bella ramirez period: 7
12.1
It began at the Yalta Conference here, Churchill, Stalin and FDR met to discuss Europe’s future when WWII ended.
The Cold War Pitted the United States against the Soviet Union.
The Policy of Containment the Soviet’s either took over or set up puppet governments in many countries after WWII.
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12.2
Republicans passed the Taft-Hartley bill To keep workers from striking if it endangered the public good.
Truman got striking miners and railroad workers back to work by Threatening to draft them into the army.
After WWII Industries shifted from making war materials to consumer goods.
Korea was divided in half after WWII The Soviet Union controlled North Korea and The United States controlled South Korea
Hoping to unite the two Koreas
The Communist North invaded the Democratic South
Truman asked the UN to help free the South and gets it
General MacArthur leads the UN forces in the fight
12.4
After he cut the budget the federal budget had a surplus of $300M
The us and ussr seeing who could have the most nukes as called a arms rce
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13.1
Thurgood Marshall Challenged “separate but equal” in the court case Brown v Board of Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr. helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with 60 other ministers.
Segregation was legalized in the US by Plessy v. Ferguson.
Kennedy and Nixon took part in the first televised debate ever it would be 16 years before candidates would debate on TV again.
Kennedy won a very close election even though some were afraid to elect him because he was Roman Catholic
Kennedy’s Program was called the New Frontier he put forth a Civil Rights Bill, but it failed to pass through Congress.
13.3
n 1960, the Supreme Court ruled that bus stations could not be segregated It went further and said interstate busses (those that cross state lines) could also not be segregated.
The Fair Voting Act of 1965 was passed by President Johnson to ensure fairness in voting.
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were students who held sit-ins to put pressure on businesses to protest against discrimination.
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The first Latino group to fight for rights were migrant farm workers Cesar Chavez formed the United Farm Workers, the first union of its kind
The Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 Allowed reservations to make laws on their own lands
The Civil Rights movement helped many groups. None more than women The Equal Pay Act kept employers from paying men more than women for the same job.
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Eisenhower cut federal spending
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14.1
The Berlin wall separated East and West Berlin
In 1962 A U.S. spy plane discovered the Soviets building launch sites for nuclear missiles.
Kennedy ordered Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
After North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam
America gradually began to escalate our support of the South.
In 1964 North Vietnamese patrol ships attacked American ships. This became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
Ho Chi Minh wanted a united, Communist Vietnam
The Vietcong was his guerilla army
Attacks on the Vietnamese New Year north Vietnamese forces attacked both the ancient capital of Vietnam Hue, and current capital Saigon as well as many other sites.
In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, which sparked riots across the country.
The views of the war at home were split older Americans generally supported the war, younger Americans typically didn’t. This was called the Generation Gap
Nixon ran on “Peace with Honor”
Henry Kissinger he tried to work with the Soviets and China to stop supplying the North
Protests against war continued 4 protesters were shot by the National Guard at Kent State after the Ohio Governor called for martial law