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the great depression
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The U.S. economy was a laissez fair economy in the 1920s for the most part
But the government managed it by the tariff and the Federal Reserve Created inflation to keep economy floating Depression occurs when something disrupts the process of resource owners, producers, and consumers’ ability to coordinate supply, production, and demand Banks create and destroy money (inflation and deflation) by controlling the interest rate The international gold standard was a fixed rate which was set by governments based on supply and demand The value of money and the money supply would shrink and increase as gold reserves shrank and increased, creating inflation and deflation The world depression from 1927-1929 caused deflation (money leaving the U.S.) and a general contraction in the economy |
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franklin d roosevelt
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FDR’s election was a monumental shift in the dominance of the Democratic Party
United the industrial Northeast with the South Banks failed during this time in record numbers American lost confidence in the economy and in government’s ability to do anything about it Banks failed during this time in record numbers Gold began being depleted from large banks in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia |
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bank holiday
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This was done under the auspices of the WWI Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917
He got passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act Allowed banks to re-open only after federal examination Re-opened banks could not pay out in gold The RFC received bank stocks in return for soundness approval The effect was to shift control of the economy to Washington from Wall Street This was done without the Federal Reserve expanding the money supply Manufacturing increased Unemployment dropped 28%-23% |
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FDR first hundred days
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A great deal of legislation passed during this period
Beginning with the Emergency Banking Relief Act of March 9 This was replaced with the Banking Act of 1933 Payment of interest on checking stopped Commercial and investment banking separated Banks had to become insured with the federal government Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (FSLIC) This was an old William Jennings Bryan idea Relief for mortgage debt was provided:These provided credit to stave off foreclosures Reform of utilities Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 Created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate securities exchanges The government provided unemployment relief: These programs provided work for the unemployed |
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agricultural adjustment act
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The ? sought to reform agriculture to bring relief to farmers
The program sought to establish equivalent purchasing power of farmers they had enjoyed in the 1910s Done thru:Production controls through benefit payments Non-recourse loans where loans were given based on target prices The ? did reduce production, but so did weather conditions The ? tended to help wealthy farmers rather than small ones |
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national industrial recovery administration
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Created the Public Works Administration: Relief program to create needed infrastructure
Also created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) Sought to keep wages at certain levels while reducing production through limitations Also sought to spread work to more people by placing limitations on hours of work per week It authorized firms to write codes of fair competition Trade associations would be the vehicle through which the program was administered These codes set labor standards, minimum wages, maximum hours, working conditions, rules of collective bargaining, etc The NRA undermined the influence of independent unions as company coded unions controlled workers’ activities -The NRA underscored that people thought that the Depression was caused by overproduction and underconsumption The NRA and the AAA decreased productivity and the ability for businesses and individuals to profit to the point to where they could reinvest in the economy One effect of the collapse of the AAA and NRA was an increase in production and investment and a return to recovery |
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social security act of 1935
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was the basis for the expansion of the welfare state
This was a tax on employers and workers Established: Unemployment insurance Old-age insurance Also provided funds for the disabled and dependent mothers and children The welfare state broke up the influence of concentrated wealth and power over individuals It basically shifted this influence from the private sector (business and industry) to the public sector or government |
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nazism
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The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) arose during the 1920s under the leadership of Adolf Hitler
The Nazis waged a campaign of intimidation and violence against socialists and other enemies The Nazis waged a campaign of intimidation and violence against socialists and other enemies Hitler was given dictatorial powers Expelled communists from government When the President of Germany (Hindenburg) died no new presidential elections were held and Hitler became Chancellor and President Hitler ordered military to swear loyalty to him Hitler began to rearm the military in violation of the Treaty of Versailles |
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munich agreement
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The greatest appeasement came with the British and French agreement of the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia
“Peace in our time” |
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imperial japan
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look in isolation and ww2
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U.S Isolationism
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The U.S. was very reluctant to get involved in the growing crises of the 1930s
World War I was a traumatic experience The U.S. was ultimately forced to go to war against Japan and Germany in late 1941 But the memories of WW I and the Depression had forced the U.S. to become more isolationist towards the outside world as it focused on bring about domestic economic recovery |
