Final Exam History Flashcards
Final Exam for History II
Fifties Presidents
Harry Truman (1945-1952) Dwight Eisenhower (1952-1960)
Harry Truman
President from 1945-1952
Good President, not great one
President after FDR died
President for 7(1/2) years
from state of Missouri
Democrat
“Haberdasher President”
called haberdasher if you owned a men’s clothing store
Went to law school and became a county judge
became u.s. senator
picked him to be Vice President by FDR in his last term
Lived in a very common house, and was a very common man
he would give good answers to news reporters on current affairs
had a sign on his desk that said “the buck stops here” to mean that he wont allow anything to pass him by, he will take the final decisions, and when he makes one decision he stick to it and wont think about it anymore.
Dwight Eisenhower
1952-1960
Successful President
Good president, not great
WWII hero from D-Day
father moved along with the RR and he moved througout all of the states, thus no state association
common home, nothing exceptional about him
he was a war hero, so both parties wanted him to run for both of them
finally decided to run for a republican
parties weren’t that far apart
frequently ill as president since he was very old and he had a very bad heart and had several heart attacks while in office
Doctors would ask him to relax
vicepresient ran the coountry most of time since Eisenhower was ill
Nixon was the vice president and was very good president after getting elected for president himself, since he knew very well what it asked for
Unchallenged leader politically and economically during the 50s
U.S.
Never before or since has America been so powerful to the rest of the world as we were at that time
Monopoly of Nuclear Weapons
Things that helped keep the U.S. at height of its power
Only major power that is not devastated by WWII
Things that helped keep the U.S. at height of its power
Locate the U.N. at New York City
Things that helped keep the U.S. at height of its power
Economic Powers
Steel, Coal, Concrete, Automobiles, Airplanes, Electricity, Leading creditor nation
Economic Boom
Housing boom
Auto boom
G.I. Bill
Housing Innovations
Housing Boom
led to economic boom
houses were in huge demand after the was since itwas forbidden for poeple to build homes during the war to conserve supply
Autoboom
autos were in huge demand since cars too were prohibited from being built during the war
G.I. Bill
Government guaranteed home loans to vets.
every veteran could get a guaranteed loan to start a business or a farm
gave every veteran money to go to college
smart to pay college since about 4-6 million went to college and they didnt get emidete benefits and gave more in income tax after they graduated as their jobs were a post inductiral job and earned more. also, it was to help rise the jobs to a post industrial society
Housing Innovations
Movbile home solution to build millions of homes
sububs became popular in america
style of home in the U.S. changed to the ranch style home
First Subub
levittown, new york and becomes the model for most of all the suburbs and was built outside New York City by developed Levit
Ranch Style home
no contact with neighbor
leads to a real change in lifestyle in the U.S.
The Baby Boom
1946-1960
led to booming economy
Low birthrates in the United States
Causes of baby boom
due to the depression of the 30’s because families didnt want to have children while in poverty and with war in the early 40’s
How did the baby boom help the economy?
helps to provide jobs for teachers, nurses, hospitals, and large consumer market
Effects of baby boom today
strain on the government welfare for the elderly as large number of people from the baby boom are now retiring.
TV
Invented in the 1930’s by a large team of British scientist
first public display in 1939 in the world fair, and amazed everyone, but WWII starts at the time and so the TV wasn’t useful for the war so the scientists were redirected to radar
TV first introduced in america
1946
By 1960, ______% of the U.S. had a TV. The ______ was really small at first and in _______ only, but in 1960 _____ was introduced as well.
90%
Screen
Black and White
Color
Signal for TV was _______
from a tower directed to your T.V.’s antenna, and the quality of the image was very bad. If you were in the city you would have rabbit ears in you TV. if you were out of town it would be a large antenna on the roof of the house
NBC
CBS
ABC
National Broadcasting Corporation
Columbia Broadcasting System
American Broadcasting Corporation
First three channels and TV corp. in the United States
TV influence in the U.S.
Huge impact in american society
family situation comedy offered during the prime time in the united states
Prime Time for the T.V.
