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THE USA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Coggle Diagram
THE USA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1945-53 = President Harry S. Truman
1953-61 = President Dwight D. Eisenhower
America is the richest country in the world. People buy televisions, refrigerators, cars and washing machines
1947 = America signs the Marshall Plan and the NATO Treaty
Fear of Communism = the Soviet Union is the only country which could challenge America's power
Foreign policy tensions during JFK's term
Building of the Berlin Wall
Cuban missile crisis
Vietnam War
Anti-war movement
Protest songs of the Beat Generation
1961 = JFK won the elections
He was shot dead in Dallas in 1963. Lyndon B. Johnson carries on Kennedy's plans for reform
Civil rights movement
Minorities
Native Americans
African-American (M.L.King + Malcom X)
1969 = Richard Nixon won the elections and put an end to the conflict in Vietnam
Watergate scandal = illegal activities of the Republicans. Nixon is obliged to resign
Nixon was succeeded first by Gerald Ford and then by the Democrat Jimmy Carter (1977-81)
Camp David Agreements between Egypt and Israel
The diplomatic crisis with Ayatollah Khomeini contributed to his defeat against the Republican Ronald Reagan (1981-89)
'Reaganomics' = economic politics which encouraged free enterprise and brought cuts in government spendings.
During Reagan's term, powerful missiles and space research were developed
After Reagan became President George H.W.Bush (1989-93)
1991 = Gulf War