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Unit 8- Cold War, Civil Rights, Cultural Change Flashcards

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The Cold War

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War of threats between US and Soviet Union (Russia)

- attempt to establish world dominance

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Korean War

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War between North and South Korea. North Korea (communist) was supported by Soviet Union. South Korea (democracy) supported by US.

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Space Race

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Battel between US and Soviet Union to dominate Space.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba (90 miles from US). Created a sense of fear and needed to be deescalated.

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Red Scare

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American fear of communism and it spreading throughout the US

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Joseph McCarthy

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US congressmen accused government employees of being communist and created more fear during the Cold War (McCarthyism

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Baby Boom

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Increase in birth rate after WWII. Millions of babies were born

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GI Bill

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Allowed American soldiers to attend college for free

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Suburbs

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Small residential towns built outside of cities. meant to be perfect. 
- Supported new middle and upper class families (white)
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Levittowns

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Perfect suburbs with identical houses

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Interstate Highway Act

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Government funded Highways that connected major cities in the US. Allowed for quick and easy transportation across the country

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Television

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New technology allowed citizens to witness events live (by 1960 nearly all US households owned a television)

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Containment

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US policy to stop the spread of communism

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Civil Rights Movement

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Movement for African American equality (led by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy v. Fergusson

- Segregation is ILLEGAL

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Movement of African Americans to stop riding public busses to protest segregation

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SCLC

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Non-violent Organization led by Martin Luther King Jr

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Sit-Ins

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Organized protests at lunch counters to illustrate the violence of segregation

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Freedom Riders

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Black and White College students rode busses throughout the south to protest segregation

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Malcolm X

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African American Leader- protested violently

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Black Power Movement

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Used violence to demand equality (because nonviolence was too slow)

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Black Panthers

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Violent Black Power organization

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal to prevent people from voting

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Protected and guaranteed equal treatment of African Americans

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Vietnam War

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War between North and South Vietnam over communism

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Gulf of Tonkin

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US ships were “attacked” by North Vietnam. This led to US getting involved in the Vietnam War

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Gave President control over the military during Vietnam War

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Selective Service Act of 1964

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Draft of Americans for Vietnam war

  • massively unpopular
  • mostly targeted poor, working class americans
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Mai Lai Massacre

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US soldiers destroyed a Vietnamese village- events were televised

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Anti-War movement

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Movement (mostly young people) to protest the Vietnam War

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Counter Culture

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Going against the mainstream or dominant culture

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Rock and Roll

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Musical style popular with young Americans during 50s and 60s
- used to protest war.

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Great Society

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Government program created by LBJ to end poverty and promote racial equality

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Medicare/Medicaid

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Government provided healthcare for poor and elderly (Great Society)

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Food Stamps

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Government program to support needy families (Great Society)

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Silent Spring

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Book by Rachel Carson exposed the horrors of pesticides and the dangers to our environment

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Government organization to regulate environment

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