Final Exam Flashcards
HUAC’s purpose
The purpose was the expose the communist
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Electric chair= atomic bomb info leak
Alger Hiss
Used to be a spy; part of FDR’s team wasn’t arrested
McCarthyism
Unfair allegations and investigation
Who to remember from Hollywood Ten?
Dalton Trumbo: Wrote Roman holiday
Blacklisted
Weren’t allowed to be employed in Hollywood
Reactions to the atomic bomb?
Bomb shelters and Duck and cover
Why did the baby boomer age happen?
Great Depression
Couldn’t afford to wait
Prosperity
How did gender roles relate to the Cold War?
- Told woman to stay at home
Cold War Propaganda
- Nuclear Family came out of it
- Women play her role, the man plays his, everybody does what they are supposed to do and we’ll win the Cold War
Why was prosperity part of the baby boomers?
Gi bill & Military spending (cost)
Why was the GI Bill successful?
It enabled soldiers to steer toward the education system
White-Collar Vs. Blue-Collar
White-collar wears a suit and has an office.
Blue-Collar does manual labor; outside
White-collar make more money so they pay more taxes
American Dream in the Suburbs
Conformity: all houses looked the same
William Levitt
- Father of Modern American Suburbia
- Made Levittowns, mass-produced housing (all looked the same)
What did the home represent?
- Comfort from the fear of the Cold War
Elvis Presley
King of Rock
Alan Freed
- First white R&B DJ
- Credited for the term Rock & Roll
Why was Rock & Roll important?
Why was Rock & Roll a common culture?
- Represented rebellion against parents
- Common culture for black and white teenagers
Rosa Parks
Bus rider that led to the bus Boycott
- Leader of that boycott was Martin Luther King
Thurgood Marshall
- Represented Brown V Board
- First black supreme court justice
- selected by President Johnson
Earl Warren
- Chief Justice
- expanding civil rights, civil liberty, and judicial power
Little Rock Nine
9 students in Little Rock wanted to go to the white high school but they were turned away. They thought they could go because of Brown V. Board of education.
- Mass of resistance comes out of Brown V. Board
- Eisenhower
Jackie Robinson
First Black man to play for a white baseball team
Seeds of discontent for the civil rights movement post-WW2?
- Still being segregated
- Blacks and women soldiers didn’t get the Gi Bill
When did Jim Crow begin?
Compromise of 1877
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal
Southern Manifesto
- After the supreme court accusation of abuse of power
- Answer to Brown V Board
- Resistance of southern congressman as a result of Brown V Board
Who participated in March on Washington?
Martin Luther King
What did television represent?
Escapism
How did consumerism have to do with television?
- TV encouraged products to be bought
What were purchasing habits based on?
- Television sitcoms that portrayed wealthy families
- affluence
What changed the face of politics?
The face of television
First campaign ad on television
Eisenhower
Thomas Dewey
- Ran against FDR
- Famous photo that shows Truman holding up a newspaper that says Dewey wins, but Truman actually won
What was Eisenhower the father of?
Modern Interstate
Who enacted the GI Bill?
FDR
What case did Brown v Board reverse?
Plessy v Ferguson
What amendment did Brown v Board reverse?
14th amendment
Gideon v Wainwright
Right to counsel
Loving v Virginia
Interracial marriages
Miranda v Arizona
Right to hear your rights
Plessy v Ferguson
- Basis for Jim Crow
- based on the 14th amendment
- separate but equal
- One of the worse supreme court decision ever
13th Amendment
Emancipation of slaves
14th Amendment
Equal rights under the offer of all citizens
15th Amendment
Right for all men to vote
Where did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment come out of?
Civil War
Which president enacted the Civil War Amendments?
Eisenhower
Browder v Gayle
- Supreme court decision coming out of Montgomery bus boycott
- Segregation of public transportation
38th Parallel?
Divison of North and South Korea
How did the Korean War end?
Stalemate: nobody won
Who backed the North Korea and who backed South Korea
Communist backed North
US backed the South
What happened to Doulas Mcarthur during the war?
He was removed from command
MASH represented what?
Hospitals, mobile units
Harry S Truman
- He dropped the atomic bomb
- The first president to appear on television
- President during the Korean War.
Which military leader did Truman fire?
Mcarthur
What was Eisenhower known for?
- Interstate Act
- Civil Rights Acts
- First president to run candidate ads on television
Nixon
- HUAC made his career
- First debate to be broadcasted
- Vice President under Eisenhower both terms
Lyndon Johnson
In regards to Thurgood Marshall
JFK
First Presidential debate on television
FDR
Signed the GI Bill
Reconstruction of Japan
Mcarthur
Benjamin Spock
Best selling book about babies during the boomer age
Who did Alaska and Hawaii become states under?
Eisenhower
Mcarthur
- Accusing the army Was his downfall
- dies of chronic alcoholism.
- The Senate formally censured him
- Leader of the NATO US forces
