Apush Crash Course Review Terms Period 8/9

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Truman and Containment

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- block soviet expansion developed by George Kennan

- Truman Doctrine: economic aid for Greec and Turkey

- Marshall Plan: promoted recovery of Europe

- NATO alliance

- berlin airlift

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NATO

Back 2

- This was a military alliance for defending all members from outside attack

- Ten European nations joined the US and Canada

Front 3

Berlin airlift

Back 3

- Soviets cut of all access by land to the German city of Berlin

- Ordered US planes to fly in supplies to the people of West Berlin

- Soviets opened up highways to Berlin in May 1949 and split up Germany into TWO

Front 4

"fall of china"

Back 4

- led by Mao Zedong

- declared peoples republic of China

- Us refused to recognize new gov

- anticommunist hysteria

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UN and NK

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- NK invaded SK in 1950

- soviet was absent from meeting...declared NK as aggressor

- fought under UN auspices unlike Vietnam

- MAcarthur wanted to issue a complete blockade and bombard bases...fired

Front 6

Korean War

Back 6

- armistace in 1953

- 38th parallel

- desegregated armed forces

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Vietnam Withdrawal

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- French withdrew

- after WWWI Frenc controlled Indochina

- HoChi Minh defeated French

- US refused to sign Geneva Accords (divided Vietnam in half communist) and replace France as main power in Indochina

Front 8

Domino Effect

Back 8

- Vietnam War

Front 9

Cold War during eisenhower

Back 9

- Sputnik-->NASA

- Egypt seized Suez Canal

- Castro ained control of Cuba

- Soviets shot down US spy plane

Front 10

Rise of Mccarthyism

Back 10

- US gov filled with communists

- public accusations w/o enough evidence

- fears from "fall" of china

- soviet bomb

- containment

- Rosenberg Case (gave info to soviets about bomb)

Front 11

Fall of Mccarthyism

Back 11

- accused US army of being communists sympathizers

- Nixon and JFK began their political careers as anti communists

Front 12

Dixiecrats

Back 12

- fought for old Southern way of life

- opposed civil rights

- nominated Thurmond against Truman

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Brown v Board

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- desegregated public schools

- overturned separate but equal denial of 14th amendment

- Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock

Front 14

MLK

Back 14

- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Leader

- Stokely Carmichael: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (more violent)

Front 15

Affluent Society

Back 15

- decade after WWII

- baby boom

- suburbanization

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Women after WWII

Back 16

- went back home

- "I Love Lucy"

-"Father Knows Best"

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Rise of Suburbia

Back 17

- after WWII

- Eisenhower issued Fed Highway Act

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Social Critics of the 1950s

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- compare w Lost generation

- John Galbraith:personal goods take aware from public projects

- criticized middle class materialism and conformity

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Rebellion during 1950s

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- Rock and Roll (inspired by black music)

- Jackson Pollack: abstract art

- movie stars: James Dean

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Election of 1960

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- JFK was first to include televised debates

- Camelot: enthusiastic, upbeat atmosphere

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The Great Society

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- fed gov to enhance social welfare

- education and jobs t overcome poverty

- ciivl rights act (outlawed discrimination)

- voting rights act (no more literacy tests)

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Betty Friedan

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- The Feminine Mystique

- president of Antional Organization for women

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The bay of pigs invasion

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- failure: pushed Castro closer to the Soviet Union

- a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro

- kennedy

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Back 24

- Kennedy

- soviet missiles in Cuba'

- Soviets withdrew missiles, US promised not to attack Castro

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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- Johnson made use of a naval incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to secure congressional authorization for US forces going into combat

- Gave the president a blank check to take “all necessary measures” to protect US interests in Vietnam

Front 26

The Tet Offensive

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- Vietcong launched surprise attack on almost every provincial capital an American base in South Vietnam

- US military counterattacked, inflicted much heavier losses on the Vietcong, and recovered the lost territory

- The destruction viewed by millions on the TV news appeared as a colossal setback for Johnson’s Vietnam policy, demoralized American public

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Election of 1968

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Republican candidate Richard Nixon appealed to a nation tired of violence and unrest. Nixon vowed he would end the Vietnam War and win peace. Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey, Johnson's vice president, seemed a continuation of the old politics. In the end, Richard Nixon won.

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George Wallace

Back 28

- 3rd party candidate...election of 1968

- school segregation and states rights

- segregationist

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The silent majority

Back 29

supported Nixon

- Hawks supported vietnam war

- favored gradual withdraw from Cambodia

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Invasion of Cambodia

Back 30

- Nixon withdrew troops from Vietnam and replaced them with S. vietnamese ones

- US invaded neutral Cambodia to clear out Vietcong

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Kent State

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- Massacre of four college students by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970, in Ohio.

- In response to Nixon's announcement that he had expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia, college campuses across the country exploded in violence.

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Paris Accords

Back 32

- promised cease fire and free elections in North Vietnam

- Henry Kissinger

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Detente

Back 33

- Nixon now recognized new gov of China in BEjing

- Visited Moscow--> strategic arms limitation talks: limited nuclear weapons each superpower could have and expanded trade

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New federalism

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- distributed federal power to state and local gov

- state and local gov could spend how they want with certain limitations

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Problmes with Carter

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- inflation

- stagflation: rising inflation and rising unemployment

- inc unemployement

- inc gov spending

- inc interest rights

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Carter Foreign Policy

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- humans rights

- Camp David Accords- pecs agreement btwn Israel and Egypt

Front 37

1980 election

Back 37

- Carter vs Reagan

- iranian hostage crisis

- weak economy, high inflation

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reaganomics

Back 38

- red fed taxes

- encourage private investment

- promote economic growth by deregulation businesses

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Clinton Presidency

Back 39

- NAFTA:established free trade zone between Canada, United States and Mexico, net gain in jobs due to opening of Mexican markets

- US became a member of the World Trade Origination