History
History 2111 with Papageorge at Kennesaw State University
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Harry Truman
President: poor, no college, amered forces
600,000
By 1950, armed forces were demobilized down to
After WWII
Strikes were highest in History
Threatened to draft strikers
What did Harry Truman do in response to strikes?
Democrat
Harry Truman was a?
Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress
What happened with the Congressional elections of 1946?
Taft-Hartley Act
Which act in 1947 restricted the labor of non-union workers?
Many firms migrated south
What were the effects of the Taft-Hartley act?
United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France, China
Which nations made up the United Nations?
They did not withdrawal troops from Eastern Europe
How did the Russians violate the Yalta agreements?
Vyacheslav Motolov
Who was the Foreign Soviet Minister?
George F. Kennan
Who formulated the containment policy?
Marshall Plan
1948: $13 billion in economic aid to all European countries. Help control communism.
Britain, France, America
Which allies merged with West Germany?
Berlin Wall
Blockade cutting off power to East Germany from West Germany
United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, West Germany
Who were the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
NATO
Pledges signers agree to treat an attack against one as an attack against all.
Discrimination against German Nazis, Italian Fascists, Japanese Imperialists
What were the influences of WWII and Cold War on race relations?
Harry Truman
Who desegregated the military in 1946?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first black professional baseball player?
Liberals: Not strong enough. Conservatives: Too radical
What did the liberals and conservatives think about the New Deal coalition?
Thomas E. Dewey
New York Governor. Nominated by republican party for 1948 election.
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina Governor. Nominated by Dixiecrats for 1948 election.
Harry Truman
Who won the 1948 Presidential elections?
Harry Truman
Who said, "I don't give em hell, I tell the truth they think is hell"?
Higher minimum wage, social security coverage, new housing, etc.
What were the Fair Deal proposals?
Point Four
What helped undeveloped countries with UN, NATO, Marshall Plan?
Communist Government
1949: Gained control of China.
In 1949 after Russia detonated their first atomic bomb
When did Truman order the development of the hydrogen bomb.
North invaded South
Who invaded who first? North or South Korea?
South
Who did U.N. give aid to? North or South Korea?
Harry Truman
Who ordered American military into Korea without approval of Congress?
General Douglas MacArthur
Who commanded the U.N. forces?
No
Did Congress ever vote for a declaration of war against Korea?
He was too radical
Why was MacArthur dismissed?
1953: July 27
When was the truce signed ending the Korean War?
U.S.: 33,000 deaths, 103,000 wounded. North Korea/China: 1.5 million casualties. South Korea: 1 million casualties.
What was the aftermath of the Korean War?
They did not answer to communist questioning under the 1st amendment. They were blacklisted from Hollywood
What happened with the HUAC and Hollywood ten?
Whittaker Chambers
Who accused Alger Hiss of passing secret documents to the Soviet Union?
Joseph McCarthy. Republicans. Yes, more than 100 spies recruited by Russia.
Who stated that their were communists inside the U.S. departments? Who supported his claims? Was it true?
McCarran Internal Security Act
Which act passed over Truman's veto requiring communists to register with the general?
Doubled
Gross national product nearly ___ between 1945 and 1960.
Military spending, automation, consumer demand
What were the reasons for the post war growth?
Jobs to veterans. Generous subsidies loans for education.
What did the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 give?
Home owners increased 50%. Increased spending. Growth of corporations.
What happened post war?
Blacks moved to northern cities. Many blacks still couldn't get jobs.
What was the great black migration post war?
House Wife. Married at 16 with children. No job but lots of organizations. No.
What was the ideal wife in the 1950's? Did most fit the description?
The Affluent Society
Galbraith
The Crack in the Picture Window
Keats
The Lonely Crowd
Riesman
The Lonely Crowd
Inner vs Other directed.
The Affluent Society
Economic growth will not solve social problems.
The Crack in the Picture Window
Smashed suburban life.
Delinquents. Seeked anarchy.
Teens in the 1950's were
Rock n' Roll
Alan Freed, Elvis
Naysayers
Opposed rock n' roll
Death of a Salesman
1949: Play of sense of belonging and effection
Arthur Miller
Who wrote the play Death of a Salesman?
Not available to blacks
William Levitt's house were
Norman Vincent
Positive thinking/feel good religion
Critics of Conformists
David Riesman, Allen Ginsberg
The Beats
Originated in Greenwich Village, New York City. Embraced Life.
Jack Kerouae, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso
Who were the leading figures of the beats?
Dwight Eisenhower
Who declared "a time for change"
Dwight Eisenhower
Republican nominee for 1952 Presidential election
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic nominee for 1952 Presidential election
Retained most governships
Although the republicans won the election of 1952, the democrats
Dwight Eisenhower
Who won the Presidential election of 1952?
