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Ho Chi Minh

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Kent state

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May 4 1970
Natl Guard kills 4, wounds 9
Protesting invasion of Cambodia

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Vietnamization

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-Shift burden of war to S.Vietnam
-resumed bombing raids but began troop withdrawal

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1964 election

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LBJ won election against Goldwater in landslide

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‘Viet-cong’

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National Liberation Front, S.Vietnamese opposed to Diem
-emerged after falling off of 1956 election

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What effects did Anti-Communism have on Ameican culture.

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-Americans were extremely paranoid of communsists due to anticommunist rhetoric from gov and media
-families built bomb shelters during cold war.
-Trend toward conformity to avoid suspicion of being different.
-Hollywood was making anti-comm movies while down playing unappealing aspects of us.

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A.Philip Randolph

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Planned march led to establishment of FEPC. Fair Employment Protection

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Dixiecrats

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Southern Dems formed Dixiecrats for 1948 election. Mad at Pres Truman for civil rights actions.

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Brown v Board of Ed

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-1954, Thurgood Marshall, Atty for NAACP
Challenged Plessy v Ferg (seg) and won.
-Chief Justice Earl Warren, unanimous decision

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Southern Manifesto

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Southern states mad about the overturning of segregation urged states to resist forced integration.

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thurgood Marshall

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Attorney or NAACP in Brown v Board of Ed
-proved segregation caused psychological damage

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montgomery Bus Boycott

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-Dec 1955-lasted 381 days, began after Rosa Parks
-Led by MLK
-tremendous violence against oycotters. Mlk house bombed
-ended when SC outlawed segregation in public transit, dec 1956

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SNCC

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-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-sit ins

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Little Rock Central

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-Fed court ordered Little Rock schools to deseg.
-Gov used Natl Guard to keep 9 black kids out.
-Eisenhower sent in fed troops to enforce order.

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Bay of Pigs

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-ClA plan under eisenhower
-train cuban exiles
-massive failure
-drove cuba closer to ussr

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Berlin Crisis

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1961-Khrushchev orders france, uk, us out of W Berlin. Builds wall

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Cuban missile crisis

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Oct 6, 1962-US spy planes see USSR nuke base in Cuba
-JFK televisied speech for USSR to remove missiles to avoid war
-Agreement as long as US doesn’t invade Cuba
-1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty- banned atmospheric muke testing-1st nuke international agreement

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Freedom Rides

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-1961, interracial CORE group goes to deep south to enforce desegregation.
attacked by mobs in Anniston, ALabama and Birmingham
-attacked by kkk and cops in Birmingham
-SNCC took over

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Birmingham 63

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-MLK led movement to deseg Birmingham
-childrens crusade-1000 school children demonstrated and 959 arrested.
- Attacked by police dogs/firehoses.
-televised, shocked the nation
-desegregated may 10, 1963
-JFK sent troops
-medgar evars killed june 63

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March on Washington 63

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March for ‘jobs and freedom’
-to urge passage of JFK rights bill
-Organized by A Philip Randolph
-MLK dream speech

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Freedom Summer 64

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1964 SNCC and CORE registering voters in the south
-3 civil right volunteers disappeared, bodies found 6 weeks later
-Plot by KKK and cops

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Selma Campaign

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JAN 1965-MLK joined voter registration campaign in Selma, AL.
-March from Selma to Montgomery protesting police killing, attacked by cops with gas, clubs, cattle prods, whips.
-3000 demonstrators turned into 25000 when reached Montgomery in Mar.

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Great Society

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LBJs plan. Economic Opportunity Act provided funds for:
-Greatest reduction in poverty in history
-Medicare/aid
-job corps
-head start preschool
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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LBJ asked congress to pass resolution due to false claim us ship attacked by vietminh
-Gave LBJ a blank check for military action in vietnam.

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Feb 1965-1972
-massive bombing of N Vietnam
-used more bombs than ww2 and Korea combined

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Malcolm X

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Killed in Feb 1965

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COINTELPRO

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FBI program to infiltrate and destroy activist groups.
Targetted MLK, Black Panthers

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Anti War Movement

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SDS Students for Democratic Society
-Rally in DC 1965, 25000 people
-Draft resistance in Vietnam
-Rallies burning draft cards, people flee to Canada.
-By 67, massive movement supported by RFK
-Robert Mcnamara sec def resigns

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Voting Right Act 1965

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-No literacy tests or other discrimination
-feds can register voters denied by counties.

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Detente

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-Opened relations with China and USSR
-SALT 1 strategic arms limitation treaty signed with USSR
-ABM- anti-ballistic missile treaty

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1976 Election

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Jimmy Carter wins

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Stagflation

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Carter-Declining economy, end of postwar boom

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OPEC

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OPEC embargo- oil prices quadrupled when embargo was lifted

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Nixon resignation

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Aug 74, Ford took over and pardoned Nixon

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SALT 2

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Carter- SALT 2 with USSR would limit missiles and bombers
-abandoned after USSR invasion of Afghanistan

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Iran-Contra

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-CIA trained contras to overthrow Sandanista govt of Nicaragua.
-Reagan ops sold arms to Iran, diverted funds to contras
-5 indictment, Reagan unharmed, Bush Sr pardoned everyone

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Watergate

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-June 1972, nixon reelection staff members caught breaking into dem HQ
-WashPost journalists broke the story
-Mar 73, burglars sentenced
-Congresional hearings to get Nixon White house tapes
-Saturday night massarce-when nixon refused to give tapes
-eventualy did, 18 min missing
-resigned after impeachmentAug 74

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Iranian hostage

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oct 79, Shah exiled and is admitted to US for treatment
-Iranians install Ayatalloah Khomeini, held 52 American hostages for 444 days.

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Earl Warren

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Chief Justice in Brown v Board, achieved unanimous decision

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counterculter

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hippies- rejection of 50s conformity
-culture rapidly changed- clothing,sexuality, media talking about taboo subjects
-divorce rates skyrocketed, health food

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1968 turmoil

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-Jan-Tet offensive
mar-LBJ withdraws from pres race- seeks peace deal in Vietnam
-Apr-MLK assassinated, riots across US
-June-RFK wins primary, killed right after
-Aug-violence at Dem convention
-Nixon wins election

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1968 election

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Nixon wins, rfk assassinated

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Tet offensive

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Jan 1968- massive attacks by Vietnamese on US strongholds in S.Vietnam
-Hurt LBJ politically, shocked America and undermined war support

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Pentagon Papers

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June 1971, Former denfese worked leaks secret ocuments on Vietnam war, revealed US lied to Americans about extent of involvement.
-Nixon sued to stop paper from printing
-SC ruled in favor of NYT,
-Congress passes War Powers Act

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how did the US get involved in Vietnam

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The US supported the corrupt Diem regime.
When LBJ came into office, The gulf on tonkin incident happened, and the US claimed that sufficient enough to invade vietnam. Invaded to suppress communism in N.Vietnam.

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Berlin Wall

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Built in 1961, torn down in Nov 1989 by east berliners

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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-no discrimination due to race religion nation, gender
-no seg in public facilities
-established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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How did the 1960s shape the remainder of the 20th century?

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-The counterculets of the 60s were an example of the rapidly changing culture and the hippie movement contributed to art and music
-The vietnam war and specifically the pentagon papers changed how Americans perceive the government, trust them less now
-The Civil Rights movement of the 60s helped to desegregate heavily racist areas of the country.

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