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24 Cards in this Set
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Didnt know what was happening in V until later quote
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1. Gulf of Tonkin--LBJ uses alleged attack on US ships to start sending troops into V and Southeast Asia without consent from congress; Public unaware that LBJ had been planning already to escalate US involvement
2. Sec of D McNamara(61-68) often went of TV assuring US that we were winning the war, but PP (71) he states that he thought the war was unwinnable 3. Johnson's 64 election campaign said that we seek no more war and ran on an anti-war platform, but the PP said that he had planned to expand war, bombing NV and initiating the bombing of C and L 4. Nixon--promised nation that he planned to end war, but PP revealed his plans on bombing C and L |
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Political effects of VW
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1. end of draft
2. increased isolationist theory (1st war US lost) 3. Destroyed Johnson 4. New Left-- reformers who wanted liberal changes and relieving oppression 5. Nixon refused to get out of V because he didn't want to be 1st president to lose war 6. polarized the public into supporters and protestors 7. Tet offensive destroyed public notion that US was in control, support plummeted |
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Social effects of VW
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1. protests--student protests (kent state 1970 4 dead), draft, DEm conv 1968
2. youth groups-New Left and Counterculture 3. Public mistrust of Gov--PP |
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what were the progressive amendments?
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16th-federal income tax
17th-direct election of senators by pop vote 18th- prohibition 19th- women's suffrage |
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how do the prog amendments reflect prog beliefs?
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- Progressivism was all about reshaping the economy and reforming the country after the corrupt Gilded age
- believed that in order to make social changes, gov must be expanded -4 features of Prog-- REDS - Regulation of big businesses--16th -efficiency--16th and 17th -democracy--17th 19th -social justice--all |
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postwar goals of US
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For the first time, wants to be involved and active in world politics; major ideological shift from before
Wants self-determination for European countries -Britain content to let US dictate policy |
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postwar goals of SU
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Stalin basically carried the war on his back and felt entitled to
1. dominate Europe, 2. gain Security for himself, his regime, his country, and lastly his Communist ideology 3. to Maintain Russia’s historical borders and states gained in 1939 4. To prevent Germany from ever going to war again with the East -----soviet union causalities were 90x those of other allies, and so he felt entitled |
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7. Discuss how the differences between the postwar goals of the US and the USSR led to the Cold War
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-root of the problem--military allies can't resolve their differences
-security dilemma w/ Russia - when a country wants to increase their security, but reduces the security of other countries in the process - this will spiral out of control |
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Events of 1919
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o The first red scare (fear of communism after success of Bolshevik revolution)
o Mayday Riots--fear of socialism o Shutdown of federal government-- people wanted to focus on domestic problems + Wilson’s stroke o Inflation o Race riots |
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1920s defensive mood
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- 1919 and WWI (lost a lot of men, caused to develop nativism) left people fatigued of idealism, foreign affairs, and great causes and made them want to shut the door to outsiders
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In what ways did the Vietnam War change the nature of the relationship between the American people and the US government?
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SAME AS FIRST QUESTION
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using Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends.
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using the power of a strong, central government to achieve democratic ends or liberty for people to do what they want
believed that in a society that was switching from agrarian to industrial, the gov had to actively promote and protect the welfare of citizens |
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• Hamiltonian-
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believed in the strong, central government of Hamilton’s vision but not the institutional checks on democracy.
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• Jeffersonian
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- believed in the democratic rights of people, wanted to protect them, but did not believe Jefferson’s idea of a small government would be able to do this
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Richard Nixon defends statement that landslide victories do not ensure political effectiveness
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shift from liberalism to conservatism.
many groups and youth movements were challenging authority and putting pressures on gov poor decisions on Vietnam Nixon campaigned to middle America and the South and pledged to slow federal enforcement of Civil Rights laws. Unfortunately had a Democratic House and Senate and could override He tried to reverse “welfare-state” policies was unsuccessful. Bad economy Unemployment was up and so was inflation Watergate scandal |
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LBJ attacks the statement that landslide victories do not ensure political effectiveness
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-benefit of strong democratic house
-success in Great society (435) -civil rights act of 1964 -revised immigration act -voting rights act of 1965 |
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1st red scare
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- followed the success of a Communist revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, in Russia in 1917.
- feeling that an American Communist revolution was inevitable. -Newspapers sped up this feeling -several labor strikes in 1916 and 1917 that were interpreted as threats to society -Exploited by Attorney General Palmer to arrest hundreds of suspected Communists and businesses affiliated with Communism + Hollywood 10 1919-1920 |
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2nd red scare
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1947-1957
- After WWII and during the beginning of the cold war -(George Kennan) said that propaganda was needed to inform the public about the realities of Communism and the Soviet Union o New events like the trial of the Rosenbergs, the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the Soviet Union’s nuclear power, had a great influence on the American people. -Many people began to think that national security was at great risk. o It became known that Soviet spies had penetrated American security before. o Chinese Civil War was won by the Communists o McCarthyism + Joseph McCarthy exploited the American public’s fear of communism to gain reelection and to start a witch hunt for communists |
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why was Reagan so popular?
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-personality (actor, not afraid to address public or make calls to legislatures, good at reading people)
-huge patriot and optimist -Reganomics--cut taxes and domestic federal spending, increase defense spending--create more gov rev and balance budget -anti-communist, abortion, STOOD FOR less gov, renewed prosperity, revived military strength and pride JC unpopular--recession, iran hostages, said A was in decline |
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pull factors of great migration
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-WW1 (immigration slows and plus draft= job openings)
-im act of 1924 reduces amount of ims as well -provides more liberty and freedom (voting and political leverage, freedom of speech) -less fear and depression -urbanization and allure of cities -reunited with lvoed ones and fmaily -word of mouth and recruiting agents |
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push factors of great migration
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-racism/ caste system/jim crowe
-agricultural depression -povery -violence/ threat of violence (klan) -1920s boll weevils -flood of 1927 -discriminatory work practices |
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1968
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• student protests
• baby boomers • Prague Springs (Republic meets Soviets) • Riots in France • Mexico City Massacre • Democratic National Convention in Chicago • Assassination of MLK • Assassination of Robert Kennedy • LBJ decides not to run • bloodiest year in Vietnam (Tet Offensive ) • Republicans nominate Richard Nixon as their candidate for the presidency and he wins • the U.S., North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese agree to begin peace talks in Paris |
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1919 events
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flu epidemic
world series scandal first red scare strikes palmer raids race riots |
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1919-- 1920s transition
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h. Wilson was detached from politics, trying to get people to pass the treaty, people felt that the gov’t was going to fall apart
i. National malaise, people don’t trust the gov’t, war wasn’t doing what it was supposed to do, huge inflation j. Lead to--->desire for a return to normalcy, turn away from radical ideas, condemned un-American lifestyles, isolation, supposed |