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1935 Neutrality Act
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These acts were a rejection of traditional U.S. internationalism
Established an arms embargo It was widely believed that the arms trade is what dragged the U.S. into WW I Established travel restrictions When war broke out in Ethiopia in 1935 the ? was invoked |
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Harry Truman
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On March 12, 1947, Truman announced before a special session of congress that the policy of the U.S. must be to support free peoples resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure
Greece and Turkey was threatened by both This is known as the Truman Doctrine And this becomes the foundation of postwar foreign policy |
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National Security Act
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This act consolidated all political control of the armed forces in the Department of Defense
It created the CIA as a central clearinghouse of national intelligence It also created the National Security Council which gave expert advice to the president on matters of defense and security |
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NSC 68
National Security Council 68 |
the U.S. had to ensure that it had the military means to resist the Soviet threat
Stated that the U.S. had the obligation to preserve free institutions throughout the world and that the country must equip itself militarily to meet this goal This document set the groundwork for military rearmament in the face of the Soviet threat This rearmament came in the form of conventional weaponry But especially in the form of nuclear weapons This armament program became especially important after the Soviet Union tested their first nuclear weapon in September 1949 |
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the washington conference
harding warren= 655-56 669-70 707-12 738 761 |
To resolve technical disputes about the quality of warships, the conferees adopted a quantitative standard
President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations, the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal,[1] having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. |
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manhattan project
784 801 |
afraid that Hitler was going to be the first to make an anti-Semitic bomb. the Universities began experimenting on how to make atomic bomb before Hitler
FDR and Churchill devoted vast resources not only to be the first in getting nuclear weapons but in order to use them to shorten war |
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marshall plan
george marshall- 778 779 786 805 807 810 811-13 818-19 821 822 823 836 840 |
(officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism.
The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again |
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north atlantic treaty organization
NATO 652 816-17 |
the treaty embodied the basic principle of collective security, stipulating that an attack on any one member would be considered an attack upon all, and it set up an organization, with an integrated command headquarters, based in Paris (SHAPE) to which were assigned forces from all the signatories
This was Trumans Document and got the US, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal(greece and Turkey joined in 1952, west germany in 1955) Nato has proved one of the most durable and, perhaps, the single mot effective, keeping the peace for half a century and more |
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joseph McCarthy
834-37 846 |
made a Lincoln Day speech in West Virginia, in which he caused a sensation by waving a piece of paper around naming all the men in the state department who were active members of the communist party and members of a spy ring .
there was already a congressional attempt to remove communists, his speech began the active phase of the antiRed witch hunt. trying to find all communists in public service to be dismissed Truman told press McCarthy was the Kremlins greatest asset. truman also commissioned a study of 'hysteria and witch hunting' in american history, which concluded there was a permanent undercurrent of 'hate and intolerance' in america which periodically produced outbreaks such as McCarthyism |
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Tv and public opinion
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as the tv habit spread i made itself indispensable to all mass consumption of goods and services, those who ran the networks and the stations began to flex their cultural muscles and contemplate a society in which all standard measurements of behavior would be up for redefinition, based on ratings, would rule.
TV had a powerful impact on the way opinion was formed, not only in the country, but within itself. It was the same as TV. Kennedys greatest success during the campaign was his victory over nixon in the official tv debates. |
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John F Kennedy
845-51 855-68 |
a fierce democratic anti-communist president
theme of the Kennedy family- how to turn money into politics power His political ascent was based essentially on money and corruption. believed his presidency was a voting fraud Aiming at youth, he declared the time to be an hour of maximum danger for freedom. his generation he said had been given the told of defending it. under him, america would pay and price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to ensure the survival and the success of liberty would make theses stronger: Peace Corps, give the Green Barets more forceful activities(counter-insurgency) , campaign for winning hearts and mins of local in what were known as non-aligned countries, increase economic and military aid almost everywhere |
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cuban missile crisis
862-65 |
russian dictator Khrushchev placed missiles in cuba and lied to the US, they saw the footage in US arial surveillance.
seemed like Kennedy agreed with soviet union ambassador, that he would pull out the Jupiters from turkey and italy. second, nearly all the 42,000 soviet troops an experts in cuba began extensive training of what was to become one of the largest and most mobile armies in the world third, kennedy appears to have agreed with Krushchev to restrain any efforts by cuban exiles invade cuba said it was "the greatest defeat in american history"- the missile crisis took place at a time when the strategic nuclear equation was still strongly in americas favor |
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tet offensive
885 |
first day of tet, US units attacked without previous notification 5 out of 6 vietnams cities on the lunar New Year holiday, previously seen as a truce.
