Midterms Flashcards
Communism LBJohnson quote
We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the communists set up any government in the western hemisphere
Presidents HTruman quote
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures
Presidents JFKennedy quote
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or I’ll, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, opposé any for to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge, and more.
Presidents LBJohnson quote
The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice (…) but that is just the beginning
Presidents KCDavis quote
Johnson proposed attacking racial injustice through economic and educational reforms and government programs aimed at ending the cycle of poverty
Civil rights movement DFarber quote
First, southern black took a stand against racial segregation, discrimination and their relative public submission to the racist status quo” and they” convinced the Democratic party and the federal government to put racial equality and social justice almond their highest priorities
Civil rights movement MLKing 1 quote
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the negro’s great stumbling block is not the white citizens council er or the ku Klux klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice
Civil rights movement MLKing 2 quote
I worked hard to get these people the right to eat hamburger, and now I’ve got to do something to help them get the money to buy them
60s ALoss 1 quote
The nuclear family was supposed to be a self sufficient social and economic entreprise, in which the division of labor between husband and wife was clearly defined
60s ALoss 2 quote
A typical middle class worker was “determined more by his sense of what was expected by the peers and by the organizational slot he occupied than by his own personal desires and aspirations
Vietnam war isserman and kazin quote
The Vietnam war was the longest the United states ever fought. It also proved the most demoralizing for Americans, plunging the nation into its most bitter civil conflict in a century
Beatniks KCDavis quote
By 1955 with ON THE ROAD Jack keroack 1922 69 would help lead a generation of ‘beats’ who broke social restraints, becoming self proclaimed outcasts from a nation that prized stability and ‘normality’ above all
Beatniks quote
Tune in. Turn on. Drop out
Women KCDavis quote
THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE explained to women that it wasn’t their choice but that they were “systematically barring them from becoming anything more than housewives and mother’s” and it described a “white middle class phenomenon”
Women quote
The personal is political
19th century
13, 14, 15 century
Plessy v Ferguson
LSD
1936
Ho Cho Minh, Hanoï speech independence
1945
Referendum Vietnam
1952
Rose parks boycott
1954
French surrender to VietMinh
1954
Equal pay act
1954 - 2009
Election pom ngo dinh diem
1955
Sclc founding
1957
Southern christian leadership conference
