Peroid 8 Flashcards
Two China’s
Mao Zedong communist takeover America refused recognition until 79
Vietminh
Communist Vietnam nationalists
Douglas MacArthur
In charge of Japanese reconstruction
Flexible response
Kennedy policy, expanded military responses beyond nuclear power. Utilized green berets, exc
The other America
Michael Harrington put spotlight on poor America 1962
Great society
LBJ civil reforms, short term not liked, long term reform
Highway reform, enviernmental reform, immigration, black rights, women’s rights ,
Civil rights act of 1964
Rachel Carson
Silent spring, pesticides
Selma to Montgomery
Bloody Sunday, March for voting rights
LBJ sends protective federal troops
Malcolm x
Criticizes king as subservient to whites, advocates black violence, inspires black power
Stokely Carmichael
New chairman of SNCC
BLACK POWER and racial separatism
Black panthers
Black power , Huey Newton, bobby seale . Carry weapons
Voting rights act of 1965
Partially triggers watts riots, (directly caused by arrest of black by police)
Six day riot
King murder riots effect on whites
White backlash against civil rights movement/political votes
Warren court
Proponent of individual rights
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Liberal as f
Baker vs Carr
Unconstitutional for rural preference in state legislation houses
Equal representation for all men, one man one vote