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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What economic problems did the US face in the post-WW II era and what did political leaders do to try and address those issues? | ? |
| What social trends increased in the post-WW II era? | ? |
| Truman Doctrine | In 1947, President Truman asked Congress to appropriate money for aid to the Greek and Turkish governments then under threat by communists rebels. Arguing for the appropriations, Truman asserted his doctrine that the U.S. was committed to support free people resisting subjugation by communist attack or rebellion. The Truman Doctrine implemented the containment doctrine |
| Berlin Airlift | ? |
| Marshall Plan | In 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a massive economic aid program to rebuild the war-torn economies of European nations. The plan was motivated both by humanitarian concern for the conditions of those nations' economies and by fear that their economic dislocation would promote the spread of communism in Europe, particularly Western Europe; also known as the European Recovery Program |
| Why did the French withdraw from Indochina? | ? |
| Korean War | ? |
| McCarthyism | In the early 1950s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy conducted a witch-hunt of government employees that he charged with being communists or communist sympathizers. His unscrupulous tactics have been labeled "McCarthyism"--smearing someone's reputation by telling a "big lie" about them |
| Brown v. Topeka Board of Education | In 1954, the Supreme Court reversed the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision that established the "separate but equal" doctrine. The "Brown" decision found segregation in schools inherently unequal and in violation of the Constitution. The decision led to a long and difficult effort to integrate the nation's public schools |
| Bay of Pigs | In April 1961, an American-backed effort by 1500 anti-Castro Cuban exiles to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and force the overthrow of Fidel Castro's government was a dismal failure. It was an embarrassment to the United States and to Kennedy personally, although the invasion had originally been planned while Eisenhower was president |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | In 1962, the United States and Soviet Union came close to nuclear war when the United States insisted that the Soviets remove their missiles from Cuba. The Soviets eventually did so, nuclear war was averted, and the crisis passed. |
| Civil Rights: boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides | ? |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | ? |
| Johnson's social programs | ? |
| All had to do w/ Vietnam: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford match president w/ policy/problem/issue. | ? |
| Tet | in February 1968, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong (communist guerrillas) in South Vietnam launched a major offensive, hoping to provoke widespread rebellion in the country. The effort failed, but the psychological impact on South Vietnam and the United States made it a great victory for the Vietcong and North Vietnam. The United States thereafter reversed its policy of escalation and began to Vietnamize the war. |
| Détente | "Détente" is a French term meaning the relaxation of tensions. The word was used to identify U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Chinese relations in the 1970s, as the superpowers pursued friendlier relations with each other. |
| Interstate Highway Act | In 1956, Congress began funding a limited-access interstate highway system that has enormously increased long-distance travel in America and shifted population away from the central city to the suburbs. |
| Vast wasteland | In the 1960s, FCC commissioner Newton Minow labeled American television a "vast wasteland" devoted to uninspired programming and crass commercials. |
| What social and/or political trends showed a decrease during the period between WW II and 1965? | ? |
| What technological trends occurred in the post-war era? | ? |
| Kerner Commission | Late in the 1960s, a special presidential commission headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner concluded that the black ghetto riots of the previous three years were the consequence of white racism. |
| Cesar Chavez | ? |
| National Defense Education Act | ? |
| What was the American fall out from the Yom Kipper War? | ? |
| What economic problems plagued President Ford? | ? |
| What was the Carter presidency known for having? | ? |
| What were the causes of the economic problems associated with the 1970s? | ? |
| Equal Rights Amendment | In 1967, the National Organization for Women (NOW) advocated an equal rights amendment (ERA) to the Constitution that would outlaw discrimination on the basis of sex. Congress proposed the amendment in 1972, but it was never ratified. |
| Iranian Hostage Crisis | The Iran-Contra affair involved high officials in the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran (in return for the release of Western hostages in the Middle East) and illegally using the proceeds to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The transaction violated the Boland Amendment's ban on U.S. military aid to the Contras. |
| Notable/historic changes on the Supreme Court | ? |
| Economic/social changes during the 1980s | ? |
| What were the effects of Regan's taxation and spending policies? | ? |
| What were the effects of the crackdown on crime? | ? |
| What were the notable issues/problems with the administration of Bush Sr.? | ? |
| Persian Gulf War | ? |
| Financial crime of the twentieth century | ? |
| Contract with America | ? |
| Impeachment of President Clinton | ? |
| Election of 2000: match the candidates to their issues | ? |
| Election of 2000: disputed ballots/recount in Florida | ? |
| Between 1988 and 2000, in what countries were Americans killed by terrorists? | ? |
| What repercussions are there from the attacks on September 11, 2001? | ? |
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