Roll
* Elvis Presley
* selling 603 million copies
BLACK PEOPLE
Jim Crow laws –> racial segregation
* less than 20% of blacks were allowed to vote
- Brotherhood of Sleeping CarPorters
Call for March on Washington but FDR issued Executive Order 8802 (1941) - prohibiting racial discrimination in defense industries
Presidential Committee on Civili Rights
* federal action to ensure black equality
* desegregating employment in federal agencies
* desegregating armed forces
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
* Fourteenth Amendment of equal protection
* trying to overturn Plessy v Ferguson in 1896
* Supreme Court overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine.
White people during Civil Rights movement
Emmet Till
* abducted, lynched
* all white jury found the defendants innocent
* became a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement
KKK
1960s Civil Rights Movement
Double V Campaign
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Nonviolent direct action
Freedom Riders
Montgomery bus boycott 1955
* Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr
* Nonviolent and practice of direct Action
Greensboro sit-ins
* Group of students sitting until lunch counters was desegregatd
Sit in movement
* 50,000 people participated
* 3600 went to jail
March on Washington (1963)
* I have a dream
* quarter of a million people
Violent Parts of the Civil Rights Movement
Violent Actions
Black Pride
- Black Panther Party
- Using violence to protect African Americans
Kerner Commission report
* separate and unequal
Riots of 1967
* 43 killed, 50 million worth destroyed
Outcome of civil rights movement?
Civil Rights Act 1964
* outlawed discrimnation in employment
* equal access to public accommodations and schools
* Prohibition Against job discriminations
Voting Rights Act 1965
20% to 62% allowed to vote