In military terms this was the worse reverse the Vietcong suffered throughout the war. but the media presented it as a decisive american defeat |
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southern christian leadership conference
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led by martin luther king jr because blacks at the slow pace of their acquisition of civil rights, especially educational and voting ones, through court process and legislative change.
Rosa parks and the bus boycott begun and inspired him more king was a nonviolent militant of a new brand of organizations which used numbers and passive resistance rather than force and played the religious card for all it was worth. |
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Containment
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Truman Doctrine:
The policy of the U.S. must be to support free peoples resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure This strategy was proposed in opposition to the alternative strategy of direct confrontation with the Soviet Union and forcing their removal from countries occupied after WW II Containment was to be conducted through a counter application of force at various geographical locations threatened by Soviet expansionism Containment was appealingbecause the U.S. exhausted by war |
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Korean War
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Stalin saw that the spread of communism in Asia under Soviet leadership would increase his influence among the Chinese communists
He prodded Soviet dominated North Korea to expand into U.S. influenced South Korea The Soviet backed North Koreans invaded South Korea with great force in June 1950 North Korean forces pushed South Korean and American forces to the southmost portion of the peninsula by September Later that month, the U.S. and U.N. forces landed at Inchon and began to push the North Koreans north By late October 1950 the allies had all but dispatched the North Koreans The Chinese then got directly involved in the war and pushed the allies back towards the 38th parallel |
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Politics of anti-communism
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Conservative reaction to the liberal nature of the New Deal began to be more vocal and influential by the end of WW II
So by the end of the war, many people associated the New Deal with social activism and communism in particular growing skepticism of the Soviet allies by the end of the war encouraged the idea that many government administrators were sympathetic to communism before WW II anticommunist legislation had been passed by the government Federal Employee Loyalty Program: The program gave government security officials authorization to screen employees of the federal government for political deviance (Crusade against communism abroad and clean out communism at home) This program created a form of political inquisition Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin announced that he had a list of 205 active communists in the State Department and would conduct an investigation |
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Federal Employee Loyalty Program
2. truman doctrine 3. communism |
The program gave government security officials authorization to screen employees of the federal government for political deviance
This program went hand in hand with the 2? Crusade against 3? abroad and clean out 3? at home |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. republican |
part of the 2? party generally promoted a pro-business, antigovernment regulation approach to government
Although he attacked the TVA for being an example of creeping socialism, he didn’t dismantle the New Deal social welfare programs Eisenhower’s style can be attributed to his military tradition he was often criticized for being a bumbling, ineffective, and incompetent president, but he was totally in control and had cultivated that image on purpose |
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The 1950s economy
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The economy grew at an incredible rate
The framework for economic expansion created by the war and postwar veterans benefits contributed to this postwar prosperity (GI Bill) The government also contributed to technological advances that contributed to economic expansion: After the war the government divested in plants and factories providing a pre-built industrial infrastructure for private businesses Computer technology exemplified the massive leaps being made in the economy Advances in automated labor saving devices increased productivity but also contributed to the decline of factory workers by 4 % Sales people, operators, bureaucrats, tellers, counselors, advertisers offered services that contributed to the quality of life as opposed to providing basic necessities, decline of labor unions With the new economy came a new managerial class This development represented the growth of large corporations (the General Motors) |
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Suburbanization
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This type of housing development boomed during this period. This development represented a great increase of families as marriages doubled
Building contractors wanted cheap land and this land was available on the outskirts of the cities What suburbanism was, was a blow against ethnic separatism The ethnic ghettos of the inner city began to be broken up by this process Suburbanization was an effect of the increasing levels of cooperation among Americans of various ethnicities Unfortunately black Americans were unable to enjoy the benefits of suburbia |
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Consumerism in 1950s
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The re-emergence of the automobile industry also represented a renewal of consumerism
New highways = +cars sold New appliances, furniture, services, goods, and recreation materials all contributed to the consumerism of the 1950s **TV A great deal of the consumerism focused on recreation sports, theme parks, pools, boats |
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The influence of TV
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The greatest consumer item of the period was the TV
bringing people from various backgrounds together in a common experience led to the homogenization of American culture and society TVs great influence is based on our ability to see things we can learn and copy in a major way |
