Domestic Policy (Truman-Bush)
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| show | Expanded the New Deal and replaced Roosevelt's cabinet with his own more conservative cabinet.
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| show | He added twenty-one points on 9/6/1945, which included expanding unemployment insurance and minimum wage, making the Fair Employment Practices Committee permanent, improving low income housing, developing national river valleys and a public works program.
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| show | The United States demobilized and moved on to more congenial pursuits.
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| show | Truman supported Social Security benefits, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, and the American public fostered consumerism.
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| What was the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944? | show 🗑
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| What was the economic problem President Harry Truman faced? | show 🗑
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| How did President Harry Truman respond to the strikes? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of the United Automobile Workers' Strike in 1946? | show 🗑
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| What was the Employment Act of 1946? | show 🗑
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| show | The three-member group, which resulted from the Employment Act of 1946, that appraised the economy and advised the president.
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| show | The resolution to the debate over government or civilian control of atomic energy, which took the form of a civilian commission that Congress appointed in 1946.
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| show | The legislation that banned the closed shop, unfair union practices and strikes, while permitting a union shop unless the state law said otherwise, union politics unless they were Communist, employers to act against unions.
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| show | Truman vetoed the Act, but it was passed regardless.
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| What was Operation Dixie? | show 🗑
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| show | Truman and Congress disagreed over labor and tax reduction, but they agreed on government reorganization and foreign policy.
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| show | Th legislation that created the National Military Establishment, the National Security Council, and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as, made the Joint Chiefs of Staff permanent.
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| How did World War Two influence race relations in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | The United States needed to appear more moral than the Soviet Union.
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| show | The group established by Truman to investigate violence against blacks and recommend preventative actions, like the renewal of the Fair Employment Practices Committee, creation of a permanent committee, and denial of aid to states that segregated schools.
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| show | Truman banned racial discrimination in the hiring of federal employees on 7/28/1948.
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| Who was Jackie Robinson? | show 🗑
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| show | The Southern Democrats resented Truman's civil rights policies, while others had broken into the Progressive Citizens of America that supported Henry Wallace and the Americans for Democratic Action that supported Truman's aggressive anti-Communism stance.
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| What did President Harry Truman promise in his State of the Union address in 1948? | show 🗑
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| show | The New York governor that ran against Truman on a New Deal, bipartisan foreign policy, and higher efficiency platform.
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| show | The South Carolina governor that ran against Truman on a States Rights platform for the Dixiecrat party.
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| show | The domestic policy Truman proposed during his second term, which raised minimum wage, expanded Social Security, extended rent controls, increased farm subsidies, and implemented a public housing program.
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| What did President Harry Truman do to combat potential subversives in the government? | show 🗑
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| show | When Whittaker Chambers told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss had given him secret documents ten years previous, a trial ensued, which resulted in Hiss being convicted of perjury, although Truman believed him.
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| What was the Smith Act? | show 🗑
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| show | A senator from Wisconsin, who accused many people of being Communists.
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| What was the McCarran Internal Security Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the defining characteristic of the United States after World War Two? | show 🗑
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| What was the impact of the GI Bill of Rights? | show 🗑
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| What differentiated the United States before World War Two from the United States afterwards? | show 🗑
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| show | The term coined in the 1970s to denote the urban population growth, which occurred in the South, Southwest, and the West.
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| show | The inventor of air conditioning, which became popular in the 1950s.
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| Who was William Levitt? | show 🗑
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| show | The rapid movement of white Americans out of the cities to the suburbs, while African-Americans moved in.
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| show | The massive movement of African-Americans from the South to the northern cities following WWII; however, they continued to face racism and discrimination.
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| What was the role of women during the post-WWII era? | show 🗑
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| What did President Dwight Eisenhower do in response to the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| What was the social impact of the religious revival in the 1950s? | show 🗑
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| What was Neo-Orthodoxy? | show 🗑
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| Who was John Kenneth Galbraith? | show 🗑
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| show | The poet that criticized the conformity of the United States in 1960.
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| show | The 1950 author who differentiated between inner-directed people that follow core values given to them by their parents and other-directed people that adopted a sycophantic lifestyle, which made them less successful.
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| Who was Dr. Benjamin Spock? | show 🗑
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| show | The sociologist who attacked the attributes and influence of modern corporate life in 1951.
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| What were the themes in art and literature during the post-World War Two era? | show 🗑
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| What were the Beats? | show 🗑
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| show | The college students during the post-WWII era that were content to party before becoming corporate conformists; however, juvenile delinquency soared.
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| Who was Elvis Presley? | show 🗑
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| show | The Republican, General, President of NATO, who won the Election of 1952.
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| show | The Constitutional amendment that forbade a president from serving more than two terms, but did not apply to Truman, though he resigned.
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| show | Eisenhower's domestic policy that employed conservatism for economics, such as tax reduction for the wealthy and liberalism for social issues, such as the New Deal.
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| What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation? | show 🗑
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| What was the St. Lawrence Seaway? | show 🗑
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| show | The legislation that authorized the government to build 42500 miles of highway for commerce, defense, and private convenience.
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| show | Eisenhower disliked McCarthy, but he stiffened the anti-Communist security and allowed the courts to electrocute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for transmitting atomic secrets to the Russians.
