Post War Society

Question 1

How much money was spend during WW2 by 1950?

Answer 1

$13 billion on education, training, housing and business loans

Question 2

What was Trumans Fair deal?

Answer 2

Continued legacy of Roosevelts New Deal

Question 3

What did Trumans Fair Deal Introduce?

Answer 3

Desegregation through executive order 9981 in 1948
Almost double the minimum wage, from 40 cents to 75 cents per hour

Question 4

What did Trumans Fair Deal fail to Introduce?

Answer 4

A national health insurance scheme - rejected by republicans
Get any civil rights laws passed in Congress - southern powerful Democrats opposed

Question 5

How did popular culture change in the 1960s?

Answer 5

1960 87% of homes in America owned a TV - cheaper more affordable - national popular culture

Question 6

What was McCarthyism?

Answer 6

A forceful campaign against alleged communists in the US government during 1950-4 - repression of left wing individuals

Question 7

What and when was the second red scare?

Answer 7

After the 1947 Truman Doctrine where containment was pledged
After China became communist - it is McCarthyism

Question 8

What was the HUAC?

Answer 8

House Un-American Activities Committee - tasked with uncovering and identifying communist threats. Alger Hiss - exposed as a Soviet spy - convicted and imprisoned in 1950

Question 9

What was the NAACP?

Answer 9

The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
Used a range of tactics, including litigation, to fight for equality

Question 10

What happened at the brown vs board case 1954?

Answer 10

NAACP’s lawyers won the court case, ruling that “separate but equal had no place in education” showed that segregation generally was losing its lawfulness.

Question 11

What happened at The Little Rock crisis, 1957

Answer 11

After Brown v Board of Education ruling some school boards began to desegregate. September 1957 9 African American students attempted to attend Central High School in Little Rock - received much prejudice, Eisenhower sent 1000 American Soldiers to protect them

Question 12

Who was Emmett Till, why was he important?

Answer 12

14 year old boy who was brutally murdered after a false accusation. The jury ruled his murderers as innocent

Question 13

What was the The Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 13

Response to Rosa Parks, NAACP and Women’s political council organised a boycott of the city’s buses. Elected Dr Martin Luther King as leader until the city met its demands1956 the Supreme Court
ruled that segregated buses were illegal after the 381-day boycott

Question 14

What was the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Answer 14

Outlawed discrimination in public places and employment - effectively ended Jim Crow segregation

Question 15

What was the 1965 Voting Rights Act?

Answer 15

Protected the right to vote for everyone - literacy tests and intimidation to not vote was illegal

Question 16

What was the 1968 Civil Rights Act?

Answer 16

Guaranteed their civil rights - banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing

Question 17

What was Non-violent direct action?

Answer 17

To protest for civil rights, people used civil disobedience. People remained peaceful, especially in the presence of violence. Public displays of violence they experience were broadcasted and put pressure on the government to intervene.

Question 18

What was a notable protest in Greensboro 1960?

Answer 18

Black students sat in white only cafeterias - sit-ins - 50,000 students had participated in these protests

Question 19

What was the SNCC?

Answer 19

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Taught students how to be peaceful against violent discrimination - led and took part in numerous civil rights campaigns

Question 20

What was the SCLC?

Answer 20

Southern Christian Leadership Conference - “redeem the soul of America” through non-violent resistance

Question 21

What was the March on Washington 1963?

Answer 21

250,000 - for jobs and freedom - televised across the nation - famous speech “I Have a dream” was delivered

Question 22

Who was Malcom X?

Answer 22

Powerful public speaker - confronted segregation - assassinated in 1965

Question 23

What was a famous speech in 1966 that popularised black power?

Answer 23

SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael popularised the phrase ‘Black Power’ during a speech in Mississippi

Question 24

What was the Black Panther party?

Answer 24

Black Panthers believed that non-violent protest would not fully give freedom or self-determination - used their constitutional right to openly carry a weapon