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1950-1953
UN called out to other nations to support South Korea against North Korea
War ended in a truce instead of peace treaty |
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worked to minimize tensions during the Cold War and negotiated peace treaty with Russia
enforced desegregation, sent troops to LR, AR.
NASA, Depart of Health, Education, and Welfare formed during his admin |
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economic progress
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
civil rights legislation
attack poverty
support of the arts
killed in Nov 1963 |
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Russian Pres. Khrushchev placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to protect the island from being invaded by American U-2 planes. US set up naval blockade
America removed missiles in turkey and sell surplus wheat to USSR
-after that, hot line established between Moscow and Washington |
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civil rights bills
tax cuts
legislation ag. disease and poverty
support for education
support for environmental conservation
Medicare, NASA, known less positively for his handling of the Vietnam War |
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| Civil Rights Movement Figures (6) |
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Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcom X
stokey Carmichael
Adam Clayton Powell
Jesse Jackson |
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| 3 Major events in Civil Right Movement |
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1. Montgomery Bus Boycott
2. Desegregation of Little Rock
3. Birmingham Campaign |
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| 3 pieces of legislation resulting from Civil Rights Movement |
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1. Brown vs. Board of Ed: separate but equal were unconstitutional
2. Civil Rights Act of 1964: discrimination illegal
3. Voting Rights Act of 1965: ended literacy test and poll taxes against blacks in the south |
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| US came to assistance of S Vietnam under attack by the North communist Vietnam |
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| Protests against Vietnam War |
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Kent State Ohio: 4 students killed by National Guard
Armbands: Tinker v Des Moines School District
-effect: led to end of compulsory draft and in 1973 US departed Vietnam and 1975 South Vietnam surrended |
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| 4 US Cold War Policy Acts |
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1. Marshall Plan: sent aid to war torn Europe after WWII
2. Containment: containing spread of Soviet communism
3. Truman Doctrine: US give military and econ support to any country threatened by communism
4. National Security Act: created the Department of Defense, CIA, and National Security Council |
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North Atlantic Treaty Association
-agreement among the US and Western European countries that an attack on any one of these countries was an attack against the entire group |
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| agreement between USSR, E Germany, Poland, Albania, and Czechoslovakia, similar pact to NATO |
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| divided east (communist) and west (democratic) Germany also called the iron curtain |
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| USSR and US rushed to make the atomic bomb and outpace each other with weapons of mass destruction and why the cold war was cold bc they were afraid the other side would use the weapons |
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| 1980s Gorbachev head of USSR. Berlin Wall came down and USSR relinquished its power. The USSR bc independent nations and the cold war ended |
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1. penicillin
2. supersonic air travel
3. first commercial airline
4. nuclear power
5. orbital leading to Sputnik
6. first man of the moon |
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| Immigrant Policy post WWII |
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| US policy shifted to accommodate those refugees from Europe and elsewhere. Displaced persons Act: allowed 400,000 refugees to enter the country. |
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| Other Changes to Immigrant Acts (3) |
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1. 1962 Migration and Refugee Assistance Act
2. 1965 Immigration Act
3. 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act |
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Vietnam war ends
national environmental policy act pass
compulsory draft ended
abortion legalized in Roe v Wade
Watergate: end of his presidency in 72 |
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| negotiations with Russia to limit nuclear arms, inflation, energy shortages, reduce control and role of govt. |
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high unemployment
inflation
panama canal treaties
camp david accords
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Iran Hostage Crisis
Ayatollah Khomeini |
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Reganomics
Economic Recovery Act
Sandra Day O'Connor
Reduction of nuclear weapons
Iran-Contra Scandal
Deregulation of savings and loan
loss of Challenger |
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fall of berlin wall
Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noreiga tried and captured
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Gulf War
Tiananmen Square
Ruby Ridge
World Wide Web |
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Family and Medical Leave Act
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Defense of Marriage Act
Oslo Accords
Siege at Waco TX
Oklahoma City Bombing
Troops sent to Haiti, Bosnia, and Somalia |
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| 4 Acts passed to minority rights |
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Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Age Discrimination Act 1978
Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 |
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won the election and electoral vote by SC ruling
9/11
changes to airline travel
troops to Iraq and Afghanistan
oil prices and gas prices increase
meltdown of mortgage industry |
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economic bailout packages
improvements in women's rights
moves to broaden gay rights
health care reform
reinforcement of the war in Afghanistan |
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