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US Hx 3rd 9 week exa
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Red Scare | hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1940's and 50's, gov't employees investigated |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War (1945-91) |
| Joseph McCarthy | charged that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. He became chair of the Senate's subcommittee on investigations. fter a televised hearing in which he was discredited and condemned by Congress, McCarthy fell out of the spotlight. |
| The cold war | rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for decades and resulted in anti-communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear disaster. |
| Truman Doctrine | American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Done by Truman, pledged to help Greece and Turkey who were being threatened by communism |
| Marshall plan | American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $12 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. |
| Korean war causes | the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. |
| Korean war consequences | heightened fear of domino theory, severe casualties of Koreans and American Soldiers, ton of money spent on the war itself. Did prove that a "limited war" was possible and US/USSR could fight without going to direct war against each other |
| Cold war Truman | created the Truman doctrine, that proved the US would combat communism however we needed to. Economic/military/ aid |
| Cold war Eisenhower | contain the spread of communism and reduce federal deficits. In 1953, he threatened to use nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War. |
| Cold War Kennedy | policy of containment, which sought to stop the spread of Communism. President Eisenhower's New Look policy had emphasized the use of nuclear weapons to deter the threat of Soviet aggression. |
| bay of pigs invasion | failed landing operation in April 1961 on the southwestern coast of Cuba by Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution |
| GI bill | law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist U.S. military veterans. |
| Post WW2 Economic Prosperity | the post–World War2 economic expansion, known as the golden age of capitalism and the postwar economic boom or simply the long boom, was a broad period of worldwide economic expansion beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–1975 recession |
| Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg BOE | case involving busing students and integrating schools. All students had the right to be bused |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | 6th amendment right that gives anyone the right to an attorney if charged with a felony |
| Miranda v. Arizona | detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination |
| Civil rights | guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics |
| Civil rights with non violence | practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation. Example: sit ins |
| civil rights with violence | use of weapons and militant force to advocate for civil rights. Example- black panthers |
| Fannie Lou Hammer | African-American civil rights activist who led voting drives and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| Black panthers | revolutionary organization with an ideology of black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense. It advocated violence and gun use. It did however start several charitable projects in inner cities like the school lunch initiative |
| The new frontier- Kennedy | presidential platform that promoted infrastructure like new roads, social welfare programs, unemployment, and money spent on education in math and science to help with the space race |
| The Great society- Johnson | goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period. |
| domino theory | if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. |
| decline of confidence in American institutions | pentagon papers, my lai massacre, counter culture beginnings, Cambodia were events that led to Americans losing faith in America |
| Pentagon papers | revealed that the United States had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by the American media. |
| My lai massacre | mass killing of helpless inhabitants of a village in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, carried out in 1968 by United States troops. 500 civilians were murdered |
| Cambodia under Nixon | Nixon declared that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines. fought the Khmer Rouge |
| Laos under Nixon | part of a covert attempt by the CIA to wrest power from the communist Pathet Lao, a group allied with North Vietnam and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War. (similar to Khmer Rouge in Cambodia) |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam |
| Watergate scandal | break-in at the DNC offices in the Watergate complex in DC, carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and cover-up forced Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment. |
| TV effect of public perception of Vietnam | media's tendency toward negative reporting helped to undermine support for the war in the United States while its uncensored coverage provided valuable information to the enemy in Vietnam. |
| counter culture of the 60s | involved large groups of people, predominantly young people and youth, who rejected many of the beliefs that were commonly held by society at large. They shared a Utopian ideal |
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