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| show | The Supreme Court under liberal Chief Justice Earl Warren of California from 1953-69, which advocated for social and political change, while supporting individual rights for security programs and loyalty requirements.
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| show | The Court made sure it applied to only conspirators with those advocating for revolutionary action, which undermined the Act.
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| show | Eisenhower desegregated public services, navy yards, and veterans' hospitals in the Capitol, but he believed the judicial branch would have to lead the movement.
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| show | The African-American attorney that advocated for civil rights through the justice system.
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| show | The Supreme Court case that forced the state of Texas to make the all-black law school equal to the all-white law school in 1950.
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| show | The Supreme Court case that desegregated schools in 1954.
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| show | The upper and middle class versions of the Ku Klux Klan that used economic coercion to "discipline" African-Americans.
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| show | The Congressional statement that denounced Brown v. Board of Education an abuse of judicial power in 1956.
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| show | The Virginia senator who advocated for "Massive Resistance" to desegregation.
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| show | The African-American seamstress who was arrested for civil disobedience on the Montgomery bus on 12/1/1955.
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| Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? | show 🗑
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| What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference? | show 🗑
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| What was the Civil Rights Act of 1957? | show 🗑
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| show | The legislation that enabled federal court referees to register African-Americans to vote, if there was a pattern of discrimination in the area.
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| show | There was no increase in voter turnout because the Acts required vigorous presidential enforcement.
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| What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957? | show 🗑
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| What was the relationship between religion and the campaign of President John F. Kennedy? | show 🗑
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| What were the most important factors of the Election of 1960? | show 🗑
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| What was the New Frontier Domestic Campaign? | show 🗑
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| What did Congress prevent President John F. Kennedy from accomplishing? | show 🗑
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| show | The program JFK created to assist Latin America.
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| show | The program JFK created in 1961 to supply volunteers who would provide educational and technical services abroad.
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| show | The legislation JFK passed that led to tariff cuts of about 35 percent on goods traded between the United States and the European Economic Community, otherwise known as the Common Market.
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| show | The legislation JFK passed that gave $5 billion for urban renewal over four years.
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| show | The legislation JFK passed that provided nearly $400 million in loans and grants to "distressed" areas.
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| What was Gideon v. Wainwright? | show 🗑
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| What was Escobedo v. Illinois? | show 🗑
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| What was Miranda v. Arizona? | show 🗑
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| What was "militant nonviolence"? | show 🗑
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| show | The student counterpart to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established in 1960.
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| Who was James Meredith? | show 🗑
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| What was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom? | show 🗑
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| show | The individual who shot JFK on 11/22/1963 and was shot by Jack Ruby.
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| show | Johnson wanted to be the ultimate American utilitarian.
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| What was the Revenue Act of 1964? | show 🗑
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| show | The legislation that Johnson passed to prohibit racial segregation in public facilities and discrimination in the hiring or voting processes.
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| show | Johnson's passed an economic opportunity bill with a Jobs Corps for inner-city youths, Head Start for preschoolers, work-study, grants for farmers, loans to for hiring the disabled, Volunteers in Service to America, and the Community Action Program.
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| show | The United States without poverty and racial injustice.
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| show | An author who advocated for conservatism and wanted to abolish the income tax, sale of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Social Security in 1960.
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| show | The group that had originally advocated against a comprehensive medical insurance program, but began to support it and allowed it to be made into law in the form of Medicare with the attachment of Medicaid to pay the states for Medicare in on 7/30/1965.
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| show | The legislation in 1966 that Johnson passed that gave $1 billion for programs in remote, impoverished mountain districts.
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| What was the Housing and Urban Development Act? | show 🗑
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| show | The first African-American cabinet member and the head of the Department for Housing and Urban Development.
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| What was the Immigration and Nationality Services Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Highway and Traffic Safety Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Higher Education Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the major criticism of the War on Poverty? | show 🗑
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| show | The 1965 legislation that Johnson passed that allowed the attorney general to dispatch federal examiners to register voters, as well as suspended fraudulent devices that prevented African-Americans from voting.
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| Who was Stokely Carmichael? | show 🗑
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| show | The successor of Carmichael, who advocated for the killing of whites.
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| What was the Black Panther Party? | show 🗑
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| What were the positive impacts of the Black Power Movement? | show 🗑
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| Who was James Earl Ray? | show 🗑
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| Who was Sirhan Sirhan? | show 🗑
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| Who was George Wallace? | show 🗑
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| Who was Richard Nixon? | show 🗑
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| show | The group formed in 1960 by Al Haber and Tom Hayden from the University of Michigan, who drafted the Port Huron Statement that included complaints regarding the lack of individual freedom and the increased conformity and institutionalization.
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| show | The grassroots democracy movement of the 1960s, which collapsed by 1971 due to the sharp decline in support and the extreme fractioning.
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| show | The leader of the students' free speech movement in 1964.
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| show | A nihilistic group called the Youth International Party that were determined to create anarchy because it was fun during 1968.
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| Who were the Weathermen? | show 🗑
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| show | A 1960s and 70s movement that consisted of liberation from institutions, harmony, peace, love, and art, but they became dependent on government institutions due to the nature of their lifestyle.
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