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Jim Crow
2. lynching |
1. referred to a minstrel show character that characterized blacks as inferior to whites
The term became associated with segregation Legal segregation -Reinforced by the Plessey v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling in 1896 2.-Physical intimidation aimed at maintaining the hierarchical nature of southern society. illegal, execution = accused ppl Response: The debate over segregation within the black community generally focused on the approaches of two leading black intellectuals |
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Containment
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Truman Doctrine:
The policy of the U.S. must be to support free peoples resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure This strategy was proposed in opposition to the alternative strategy of direct confrontation with the Soviet Union and forcing their removal from countries occupied after WW II Containment was to be conducted through a counter application of force at various geographical locations threatened by Soviet expansionism Containment was appealingbecause the U.S. exhausted by war |
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Korean War
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Stalin saw that the spread of communism in Asia under Soviet leadership would increase his influence among the Chinese communists
He prodded Soviet dominated North Korea to expand into U.S. influenced South Korea The Soviet backed North Koreans invaded South Korea with great force in June 1950 North Korean forces pushed South Korean and American forces to the southmost portion of the peninsula by September Later that month, the U.S. and U.N. forces landed at Inchon and began to push the North Koreans north By late October 1950 the allies had all but dispatched the North Koreans The Chinese then got directly involved in the war and pushed the allies back towards the 38th parallel |
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Booker T. Washington
one of the leading black intellectuals |
Born into slavery in Virginia
Washington argued that blacks should accept segregation for the time being and working hard at farming and in community-based support groups would best enable them to avoid violence and terror He supported and helped found schools and colleges which educated blacks in agriculture and trained black vocational teachers |
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W.E.B. DuBois
2. NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) one of the leading black intellectuals |
Born in New England
He strongly believed that African Americans should insist upon all their Constitutional rights as American citizens he established the 2? ultimately became the principal voice advocating legal resistance to segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching in the nation |
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NAACP
national association for the advancement of color people |
this ultimately became the principal voice advocating legal resistance to segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching in the nation
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Brown v. Board of Education
2. the civil rights movement |
The Supreme Court case of ? was the catalyst of 2?
The court ruled that in public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place; that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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One area outside of education that segregation was challenged was in public transportation
The NAACP launched a campaign to end segregation in the transportation system The bus boycott was successful and served as a model of non-violent protest and confrontation against segregation |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants, and other public accommodations
It authorized the Attorney General to bring lawsuits to desegregate schools Federal and private employers were required to eliminate discrimination The Equal Opportunity Commission banned job discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or sex |
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Liberal consensus
2. JFK |
The 1? was:
Confidence in capitalism Belief in reform Disapproval of class conflict Social unity in the face of fighting communism at home and abroad The 1? was conservative in the sense that it saw American society as an ideal society and that it was paranoid about the communist threat when 2? became president he represented this |
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Lyndon B Johsnon
1. democrat 2.The Great Society |
he lost to JFK as a 1?
but then became VP once JFK assassinated he felt like he had to continue the Kennedy Legacy and bring the country together These programs of 2? greatly enlarged the size of government, and the direct influence of the federal government in all areas of American society Federal aid to education Federal aid to medicare An act for the support of higher education Federal rent subsidies A demonstration cities program Federal aid to urban mass transit Operation Headstart Manpower training A teacher’s corps Provisions for mental health facilities Environmental safety legislation Truth in packaging legislation Subsidies for high-speed mass transit Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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1. LBJ
2. poverty 3. War on Poverty |
1. was deeply committed to his plan to eliminate 2? from the U.S. so he started 3?
was a combination of three approaches to dealing with the problem A. The redistribution of wealth through tax reforms and government handouts to the poor B. A quantitative approach where a government guaranteed income through income transfer programs like food stamps made sure people could rise above poverty C. To use government influence to give the poor the opportunity to help themselves 2? and social activists got direct access to federal money and used it to organize rent strikes, protests against city governments, and attempts to take over school boards and other local agencies This had transformed the war against poverty into struggle over power between governments, government agencies, and anti-poverty activists |
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Vietnam War
2. liberal consensus 3. democratic |
The conflict in 1? was another 1? that contributed to the destruction of the 2?