7 P.M.-10 P.M.
Leave it to Beaver
Family comedy show during prime time
Ozzy & Harriet
Family comedy show during prime time
Father Knows Best
Family comedy show during prime time
WASP values
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant values portrayed in the first TV shows to show supreme model for american families
Model Wife
housewife
ready for kids
takes care of the kids
bakes
Model Husband
white collar father
educated
makes good money
post industrial society goal
Model # of Children
only two children
FCC
Federal Communication Commission
Strict rules and reviewed program to have them obeyed
couldn’t show people drinking alcohol
late night show was shown drinking coffee, but it was really beer, but couldn’t show beer
no nudity nor sexual act shown on T.V.
love scene prohibited showing both people together in the bed
list of words that couldn’t be said, such as damn and hell
Violation of the FCC
Jack Carr
used word damn
headlines in the newspaper
FCC warned him to not use that word again or he would be fired and prohibited from coming out from TV
but he still did it
thus, he was fired and removed completely
and taken off from the middle of the show and replaced
TV intelligence
Set below average to have everyone understand, while in the UK it was set above average
Fifties Famous Names
Jonas Salk
J.D. Salinger
Jonas Salk
Found Vaccination for polio and made him national hero
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
most loved book of the last decades
Jacky Robinson
First Black baseball player in the major leagues in 1947
Humphrey Bogart
Greatest Actor of the 1950s and was most famous for the movie Casablanca
Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan TV Show
most popular T.V. Show on Sunday night and he would introduce new talents to the U.S. Population
he introduced Elvis Presley, the Beatles,
Joseph MaCarthy
u.s. senator from Wisconsin and began a red scare in the United States, 1950-1954
Events that set Red Scare off
1949 Russia exploded an atomic bomb
and McCarthy thinks that some spies must have passed the secret to the russians becuase only that would explain how the Russians found out how to build the Atom
Bomb.
China turns communist in 1949
Red Scare search for Communists–Where?
Unions
State Department
Hollywood; actors and directors placed suttle proganda to turn the u.s. communist
HUAC
House Unamerican Activities Community
Get actors and communists and will grill them to tell who was communist
Richard Nixon became famous out of this and also Ronald Reagan became famous out of this situation with HUAC
Screen Actors Guild
Union that represents actors and actresses in the United States, and was lead by Ronald Reagan
Alger Hiss
State Department advisor to FDR and was the lead advise, was a russian spy
caught after he would steal the plans that the Government would make by typing them up in his personal typewritier and go out to the woods or to the park and he would hide it in the trash can, under the rock, or in the hollow hole in the bark of a tree, and he would pretend to be a bird watcher while doing this to use binoculars to search erea to make it clear, but after planting the secrets the next day a russian spy would go by and pick it up, but one day the FBI found one of the messages, so they traced the typewriters finger prints based on the keys and the unique typing form of the person to Alger Hiss and he was convicted
Julius & Ethel Rosenburg
Husband and wife and were Jewish–Americans that worked on the Manhattan project, but they were spies of russia
they were tried and executed in the electric chair for their treason
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that called for segregation after the passage of the ammendment to the constituition garanteeing liberty to the slaves
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
Plessy is 1/8 blakc and was asked to go to the jim crow car of the train, but he refused because he was only 1/8 black and was more white than black, but he was arrested nonetheless. he then sues ferguson because he is 7/8 white and he is white and keeping races was illegal. result of court case was that 1/8 of minority you are the minority, seperate, but equal clause in american law
Partial Integration of Armed Forces
During WWII by order of FDR, they mostly worked in the engine rooms and in the kitchen
Full Integration of Armed Forces
1948, ordered by truman
McLaurin v. Oklahoma Regents of Higher Education
1950
Segregation in education
McLaurin got a Bachelor’s, and Masters in Ed., wanted a Doctorate of Ed., but was offered by U. of Oklahoma, but was an all white school. Under the Seperate but equal law they accepted him, but he was kept seperate while at school
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Linda Brown sued Topeka Board of Education in 1954 after linda was forced to go to a seperate school farther from her home.
Thurgood Marshall sent to represent Linda Brown
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
all schools integrated
by order of President Eisenhower
Martin Luther King Jr.
Used method of Ghandi
sit-in and boycotts, but all non-violent protests
height at 1963 with “I have a dream” speech
Civil Right Act
1964
Passed by Johnson
Ends Segregation in America
Civil Rights Movements turn Violent–why?
Leaders were assasinated
John & Robert Kennedy assassinated
MLKJR. assassinated
Malcom X assassinated
Black Panthers
Dedicated to fight authority for civil rights
Riots
high in detroit, baltimore, DC, Watts saw the worse riotting
Affirmitive Action
Prefer blacks in positions so the blacks could catch up to the whites
Bakke v. Univerisyt of California Regents
1976
Bakke was white vietnam vet. from minnesota and was in minnestoa univeristy and went to standford university and applied for university of california medical school which only take 100 students who have a certain composite score of the GPA, MCAT, and Interview. Bakke didnt get accpeted first year, didnt get in second year, discrimination upon being white and hasn’t ended up until this day
The Cold War
1946-1990
U.S. & Soviet Union (S.U.) totally different
Causes of the Cold War
U.S. democratic; S.U. 1 Party Dictatorship
Differences between the U.S. & Soviet Union
Capitalist U.S.; S.U. Communist
Differences between the U.S. & Soviet Union