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Pageant 37-38 Review
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End of World War II
• People feared the return of the Great Depression
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Supreme Court• Advanced civil rights because congress and the
president were staying away from the issue• Sweatt v Painter- 1950- Ruled against segregated
graduate schools• Brown v. Board- 1954- Over turned legal
segregation
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Civil Rights• African Americans spurred on by the gap
between U.S. ideals and racial practices revealed by WW II
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The United Nations• Sent troops to Korea- initially to defend South
Korea from North Korean aggression• Failed to stem the manufacturing of atomic
weapons• Instrumental in the formation of Israel
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Cold War Origins
• Fundamental disagreements between the U.S. and Soviets over arrangements in postwar Eastern Europe
• U.S and Soviets had been largely isolated from world affairs
• U.S viewed the Soviets as expansionist, but cautious
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Marshall Plan
• Economic aid to Europe after WW II
• Offered to the Soviets and Eastern bloc nations
• Thwarted Communist parties in Italy and France
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Berlin Blockade
• U.S. and others organized an airlift to supply West Berlin
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American Atomic Monopoly
• Ended in 1949 with the Soviet detonation of an A-bomb
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Chinese Civil War
• Mao Zedong gained the support of the Chinese people
• Lead to increased fears of Communist expansion
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Douglas Mac Arthur
• Instrumental in developing post war Japan• First UN commander in Korean War- fired by
Truman You are Fired!!
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The Rosenbergs
• Executed in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the Soviets
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Alger Hiss
• Found guilty of perjury• Helped establish Nixon’s reputation
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HUAC
• House Un American Activities Committee • Began investigating Communist influences in
the New Deal in the late 1930s
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Strom Thurmond• Ran in 1948 as a Dixiecrat• Opposed to Truman’s stance in favor of civil
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Henry A. Wallace
• Ran for President in 1948 as the New Progressive candidate
• Wanted to return to the New Deal• Opposed Cold War policies of
Truman• Too liberal for voters• Formerly FDR’s VP from 1941-45
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Truman’s Fair Deal• Full employment• Increased housing availability• Aid for Farmers• Higher minimum wage• New TVAs• Extension of Social Security
• Blocked by Republicans and Southern Democrats
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McCarran Act
• Gave the President wide ranging powers against internal threats
• Vetoed by Truman, but overridden
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Sputnik• Launched in October 1957• Resulted in increased emphasis on science and
language education in the U.S.• The U.S. launched Juno within a couple of
months
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Eisenhower
• Pledged to go to Korea during the 1952 Presidential campaign
• Was committed to social harmony• Not inclined toward promoting integration
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Checker’s Speech
• Nixon’s televised appeal to the American people
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Eisenhower Foreign Policy
• Massive Retaliation- Soviet aggression will be met with a nuclear response
• Open Skies- Allowed for U.S. and Soviet planes to fly over each other’s air space- rejected by Khrushchev
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New Look Foreign Policy
• Reliance on air power and nuclear weapons• Deemphasized conventional army and navy
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Vietnam
• U.S. supported French presence after World War II
• French defeated by Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu- 1954
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Suez Crisis
• Great Britain and France attempted to regain the Suez Canal
• For the last time, the U.S. used oil to make demands
• A factor in the U.S. not aiding the Hungarian revolution
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Iran
• U.S. opposed Mossadegh and placed the pro-Western Shah in power
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1956 Revolution
• Hungarians temporarily overthrew Communist leadership
• Never received help from the U.S.
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Cuba
• U.S. supported Batista• Castro gains power in 1959
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Interstate Highway System
• Affected air quality and downtowns• Showed preference for auto transportation
over railroads
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Low Energy Costs
• Resulted in an economic boom in the U.S. from the end of WW II until the 1970s
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Sunbelt
• Prosperity due to influx of money from the federal government
• Every elected President from 1964 to 2008 was from the Sunbelt
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Sit-ins
• Began at North Carolina A&T• Led to the formation of the Student Non
violent Coordinating Committee
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Successful in keeping most African Americans of the busses
• Led to the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr
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Emmett Till
• From Chicago, visiting Mississippi • Defendants were found not guilty by an all
white jury
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Little Rock 9
• Integrated Central High School• Orval Faubus- Arkansas Governor used the
National Guard to prevent integration• Eisenhower sent in paratroopers
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Organized Labor
• Hindered by-– The Taft-Hartley Act– Increase in service sector jobs– Failure of Operation Dixie– Increase in part-time workers
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Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
• GI Bill• Helped absorb millions
of men back into the workforces
• Allowed men to go to college, easily get home or business loans
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Earl Warren
• Conservative Governor of California- became a liberal Supreme Court justice
• Nominated by Eisenhower
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Suburban Growth
• Made easier by-– Accessible home loans– Highways– Tax deductions for interest payments on mortgages– “White Flight” from racial change
Created an urban-suburban segregation of blacks and whites in major metropolitan areas
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Israel
• Recognized by Truman- risked U.S. access to Middle Eastern oil
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Joe McCarthy
• Claimed the state department was infiltrated by Communists
• Never directly challenged by Eisenhower• State Department lost specialists that may
have been valuable concerning Vietnam
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Consumerism
• People that had experienced the Great Depression and WW II now had discretionary income
• McDonalds, Disneyland, TV advertising
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1960 Election
• Televised debate may have helped Kennedy defeat Nixon