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Key Facts 1945-75 Flashcards

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when was Truman’s full employment bill?

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1945

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how many strikers were there under Truman and how did he deal with them?

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4.6 million

threatened to conscript rail workers

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what was Truman’s fairdeal?

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  • raised min wage
  • extended social security act
  • started slum clearance
    (many blocked by conservatives)
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what was Eisenhower’s aims?

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  • to continue fair deal and new deal
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5
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Which presidents were republicans?

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  • Ike
  • Nixon
  • ford
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which presidents were democrat?

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  • FDR
  • Truman
  • JFK
  • Johnson
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7
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What was Ikes operation wetback?

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deported 1.4 million Mexicans

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how many miles of interstate highway did Ike create?

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41,000 miles

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what did ike raise the minimum wage to?

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1 dollar to 1.25

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what was Kennedys new frontier?

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tried to unite the youth behind d him in a more fair and equal society

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11
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when was JFK’s civil rights bill rejected?

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1963

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when was the Brown v Topeka court case and what was it (Ike)?

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  • 1954

- desegregated schools

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13
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how many troops did JFK send to James Meredith?

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23,000

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14
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how much did JFK spend on public works?

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900 million

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15
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how did JFK try to post the economy?

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tax cuts to increase spending

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16
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when was Johnsons civil right act?

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1964 (end segregation)

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17
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when was Johnson voting rights act?

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1965 (stoped things like literacy tests to stop blacks voting)

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18
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how much did Johnson spend on Head start programme?

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1.5 billion

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19
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what did Johnsons medicare do?

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provide healthcare fo the elderly

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hoe did JFK continue the fair deal?

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continued improving inner city housing and minimum wage increase

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21
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what happened in the 1968 election?

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  • Nixon won vote of middle America who were afraid of activism
  • democrats didn’t have clear candidate
  • Deep South lost to independent party (civil rights)
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22
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how did Nixon try to help the economy?

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price and wage freeze

reduce Inflation

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23
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what did Nixon do for civil rights?

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  • not much

- by 1971 13 black congressmen and 81 mayors

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24
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what did the price of a barrel of oil increase to in the 1973 oil crisis?

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from $3 to $12

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what happened in the 1973 Watergate scandal?

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  • Nixon bugged democrats office and won 73 election by landslide
  • 5 members of CREEP prosecuted
  • president had to had in tapes (organically edited) that proved he had cheated
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26
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when was Nixon forced to resign?

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1974

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27
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how many new Levitt houses had been built by 1950?

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1.7 million (inner cities deteriorated)

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28
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what was the shopping mall increase?

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8 in 1946

4000 by late 50’s

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29
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what percentage of families had fridges, Washing machines and phones by 1951?

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90% had fridges

75% had washing machines and telephones

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when was the house committee on un-American activities set up?

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1938 (McCarthy took control in 1953)

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31
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hoe many were dismissed after Trumans board to investigate gov employees of communism?

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1200 in 4 years

6000 left

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32
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what was McCarthys downfall?

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  • investigated respected general Marshall
  • TV trial were seen as witch hunts
  • investigated the army after returning from Korea
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33
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how much of the population was below 24 by 1950?

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41%

34
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what was the teenage market worth by 1955?

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10 billion

35
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what was the hippie movement of the 70’s?

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  • protested the war, civil rights, gay rights

- refused to join army and took drugs

36
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what did the rock and roll movement of the 60’s cause?

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influenced language, sex, fashion, music, TV

caused teenage rebellion

37
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when did leaner Roosevelt create a commission to investigate women at work?

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1960

38
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who led to birth control of movement?

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Margaret Sanger

39
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what was Betty Friedan?

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  • wrote feminine mystique

- created NOW in 1966

40
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who much did NOW get In court for unequal pay cases?

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$30 million

41
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what was the women liberation movement?

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  • more radical feminist movement
  • wanted nothing to do with men
  • burned bras which mean they weren’t taken seriously
42
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when and what was the roe v wade case?

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1973
legalised abortion (with conditions dependent on each state)
43
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when was student for democratic society created?

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1959

44
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when and how many students march on Washington in protest of the war?

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1969

700,000

45
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when and what was Brown v Topeka?

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1954

desegregated education

46
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when and what was Little Rock?

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1957
9 black students prevented from entering white school by state authorities
Ike had to send to troops to stop state troops doing this

47
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when was the Montgomery bus boycott?

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dec 55 to dec 56 (after rosa parks on the bus)

48
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how many were involved in the 1963 civil rights march on. Washington (Martin king speech)?

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250,000

49
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who was Malcolm X?

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  • promoted black power - against kings peaceful approach
  • converted to islam. while in prison
  • killed giving speech after trying to create new muslim group
50
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when did SNCC move away from king with black power?

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1966 (economic differences from those living in ghettos)

51
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when were the black panthers created and how many members did they have?

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1966

5000 members by 1968

52
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how many native Americans served in ww2?

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25,000

53
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what was Ikes policy with natives in the 1950’s?

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assimilation - encouraged to leave reservations for cities

  • failed as by 1960 13k out of 400k had left reservations
  • AIM created in 1960
54
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when was the battle of wounded knee and what happened?

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  • 1973
  • lasted 71 days - declared themselves independent on 13th day
  • agreed treaty with government but gov went back on it straight away (AIM eventually disbanded)
55
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when did USSR teat first atomic bomb?

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1949

56
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how many overseas military bases did US have by 1959?

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1400 bases in 31 counties

57
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when was SALT 1 signed?

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1972

58
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when was the Truman doctrine?

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1947

59
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When was Marshall aid and how much was spent?

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1948

$13 billion

60
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when was the Berlin airlift?

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1948-49

61
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when was NATO signed?

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1949

62
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When did Khrushchev take over the soviets and sign Warsaw Pact?

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1955

63
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When was the Berlin Wall crisis?

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1961

64
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when was the Korean War?

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1950-53

65
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when did china become communist?

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1949

66
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when was the US Taiwan defence treaty?

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1954

67
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when did the US lift the trade embargo on China?

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1971

68
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when did Castro take power in the revolution within Cuba?

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1959

69
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when was JFK’s bay of pigs and what happened?

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  • 1961

- tried to regain control of Cuba by sending US exiles to start up rising against Castro - disaster

70
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when did Castro and Cuba become communist?

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1961

71
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when was the cuban missile crisis?

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1962

72
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when and why did JFK send 17,000 troops to Vietnam?

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1963

Criticised Ike for allowing spread of communism

73
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How was US relations with Stalin?

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  • FDR and Stalin friendly during the war as they allied against hitler
  • Truman didn’t want anything to do with Stalin (Kennan’s telegram)
74
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when was the gulf Tonkin revolution passed and why?

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1964

US ship Made was hit so out gave Johnson excuse to begin bombing north Vietnam

75
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when was the Set offensive and My Lai Massacre?

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1968

347 Vietnamese people killed ion massacre

76
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how many troops were in Vietnam by 1968?

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535,000

77
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when was the ceasefire In Vietnam in Paris?

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1973

78
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when did the communists defeat south Vietnam?

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1975

79
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how much was spent a Vietnam a year?

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$30 billion

80
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how many US troops were killed and injured in Vietnam?

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50,000 killed

300,000 wounded

81
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when and what was the Helsinki agreement?

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1975

US, USSR and 33 countries agree boundaries of east Europe and respect for basic human rights

USA History (1920 - 1975) (36 decks)

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