Unit 3 Vocab Flashcards
The Affluent Society
Book by John Kenneth Galbraith; denotes the loss of civic spirit and critiqued the wealth gap, felt the gov. had responsibility to the people who could not afford new technology
Levittowns
white-only mass-produced homes built in 1947 on Long Island, inspired many others
G.I. Bill of Rights
government program meant to help veterans pay for college and pay for their mortgages
Interstate Highway Act of 1956
act passed in govt. to build interstates across the country, used “defense” purpose to allow for federal management (defense as in moving weapons quickly)
Federal Housing Administration
long-term, low interest mortgage, federal mortgage guarantees (biased towards single-family suburban homes)
Brown v Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court decision to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson and outlawed segregation, tried to get unanimous decision through “deliberate speed”
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks and other NAACP members, eventually MLK, boycotted buses in order to cripple the bus economic system; in 1956 intrastate seg. on buses was made illegal
Sit-In Movement
1960, black college students begin to sit at white-only lunch counters, mass amount of people start to join
Civil Rights Act of 1964
passed by LBJ, barred discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
passed by LBJ, outlawed southern strategies of disenfranchisement and allowed Attorney General power to oversee voter reg. in any county where less than 50% of the population was registered to vote
The Black Power Movement
Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, March against Fear 1966
Cuban Missile Crisis
stalemate between USSR and US, soviet missiles places in Cuba, Kennedy negotiates to cool down crisis and agrees to remove missiles from Turkey if soviets remove missiles from Cuba
The Great Society
domestic program aimed at getting rid of poverty, LBJs version of the New Deal (Medicare, Dep. of Housing, Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity)
The Warren Court
Sat 1953-69, passed Brown v Board, Baker v Carr, Engel v Vitale (separation of religion in public schools), Gideon v Wainwright (attorneys to poor people)
Students for a Democratic Society
1962, published the Port Huron statement, strongly antiwar, affluent college kids
The Election of 1968
assassination of Bobby Kennedy, MLK assassination, George Wallace and white backlash, Eugene McCarthy and antiwar, “police riot” at DNC, Nixon and “Silent Majority”
Ho Chi Minh
won Vietnam’s independence from France, leader of North Vietnam and founded the Indochina Communist Party
Strategic Hamlet Program
would control the entrance and exit of villages to “protect them”, garnered a lot of resentment towards the war and US occupation
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
granted LBJ a lot of power in Vietnam and allowed him to do anything “necessary” to combat communism there
Tet Offensive
series of major surprise attacks from North Korea in 1968
War Powers Act
limits the power of the president, reestablished checks and balances essentially
Detente
Nixon’s attempt to ease foreign tensions
Watergate
Nixon “Plumbers” caught bugging in DNC, recorded tapes puts Nixon on the line for withholding information, Nixon resigns
Limited Hangout
tell some of the truth to better conceal other parts
Survivalism
movement by white, educated, and wealthy men and families who were afraid of inflation, nuclear war, communist takeover
New Hollywood
Lucas, Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg
Dr. Benjamin Spock
“Baby and Child Care” book in 1946, critiqued neglect and petitioned for more motherly care
Betty Friedan
Feminine Mystique, said the media was NOT liberating women but rather pushing them into trad roles
Second Wave Femininism
New Left, Miss America Protest, NOW, Ms. Magazine, Roe v Wade
Phyllis Schlafly
protested the ERA, advocate of family values, legitimate and alarmist concerns
Iran-Hostage Crisis
1979-81 when 66 Americans were siezed at the Embassy in Tehran and held until the very day Reagan was put into office
George Wallace
conservative populist, used race as a tool to divide, criticized the “undeserving poor”, attacked liberal establishment
Young Americans for Freedom
released Sharon Statement in 1960, believed communism was the biggest threat, rights should be delegated to the states, importance of market economy
Election of 1980
Ronald Reagan victory captured “Reagan Democrats”, centered on politics of sacrifice
9/11
September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in NY by Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden. Tensions in the Middle East
The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington’s thesis on replacing the cold war order, focused on Islam as a threat, self-fulfilling prophecy?
Oklahoma City Bombing
Bombing carried out by two men as a response to an “overstep” of federal government in the aftermath of Waco and Ruby Ridge; supported white nationalism and militia
USA Patriot Act
allowed more domestic and international “surveillance” for the federal gov. and allowed for indefinite detention time for immigrants, increased penalties for terrorism
