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Truman Doctrine
*March 1947
*America would support "free peoples"
*Propaganda to expand Cold War sentiment
*Supported Colonels in Greece who went on a jailing and killing spree
*George Kennan
Marshall Plan
*Provide aid to war-torn countries of Europe
*17 billion (140 billion today) was to be spent
*Part of economic program for American power
*1948
*America gave aid to countries, but they had to use it to buy goods from America to stimulate American economy
*Economically, the US controlled half of the world's trades
Joe McCarthy
*One of the most famous anti-communist politician
*started the Pink Scare where he accused government officials of being homosexual which was seen as treasonous
*Created a culture of conformity
*McCarthyism
W.E.B. DuBois
*Received better in the Black communities
*Rival to Booker T. Washington
*Believed that African-Americans should never accept white supremacy and fight vigorously for equal rights
*Helped start the NAACP
*Advocated for the Great War as a way to gain equality in America
Roy Cohn
*McCarthy's lead lawyer
*Rode along McCarthy's witchhunt for homosexuals while ironically being gay himself
*Showed the level of fear and propaganda spread around America
Lavender Scare
*1950s
*McCarthy, Simpson
*"Homosexual Hunt"
*Executive Order: 10450 - denied homosexuals from government positions
Playboy
*Politically engaged, dressed well, and aware of current events
*Counter to conformity culture that the "Scares" have produced
*Hugh Hefner, William Gaines
*1950s-1960s
Levittown
*One of the first and well known suburbs outside of New York
*Alfred and William Levitt
*Homogenous and conformist, made ppl feel safe
*Became a sort of "White haven" as other minorities were not allowed in these societies
*Other began to copy this idea leading to suburbs outside of many cities
Ho Chi Minh
*Nationalist and Communist
*Taken Vietnam back from France
*Met with great American opposition in it's quest for the containment of communism
*Claimed to be a Chinese and Russian puppet while having little connection with either country
Domino Theory
*Theory that if a country falls to communism, then all the countries around it will also fall to communism and so on and so forth
*Frightened America and led to the Containment Theory
*1950s-1970s
Ngo Dinh Diem
*US backed leader of Southern Vietnam
*Ran Vietnam like he owned it
*Put his family in high government positions
*Military meant to protect the first family rather than fight communists
*Acted as a dictator rather than a democratic leader
*Largely unliked vs Ho Chi Minh
Emmett Till
*August 1955
*14 year old black boy from Chicago visiting in Money, Mississippi
*Allegedly said something taboo to a white woman and later was kidnapped tortured and murdered
*Disfigured beyond recognition
*Opened up American eyes to the evils happening in the South
SNCC
*Compared to abolitionists
*Took the reality of segregation head on
*Coordinated 50,000 blacks to participate in sit-ins
*The strategy was to provoke action from whites and show the world the atrocities committed.
Freedom Rides
*CORE
*Challenged segregated interstate laws
*Couldn't be legally stopped, but government officials in southern states would ignore the mobbing and torching of these buses and activists inside
*1961, the ICC banned segregation on interstate highways
Bull Connor
*Birmingham Sheriff, stereotypical redneck lawman
*sent attack dogs and fire hoses to disperse marchers
*barred Sixteenth Baptist Church with 1000 black children inside
*They escaped and joined the protest
*Ordered the attack on the children which was televised
*Shocked Americans seeing officers attack children
*Eventually the Birmingham Blacks got their rights after much aggression from the whites
Containment Theory
*Theory that America had to "contain" communism and stop it from spreading
*Right after WWII
*Assumed to give America the power to intervene anywhere communism was a threat
SDS
*Students for Democratic Society
*"Looked uncomfortably to the future" while being bred in the middle class
*Advocated participatory democracy which required voters to vote often on who would be and power but also what they would enact
*Attacked the power elite
*Tried to empower the poor people
*around 1965 focused on ending Vietnam War
Betty Friedan
*Feminine Mystique
*Founder of National Organization of Women (NOW)
*60s-70s
*Godmother of Women
"The Evil Empire"
*Reagan's term for the Soviet Union
*Propaganda tactic
Yom Kippur/Ramadan War
*Joint attack of Egypt and Syria on Israel to regain land taken in 1967
*US backed Israel with huge military aid
*fizzled out and led to Camp David Accords
Mossadegh
*Won fair election in his country
*on America's enemy list
*Challenged foreign oil companies
*Also opposed communism
*Intended to nationalize oil which America and Britain wanted to remove him for
*CIA planned to stage a coup
*1953 he was overthrown
*Shah was in power again, repressing his people
Cesar Chavez
*Chicano leader for labor reforms
*mid 1960s
*Advocated for strikes and boycotts against big farm owners
*later in the 60s they settled
Reaganomics
*Dramatically cut taxes and increase military spending to balance the budget
*George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics
*in the 1980s, top 40% of Americans saw a wealth rise, the other 60% saw no rise, even decreases in wealth
*Rich got richer, poor got poorer
Women's Liberation Movement
*Movement for equality for women
*Roe v. Wade was a huge victory
*Includes NOW
*Gave women an opportunity to pursue an education and occupations that they couldn't have while pregnant
Vietnamization
*Vietnam 70s
*The falling back of American troops
*Nixon
*Thet Offensive
*Shifted the warfare to Southern natives so that America could withdraw and risk less lives while also hoping for the end of the war
*Tried to end war, but only expanded it to neighboring countries
Black Panthers
*Angry and Armed Blacks
*Opposed peaceful protest like King
*Had shootouts with police
*Advocated Violence
*Created backlash against Civil Rights, because they scared the general public
Suez Crisis
*Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal
*French and Britain took military action to seize the canal back
*America didnt like Nasser but did not agree with military action from the west
*This would turn the entire Arab nation against the west
*UN ended the conflict and Nasser has won
Equal Pay Act
*Presidential Commission of Status of Women appointed when John Kennedy became President
*1967
*Gave equal pay for Women and Men
*Huge step forward for the Women's Liberation Movement
Iran-Contra
*Reagan Administration selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon while taking those funds and giving them to the Contras in Nicaragua
*Violated his pledges to not negotiate with Terrorists and the embargo put in place after the 1979 hostage crisis
*Justified with his duty to bring Americans home safely
Howl
*1956
*by a gay radical Jewish poet
*It was a long chaotic political commentary on the numbing conformity in America
*This was not well received by the American government
*His books were controversial and seized at customs when they arrived in America
1967 summer of love APP, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman
war in i
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