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| What 3 things did Truman's Fair Deal do |
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- Increase minimum wage (basically doubled)
- increased spending on education and agriculture
- enact a national health insurance program
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| What two things did the GI Bill do |
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- provides money for veterans to go back to school
- lowered cost on interests for homes
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| how often is the GI Bill renewed |
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| every 10 years and it is still around today |
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| in 1957, there was a baby boom where 1 baby was born every 7 seconds, but it was stopped by what |
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| a peditrician who was famous for the borth of the Anderson QUintuplets |
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| the nerollment number in schools to increase |
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| affordable houses outside the city |
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| who was producing 150 suburbans houses a wekk |
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| By 1960 how much of the population was in the suburbs |
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| What influenced the increase in suburban life |
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television- it created the idea of what America is supposed to look like
-it idolized suburban living |
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| what was introduced on 1950 |
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| the Diner's card, basically the first credit card |
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| from 1945 to 1960 car registration went from 25 million to 60 million because |
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| most families went from single-car family to a double-car family |
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| TV had a mass audience because tv |
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| celebrated traditional American Values |
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- only had limited channels so everyone watched the smae thing
- the Tv would go off at a certain time and turn back on at a certain time
- had lots of Wester, suburban life shows
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| Why was the interstate created |
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there was worry about a nuclear strike so the interstate provided
- improved motility for motorists which led to the expansion of suburban areas
- improved military and troops to move quickly and meant people could evacuate faster in the event of war
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- a more homogenous nation
- led to fast food restaurants, motels, and drive in movies
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| the car also allowed travel so |
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people would move from the cold north to the south and southeast
- also people could go visit Disneyland
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| in the 1950 the word teenager was introduced. teenagers were important beacuse |
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| along with the rise of television the rise of.... |
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| Juvenile Delinquency was shown on TV |
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| the behavioral rules of the 1950's that led to some defiance |
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- obey authority
- control your emotions
- Don't make waves- fit in with the group
- Dont even think about Sex
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| Religion also grew during the 1950s because |
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the influence of the TV
-grew by 50 million in 20 years |
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| Billy Graham basically said |
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if you are a Christian you basically hate communism
- warned against the evils of communism
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| the way to fit in to main-stream America at this time was to be |
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anti-communist
- It is Un-American to be unreligious
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the 1950s had well defined gender roles:
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- the ideal married women- cooked and cared for her family, joined the local PTA, she entertained guests at her suburban house
- the ideal man- was the provider, protector, and the boss of the house
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| there was a changing in sexual behavior in the 1950s by |
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| premarital sex was becoming common |
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| There was also a progress in science in the 1950s by |
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- first IBM
- hydrogen bomb test (1000x powerful than atomic bomb)
- DNA discovered
- Salk vaccine for Polio
- Nasa was created
- Press conference for the first 7 American Astronauts
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| the two candidates in the election of 1960 |
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- John F. Kennedy- democrat
- Richard Nixon- Republican
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| How did technology impact the presidential election in 1960s |
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| the 1st televised debate- let more people see it |
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| Who won the election of 1960, what were the results |
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| Kennedy was with 303 (56%) of electoral votes and 49.7% popular votes |
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| The name of Kennedy's collection of domestic programs were called collectively the |
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| The Five major components of Kennedy's domestic program |
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- Federal funding for education
- Medical care for the elderly
- Government intervention to halt the recession with tax cuts
- end to racial discrimination
- Alliance for peace and peace corps to help 3rd world countries
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| Why did the USA not like Cuba |
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| it was communist and their leader tricked us |
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| Who was the leader of Cuba |
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| What happened at the Bay of Pigs in early 1961 |
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- just as President Kennedy took office in 1960, he authorized a planned invasion of Cuba by CIA- backed Cuban exiles who hand made their home in America-operation mongoose
- 200 Cubans killed and 1,000 were captured
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| who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Kennedy administration |
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| What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall |
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| Divided east and west Berilin; it was put up for the US to not invade |
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| What did president Kennedy mean when he said "Ich bin ein Berliner" |
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| addressing the people of east Berlin saying he is fighting |
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| What year did the Berlin Wall come down and Germany became one country again |
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| What did U2 spy planes discover while flying over Cuba and why did this concern the USA |
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| That Soviet Union was building nuclear instillation being built. it was the 1st time nuclear weapons could actually reach the USA |
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| What ultimatum did president Kennedy give the Soviet Union |