Chief of Staff and Supreme Commander of NATO
What was Eisenhower's career before 1952?
"do nothing" style
Dwight Eisenhower's leadership style was not a
Social Security Act
Eisenhower expanded the coverage of the
St. Lawrence Seaway
1959: Joint venture with Canada allowing ocean going ships to reach Great Lakes
Federal Aid Highway Act
1956: Federal provided 90% of highway funding while state provided 10%
He threatened to use atomic bombs
How did Eisenhower stop the deadlock in Korea?
Televised hearings. He said U.S. was still too soft on communism.
What led to McCarthy's downfall
The passed atomic secrets and were executed in 1953
What did the Rosenbergs and what happened to them?
Earl Warren
Who led an active court on issues of civil rights and liberties from 1953-1969?
John Foster Dulles
Who was Secretary of State under the Eisenhower administration? Peaceful. Did not want war.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Catholic nationalist who opposed both French and Viet Minh
Dwight Eisenhower
Who won the Presidential election of 1956?
Iraq withdrew
Why did the Middle East Treaty Organization fail?
British out of Egypt and Suez Canal
What did Nassar of Egypt order?
Israel, France, and Britain attacked Eygypt. U.S. sided with Egypt
What was the result of the demands from Nassar? Who did the U.S. side with?
Warsaw Pact
1956: Hungary withdrew from
Hungary. Imre Nagy
1958: Russian troop forced ___ back into communist fold and executed who?
Russia. Sputnik I. October 1957
Who launched the first satellite? What was it's name? When?
1958
When was NASA created?
National Defense Education Act
1958: Authorized federal grants fro training. (math, science, language, etc.)
Eisenhower Doctrine
1958: Promised Middle East armed forces against communism.
Russia. 1960: May 1
Who shot down American U-2 spy plane and when?
Suspended relations with Cuba
As one of Eisenhower's final acts as President, he
Brown Decision. Chief Justice Earl Warren
1954: "Separate but equal has no place." Who said this?
Martin Luther King and associates
1957: Who started Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Commission and new Civil Rights Division in Justice Dept
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Provided for fed court refs to register blacks where pattern of discrimination was found
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. High Schools shut down.
Who prevented black students from registering for high school? What was result?
Eisenhower
Who wrote the farewell address?
John Kennedy
Who won the 1960 Presidential election?
John Kennedy
Democratic nominee 1960
Richard Nixon
Republican nominee 1960
Richard Nixon
Tricky Dick
Kennedy
Who established Peace Corps?
Trade Expansion Act
1962: Kennedy's most significant legislative accomplishment leading to tariff cuts
1966
When did Miranda Warning begin?
Greensboro sit-ins
1960 Feb 1: 4 blacks demanded service at white restaurant
Freedom Riders
Congress of Racial Equality sent them on buses
Ross Barnette
Who refused to admit a black attend U of Miss?
George Wallace
Who refused to admit a black attend U of Alab?
1963: Aug 28
I have a dream speech date?
Bay of Pigs
Attempt to get cubans to rebel against Castro by landing forces at Cuba's bay. failure
Berlin Wall
Isolated East and West Berlin
Cuban Missle Crises
1962: Oct 14. Missiles discovered in Cuba
Imposes naval quarantine. Soviets withdrawal missles.
What does Kennedy do about CMC?
Dallas. 1963: Nov 22
When and where was John Kennedy's assassination?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who shot John Kennedy?
Jack Ruby
Who shot Lee Oswald?
Earl Warren
Who headed JFK's assassination investigation?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits seg in public
Barry Goldwater
Republican nominee for 1964?
Lyndon Johnson
Democratic nominee for 1964?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Allowed blacks to vote
James Earl Ray. 1968 April 4
Death of MLK
1968 June 5
Death of bro Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Rep nominee 1968
Hubert Humphrey
Dem nominee 1968
Students for a Democratic Society
1960: Tom Hayden and Al Haber. "we ppl of this gen"
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan founded
Nixon
Silent Majority
My Lai Mass
100,000 tons of bombs dropped Congress didn't know
Pentagon Papers
Published papers of defense dept veit war
Christmas Bombings
Bombings Dec 16, 1972 in Vietnam
Nixon
No blacks in Cabinet
SALT
Agreement on # of long range missiles
Jimmy Carter
Who won pres election of 1976?
Ford
Rep nom of 1976
Carter
Dem nominee 1976
Reagan
Wins 1980 election
Walten Mondale
1984 dem nominee
Bush
1988 Rep nom
Dukakis
1988 Dem nom
General Manuel Noriega
Indicted Drug Trade
About this deck
By: Patrick Batdorf
Created: 2011-12-07
Size: 142 flashcards
Views: 10
Created: 2011-12-07
Size: 142 flashcards
Views: 10
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