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Cold war

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  • idelogical power struggle between US and soviet Union

- would fight in proxy wars for more than 30 years

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democracy

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  • type of gov that the West used

- people chose who represented them

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communism

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  • type of gov that East used
  • the people had no representation
  • only the rich and powerful
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capitalism

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  • how the US econ operated
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NATO

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  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

- alliance against communist expanision

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Warsaw Pact

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  • the alliance for the communist countries
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Marshall Plan

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  • US pumps money into countries ravaged by WW2

- blank check for countries to recover and build back

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Truman doctrine

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  • US gov gives $400 million to greece and Turkey to not turn Communist and so that they can invest into their country
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“containment policy”

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  • cap on water bottle

- US limits spread of communism around the world through Truman doctrine

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“Dixiecrats”

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  • southern democrats who didn’t like how army was being desegreated
  • nominate storm Thurman
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why would a country turn communist?

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  • deep poverty

- no hope or way out

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Korean War

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  • North vs South
  • US heavily intervened to keep democracy
  • proxy war
  • nothing really changed
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HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

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  • group of politicians trying to find communists in the US
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The rosenbergs

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  • gave nuclear secrets to Russia

- executed on treason

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McCarthy hearings

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  • accused many people of being communists

- many were blacklisted

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McCarthy’s Decline

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  • people watched on tv as mcCarthy would berate and bully people with no evidence and say that they were a communist
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GI bill

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  • helped returning WW2 soldiers re-integrate into life

- helped them secure loans and get jobs

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baby boomer movement

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  • 77 million babies born during this time

- lead to econ boom of housing

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cookie cutter homes

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  • neighborhoods of houses that looked identical
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interstate highway system

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  • built 40,000 mph of highway
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Mass culture

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  • everyone doing and liking the same things
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consumerism

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  • people going and spending more money than ever before
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election of 1952

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  • D Eisenhower won because people won and believed that he was the strongest on communism
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teen culture

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  • rebelious culture
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the beet culture

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  • counterculture movement
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Plessy vs Furguson

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  • supreme court case
  • said that separate but equal was constitutionally legal
  • paved the way for discrimination
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Brown vs Board of Education

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  • separate but unequal is unconstitutional

- supreme court said that schools had to be integrated

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Exectutive order 9981

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  • Truman’s order to integrate the US military

- very controversial in the south

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thurgood Marshall

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  • attorney in brown vs board of education

- later on became the first African American supreme court justice

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Montgomery bus boycotts

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  • protests over how blacks how to give up their seats to whites
  • went on for over a year
  • eventually the city changed its laws
  • led to the rise of MLK
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Rosa Parks

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  • refused to give up her seat
  • became a leader in the civil rights movement
  • many people looked up to her
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Little Rock 9

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  • 9 black students tried to enter into Central High School
  • governor tried to block the students from entering
  • IKE sends in the troops to let them in
  • governor eventually shuts down the school district
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civil rights act of 1957

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  • passed to investigate civil rights violations
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SNCC (student non-violent coordinating comittee)

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  • students who worked together
  • organized sit ins
  • whites and blacks
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SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference)

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  • MLK was part of this group

- mostly older black parishioners who believed in non violent protest

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john foster duller

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  • IKE secreatry of state
  • thinks containment is bad policy and US needs to push back agianst communism
  • led to US intervening in countries
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domino theory

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  • if US allows one country to fall to communism than all the surrounding countries will fall as well
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crisis in middle east

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  • CIA helps Mahmmed Reza Pahelevi to get elected in Iran

- he provided the US with cheap oil in exchange

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suez canal crisis

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eisenhower doctrine

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  • policy of containment

- prevent Russian infiltration into Middle east

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jacobo arbenz

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  • guy who nationalized the gov in gautamala and got the US very scared
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Lyndon B johnson

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  • preseidnet after JFK
  • got a lot of stuff done because of his past experience as a politician
  • related to poor people a lot because of how he grew up in poverty
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The great society

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  • domestic programs that provide assistance to people in need
  • extension of new deal
  • makes education more accessible
  • better health care for elders
  • immigration reform
  • gaurantee of voting rights
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racical discrimination

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  • heart of atlanta motel case
  • challenges civil rights act
  • since it was a private company they said they could legally discriminate people
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great society congress

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  • all parts of gov were controlled by democrats
  • gov helped the average american
  • poverty rate declined
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“headstart program”

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  • free preschool
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voting rights act of ‘65

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  • gauranteed the right to vote for all and fixed problems such as grandfather clause and poll tax
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medicare

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  • healthcare for seniors
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medicaid

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  • healthcare for poor

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