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Chapter 36 and Chapter 37 Flashcards

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Betty Freidan published ____

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The Feminist Mystique which launched women to go against the boredom of being a housewife.

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Eisenhower runs against …

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Aldai E Stevenson (some referred to as “Aldai the Appeaser”

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Nixon was faced with accusations over illegal donations but escaped with this broadcasted on tv

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The Checkers Speech

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Joseph McCarty was a ____ from ____

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Republican and Governor of Wisconsin

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Joseph McCarty accused Secretary of State ____

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Dean Acheson in 1950 of hiring 205 Communists but realized there were only 57 later…

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McCarty and McCartyism

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set the atmosphere for fear and suspicion, as America grew to be more suspicious of its government

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Gunnar Myrdal published

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An American Dilemma - contrasted American creed to the treatment of blacks

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Sweatt v Painter

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challenged the separate but equal clause

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Rosa Parks was involved in the …

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Warren Court in Brown v. Bard of Education

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segregation was inherently inequal and non-constitutional - reversed Plessy v Ferguson

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Declaration of Constituional Principles

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in 1956 pledging states’ resistance to desegregation

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Orval Faubus

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Governor of Arkansas; sent National Guard when black children tried to enroll in a whites high school

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Operation Dixie

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CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) attempt to unify the textile and steel workers - didn’t work because of racial mixing

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Taft Hartley Act

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All jurisdictional conflicts were to be resolved by the unions themselves, people must take a non-communist oath, outlawed the close (all union) shop, slowed growth of organized labor

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Employment Act of 1946

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government was to promote maximum employment, established the Council of Economic Advisors

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GI Bill

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made provisions for sending soldiers back to school; Veteran’s administration got money to give out in loans to farmers to buy houses, businesses, etc

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Factors that led to America’s economic prosperity

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cheap energy control of Middle East, advanced computing technology, better education

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Sun belt frost belt

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sun belt - 15 states in the southeast and southwest (it’s smiling)
frost belt - 35 states in the northeast; rust belt ohio valley area

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Levittown builders

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builders who built several thousand houses on a single project; uniform and monotonous but efficient

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baby boom

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a huge raise in the population following the end of World War II

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Yalta Conference 1945

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Final plans laid between FDR, Stalin and Churchill and German lines; Stalin agrees to set up representative government in Poland; bulgaria romania were to have free elections; more of a test of reactions than anything else

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Bretton Woods Conference

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established IMF - regulated currency exchange rates to increase world trade, established World Bank to help the underdeveloped, and established GATT General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade to remove international trade barriers

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United Nations

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worked to arbitrate international disputes, improve standards of living worldwide, and encourage land decolonization in Asia and Africa; designed to prevent another great-power war, provided that no member of the Security Council dominated by the Big Five Powers (US Britain, China, USSR, France) could have action taken against it without its consent and a general assembly which featured smaller countries; created Israel, WHO, UNESCO

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Nuremburg War Trials

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Tried some of the top nazi leaders for war crimes

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Soviets in 1948 tried to starve West Germany by ____

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cutting off railway and trains; resulted in the Berlin Airlift until May 1949

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George F Kennan

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coined the term containment and believed that the Russians were expansionary and only containment could stop them

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Truman Doctrine

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created mainly in response to Greece and Turkey risking falling to communism, if a country of free people is threatened by outside pressure US can intervene

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Reinhold Niebuhr

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coined the light children and the dark children (US and Hitler Stalin)

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Marshall Plan 1947

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Allowed countries aid if they accepted outside control and political reform - USSR rejects offer

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Israel is created

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May 14th 1948

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National Security Act

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created the Department of Defense and established the National Security council to advise the president and CIA

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Selective Service System

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19-25 year range draft

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NATO

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formed April 4th 1949 an attack on one is an attack on all

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General Douglas MacArthur

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led the Pacific campaign, in charge of Japanese re-construction, eventually heads the invasion of Korea

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Loyalty Review Board

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Established by Truman, investigated alleged communists holding government jobs

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McCarran Internal Security Bill

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1950 Truman vetos: which allowed people to arrest and detain supsicious people in internal secuity emergencies

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Republican Candidate 1948

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Thomas E. Dewey

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Point four

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fourth pt from truman inaugural address - gave money to underprivileged from becoming communists instead of having them become Communist and then forcing to shoot them thereafter; also launched Fair Deal

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NSC 68

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Allowed US to quadruple defense spending; overreaction towards Korea but step in rearming the US

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USSR absence from UN Security Council on June 25th 1950

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Truman makes North Korea an aggressor and render assistance from UN members to restore peace
General Douglas MacArthur in Japan is ordered to attack and take back land and the Korean War ensues

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White collared workers outnumbered blue collared workers in 1956

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Blue collared worker- laborers white collared workers- paid salaries usually in service (again more women)

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Betty Friedan

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wrote Feminine Mystique which challenged the traditional cult of domesticity of women as housewives at the time

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McCarty finally attacked the ____ and the army fought back in 35 days of televised hearings in 1954

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US Army

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Emmett Till

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lynched by a mississippi mob for leering a white woman

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Paul Robeson Josephine Baker

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traveled around the world saying how bad jim crow laws mader america and how communism was somewhat better

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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MLK attempts to mobilize the Christian Churches

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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extension of the Sit In Movement in which students protested for equal rights

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Eisenhower’s philosophy

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Dynamic conservatism

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Operation Wetback

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ended the braceros program and sent 1 million Mexicans back to Mexico

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Federal Highway Act of 1956

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created over 42,000 miles of new highway

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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles promised not to stem the red tide but to roll back its gains and liberate the captive - balance the budget too by cutting spending

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look more up on this guy ; suggested SAC have superbombers instead of an army

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnam’s leader, originally wanted self determination after WWI, after WWII became communist and held off french in Indochina War; Vietnam separated by 17th parallel

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US instantiates Shah Pahlevi

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as shah of Iran to get their share of oil

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Eisenhower Doctrine in 1957

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pledged US military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist agresion

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Irq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwai, and Iran joined in Venezuela in 1960 to form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coutnries

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Irq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwai, and Iran

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spirt of Camp David

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progress twoards peace with Eisenhower and Kruschev but ruined by U2 Incident

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Fidel Castro

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Dictator of cuba takes over in 1959 and makes friends with Kruschev

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Kennedy referred his proposed organization as

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the New Frontier

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St Lawrence Waterway

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industrialized the Great Lakes by making it have more ports

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