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| take down the missile silos or we would go in and take them down |
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| What plan did Kennedy put into place |
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| What was the outcome of the crisis |
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Once the Soviet Union's got to the blockade they turned around and went back to the soviet Union
-USA Won |
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| What did the Cuban Missile crisis make both Kennedy and Khrushchev realize |
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| no one can win a nuclear war |
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| What happened to president Kennedy in November of 1963 |
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| he was shot and assassinated |
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| Who became the new president |
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| Kennedys vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson |
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- expanded the programs of FDR's New Deal
- His Great Society programs that created the modern American Welfare State
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- was a small movement
- a social and political movement mid to late 60s
- was the culture of the baby Boomers
- rejected values of parents, authorities, 1950s conformists America
- valued individuality , nonconformity which was shown through music
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- Bouffant Hair
- go-go boots
- peasant skirts
- mini skirts
- tie Dye
- Blue Jeans
- "twiggy" was famous-being skinny
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- the Beatles
- the Who
- Rolling Stones
- many groups from England became very popular
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- LSD and Marijuana
- Magic mushrooms
- Jimi Hendrix, the Door, Janis Joplin all died of Drug Overdoses
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- Latino Civil Rights Activists
- Started the National Farm Workers Association
- He wanted to boost wages and improve working conditions
- he called for a nation wide boycott of grapes
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| To Secure these Rights reports was written by |
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| The major point of the To Secure These Rights Report |
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| America could not be an example of freedom if the rights of all were not protected |
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| To Secure these Rights report called for |
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- the end of dejure segregation- segregation by law
- lynching would become a federal hate crime
- and ending poll taxes with the passage of the 24th amendment
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| Truman signed the Executive order 9981 which |
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| intergrated the armed forces |
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| Executive Order 9981 made Truman lose a lot of support from the |
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| The democratic party split and southern democrats became known as |
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| Most predicted Truman would lose the election of 1948 but before he won he said, |
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| "if I lose it will be for a good cause" |
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott started over the arrest of who and why was she arrested |
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- Rosa Parks
- She refused to move seats to the back of the bus
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted how many days? And it made who a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement |
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- 381 Days
- Martin Luther King Jr
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| The Bus Company went ____ and the African American Community realized the held power by ____ |
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- Bankrupt
- boycotting- had economical power
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| Brown vs Board of Education started in |
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| Why did Linda Browns Family sue the BOE |
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| Linda Brown had to walk several blocks to a black school when a whote school was close by |
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| What was the major argument made by the Brown lawyers |
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| said the segregated schools sent the message that black children were inferior |
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| The chief Justice who heard the BOE vs Brown case was |
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| Earl Warren- led in pushing for Civil Rights |
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| How did the Court respond to Brown vs BOE |
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| unanimously- separate educational facilities are basically unequal |
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| Who were the Little Rock nine |
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| 9 African American students- 1st students to integrate Little Rock High School in Arkansas |
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| How did Eisenhower protect the Little Rock 9 |
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| sent in troops to protect them |
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| Governor Faubus Did what to protest desegregation |
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| he closed the school for 1 year |
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- was the 1st African American Student at the University of Mississippi
- troops were sent to protect him
- graduated in August of 1963
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| The first president of Southern Chrisitan leadership Conference? What was their goal? |
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
- to end segregation in the U.S. through the church- made it a peaceful protest
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| What were sit-ins and why were they important |
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- A protest during which those involved refused to move
- brought much attention to the movement
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| Students who rode buses in support of the ruling to bring attnention to the Civil rights Movement |
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- believed that the best way to achieve Civil Rights was through Non-violence and Civil Disobedience
- Based on the ideas of Thoreau and Gandhi
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| Why did MLK refuse to accept bail in Birmingham |
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- He said that him staying in jail would help the cause
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| While MLK was in jail he wrote |
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| "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" |
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| Two famous quotes from "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" |
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- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
- We must live together as brother or perish together as fools
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| The March on Washinton purpose |
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| a demand for jobs and Civil Rights |
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| March on Washington is where MLk gave his famous speech |
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| was responsible for outlawing segregation across the country and discrimination based on race, sex, and religion |
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| Voting Rights of Act of 1965 |
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| banned discrimination against voters at the local, state, and federal levels of government and banned the use of the literacy test to qualify voters |
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