Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
13 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Truman as President
What he did in suceding Roosvevelt; His Civil Rights Stand; What He Did Military |
Fair deal enhance the new deal; supported civil rights; desegregated the military
|
|
|
U. S. Post war years
|
Tension, diversity, and unsettling social changes
|
|
|
Tone of 50's religious revival
|
Christian beliefs became popular as preachers moved away from fire and brimestone message--embracing upbeat and soothing--ignoring social concerns and political unrest.
|
|
|
Eisenhower's "domestic conservatism"
|
conservative w/money and liberal to humans--help them w/o spending money
|
|
|
Southern Manifesto
|
pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts."
|
|
|
What Gulf of Tonkin Resoulution allowed
|
allowed Johnson the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia
|
|
|
America Goals in Vietnam
|
To keep South Vietnam from being overtaken by Communist North Vietnam
|
|
|
Accomplishments of woman's movement in1970's
|
1) Vietnamization
(2) The "Politics of Polarization" (3) The "Madman" scenario (4) Triangular Diplomacy Finally, Nixon pursued a "geopolitical" approach to the war -- an easing of Cold War tensions and expanding trade relations. |
|
|
The first application of the Truman Doctrine
|
Greece and Turkey Bill that contained the insuregence of communism
|
|
|
Marshall Plan
|
a call for massive aid to rescue western Europe from disaster and possible Communist subversion
|
|
|
U S Recognition of Isreal 1948
|
President Truman order immediate recognitionof the new nation; being the first nation to do so
|
|
|
Why Truman fired MacArthur
|
MacArthur underminded the President's authority in Korea
|
|
|
Reults of the Baby Boom
|
Population grew by 40,millionn (30%); home owners increased by50%; then post war construction
|
