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APUSH UNIT 8, Burger Court - Coggle Diagram

- - - - no more segregation, violated 14th amendment
      - Justice: Earl Warren
      - Against: Thurgood Marshall
      - Opposition: Little Rock
  - - - Rosa Parks
        
        Montgomery Bus Boycott
    - - found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
        
        "sit-ins"
      - March on Washington
        
        "I Have a Dream" speech
      - Results
        
        Civil Rights Act of 1967: outlawed discrimination
        
        24th Amendment : abolish poll tax
  - - - Stokley Carmichael
      - Malcom X
      - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
      - Black Panthers
      - Watt Riots
      - 1968: MLK assassinated in Memphis
  - - - by Cesar Chavez + Dolores Hueta
  - - - illegally seized evidence cannot be used
    - - attorneys must be provided
    - - Required police to inform individuals of Fifth Amendment "Right to remain silent"
- - - - Supplies to Greece and Turkey to prevent from becoming Soviet allies
    - - Aimed to strengthen European economies
    - - US Allies = North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
      - Soviet Allies = Warsaw Pact
  - - - Chinese Civil War
      - Communist party controlled China
      - US supported Nationalist
    - - North = Soviet sattelite state
      - Korean War = North invades South
        
        US helps out
  - - - John Foster Dulles
      - More military Spending
        
        Eisenhower--> danger of too much spending
        
        Military-industrial complex
    - - Creation --> National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    - - led by Fidel Castro
  - - - US --> Full-scale blockade
  - - - supported by Henry Kissinger
        
        Visit China
        
        Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
- - - - Babyboom
    - - Growth in tertiary sector jobs
      - Sunbelt
    - - GI Bill
  - - - Spending in education, healthcare, and other anti-poverty programs
- - - - Providing military aid to Middle East countries to prevent communism
    - - Suprise attack by Egypt and Syria against Israel
  - - - encouragement of democracy and economic planning
- - - - Expands military influence
        
        Gulf of Tonkin Resolution = never declared war but power given to US president
  - - - Enormous cost = LBJ popularity ↓
        
        re-election--> LBJ doesn't run + Robert F. Kennedy killed
        
        Riots
  - - - led to Kent State University + death of student protesters
    - - limited president's power
- - - - Food Stamp Act (1964)
      - Medicare (1965)--> 65+
      - Medicade (1965) --> poor
      - Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) = spending on education
  - - - using government to solve economic and social problems
  - - - took limits off
        
        "Fourth Wave of Immigration"
- - - - Watergate Scandal
        
        Nixon resigns
  - - - blaming the people for the country's problems
- - - - Rise of TV, advertising, credit cards, fast food
  - - - Challenged conformist attitudes of 40s and 50s
- - - - Investigated ties with government officials + Hollywood stars
    - - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
    - - by Republican senator Joseph McCarthy