Study Guide Flashcards
Rock and Roll
in 1950-1960 music was segregated, but young people started listening to black music, the older generation did not. People feared pop culture desegregation could change what the younger white generation holds to be good and true
Little Rock 9
Fall 1957 in Central Little Rock High School in Arkansas, 9 black high schoolers want to integrate the school, but local families, students, and militia are stopping the kids from going to school. Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne to escort the students and force desegregation. For a year, each black student had a soldier escort them to school to protect them. In result, White southerners hate Eisenhower and the Arkansas government wants to stop public education
101st Airborne
to escort the students and force desegregation
Emit Till
Violence and massive resistance become the way of resistance led by the KKK. In the summer 1955, 14 year old Emit Till visited a family in Mississippi. While there, he is accused of cat calling a white woman. Emit then goes missing, a few days later his body is found in the river, torn up and shot. This event becomes famous and brings to light bow the South is behind on the modern belief of justice and equality
Southern Manifesto
south isn’t bound by Brown decision. GA nulifles 14th and 15th amendments, changes state flag, nullifies Brown decision
Massive Resistance
takes form in violence by the KKK
Earl Warren
Great leader, previous governor of California, wants to overturn Plessy v.Ferguson
Brown v The Topeka Board of Education
NAACP finds 5 cases that go against Plessy v. Ferguson (case that established “separate but equal”) Rolls 5 cases into one
McLaurin v Oklahoma
Applies to University of Oklahoma and gets accepted, but is segregated from the student body. They sue and go to the Supreme Court. Court rules in favor of McLaurin
Sweatt v Painter
Sweatt applies to University of Texas for law school, doesn’t get in because he is black. Sues the school and goes all the way to the Supreme Court. Court rules in favor of Sweatt
Photograph Campaign
new way to fight Jim Crow
Charles Houston
1935 head attorney of NAACP, trains young lawyers (generation below him) that would become big in the 1960s, starts Photo Campaign to fight Jim Crow
Plessy v Ferguson
case that established “separate but equal”
McCarthyism
televised hearings between, United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Dixiecrats
segregational politics
GI Bill
gave education to veterans
Baby Boom
because of the strong economy families had a lot of children because they felt like they could support large families
Consumerism
“Cash & carry” consumer goods and foods policy. Pay up front and pick it up yourself
Korean War
fought between north and south korea
Arms Race
competition between us and russia for superiority
Berlin Air Lift
US flies 1 plane every minute 24 hours a day over West Berlin to give them supplies (Stalin gives up and ends blockade)
Marshall Plan
US will give money to any European country that asks for it to rebuild from the war Germany and Russia could ask (Russia doesn’t want money because that would be admitting that the US’s plan is better)
NATO
If someone in NATO gets attacked, all the other countries in NATO must help fight
National Security Act
Foreign Policy Change
Truman Doctrine
the US should aid nations or peoples that are under attack from Soviet troops
Containment
put pressure on communism to stop it from spreading without getting directly involved
Cold War
conflict without any physical fighting. US and Soviet Union (USSR) are very different and are the only world powers. Both don’t want to fight
“Iron Curtain”
a division between the West and Soviet Union
Yalta Conference
Churchill, FDR, Stalin meet at Yalta - war not over, but allies know they are going to win
