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
Tom Hayden
Leader of SDS , voted and protested various university reforms and anti war shit
Weathermen
Radical branch of SDS extremist,
Violent
Alfred Kinsey
Scientist researched prevalence of taboo sexual patterns (gay, premarital sex, exc)
Contributed to changing attitudes concerning sex
NOW
Betty Friedan (famine mystique, problem with no name) Equal treatment for women
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT ERA
Supported by now , defeated as result of conservative scum
Tonkin gulf revolution
Give president unabridged military power without congress
Tet offensive
Turning point of American support of Vietnam as it is viewed as a tragedy on tv at home
Peace talks
Deadlocked, no ground gained
Hawks v doves
Hawks support war , viewed it as communism ,
Doves believe it was viet civil war
George Wallace
Conservative candidate, criticized liberals in house of rep.
Election of 1968
Showed American people’s preference now for peaceful conservatism
Vietnam under Nixon
Going in, Nixon had 500,000 troops and an unsupportive America.
Vietnamization, bombings, peace talks, armistice, detente
Nixon doctrine
Future Asian allies would receive us support , but without ground forces
SALT I
Treaty with soviets (thanks to chinese relations) to limit ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction
The new federalism
Nixon domestic policy
Family assistance plan (defeated)
Shift domestic programs from federal to state levels
30 billion block grants to local governments
Truman doctrine
Containment
Request for money to assist small countries of Greece and turkey against communism
American responsibility