U.S. assumed responsibility as French pulled out of Vietnam But after the assassination of Diem in early November 1963, the situation in South Vietnam rapidly deteriorated U.S made turning point with the Tet offensive (utilize the element of surprise and strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam) this war caused destruction of 3? party |
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Richard Nixon
2. republican 3. south 4. new federalism |
1? served in Navy. Elected as President in 2? party
was the first president to be elected by the 3? , which means absolutely no segregation he wanted to bridge the gap between races and end the war he called for a "4?" - A system which directed money and power away from the federal bureaucracy and toward states and municipalities created plenty of government programs economic issue became how to bring down inflation without slowing the economy and raising unemployment answer: An income policy whereby the government intervened to set and control wages A second issue was also a problem—the dollar answer: Going off the gold standard and giving up fixed exchange rates constituted a momentous step in the history of international economics. Foreign Policy with vietnam- "win the peace" with China- sympathy for china, so he tries to help, and ease relationship with Soviet Union- reduce tension by signing a anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty, an interim SALT(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty and a billion-dollar trade agreement |
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Federal fascism
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was an extremely nationalistic movement that held the value of the state over interests of individuals, corporations, and organizations
It sought to bring about social efficiency through nationalism and law and order seized power through physical intimidation of their enemies They achieved political status in the government by threatening to march on Rome and cause general chaos |
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united nations
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created the state of Israel in 1947 primarily for Jewish refugees of WW II
coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. |
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students for a democratic society
893 |
also known as the new left
mainly a white student activists the opportunity for mass demonstrations grew. first success was free speech movement, in protest at restrictions on student involvement in politics. Initially SDS chapters throughout the nation were involved in the Civil Rights Movement. DS organized a national march on Washington, D.C., in April 1965, and, from about that period, SDS grew increasingly militant, especially about issues relating to the war, such as the drafting of students. Tactics included the occupation of university and college administration buildings on campuses across the country. By 1969 the organization had split into several factions, the most notorious of which was the “Weathermen,” or “Weather Underground,” which employed terrorist tactics in its activities. |
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the "imperial Presidency"
2. nixon |
media felt that they were in some deep but intuitive sense the repository of the hour and conscience of the nation and had a quasi-constitutional duty to assert at in times of crisis, whatever the means or the consequences
the media also thought to conceive its duty to be the critical security of an over-active presidency rather than the urge for a comatose (inactive) legislature talking about the president 2? |
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Watergate
891 899-901 902 903-906 |
The "plumbers" were in engaged in a variety of activities and had to engage in a covert operation to obtain the files of Ellsberg from his psychiatrists office. the plumbers broke into democratic party headquarters, in washing tons 1? building on two occasions. 2nd time they got caught.
when they were caught nixon didn't know about it and heard about it later thinking it was a joke. it was referred to as a "caper" . no one could make a plausible reason for the burglary since it was obvious that nixon was going to win. watergate scandal broke and allowed the machinery of congressional investigation, where of course the democrats enjoyed majority control, to make a frontal assault on the 'imperial presidency' right from the start of the case, democratic liberals in both houses of congress had been calling for the presidents impeachment The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the break-in |
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Gerald Ford
868 903 905 906-908 909-910 |
was in the US navy
became president after nixon resigned was the first president who was not elected by the electoral college. gave nixon a pardon puff |
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Carter Doctrine
president jimmy carter 910-13 917 918 920-21 933-34 |
an assertion that the oil reserves of the Persian gulf were of vital interest to the us and that it would be justified in intervening with military force to prevent domination of the region from outside (soviet Russia)
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1. president Reagan
Economic recovery tax act of 1981 923 |
president 1?
reduced the highest tax rate to 50% and included across the board tax reductions of 25% there were other reductions in taxes on capital gains, estates, and gifts |
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1. Reagan
strategic defense initiative 927-28 930 |
adopted by President 1?
2? an attempt to provide an effective defense against incoming missiles and so to move away from the horrific concept of mutually assured destruction which had dominated the cold war |
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Roosevelt’s attitude toward the Supreme Court
296-317 357 |
Congress recommending reform to the judiciary and re-organization of the Supreme Court. According to the Plan suggested by Roosevelt, the President was to be authorized to appoint one extra member to the Supreme Court for every existing justice over seventy, who would not retire within six months.
Roosevelt's plan evoked much criticism and the President was condemned for attempting to break down the system of checks and balance among the three branches of the government. Most of the people felt that the basic liberties were in jeopardy. Many Democrats both in and out of Congress also supported the Republicans in criticizing President's new plan. It was alleged that the President was aspiring to create a dictatorship of the worst type. President Roosevelt was unhappy with the US Supreme Court because they ruled six of eight New Deal Programs and one government agency unconstitutional. President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress hoped to improve economic conditions in the United States during and immediately after the Great Depression through a series of programs known as the New Deal. Unfortunately, Roosevelt inherited a court full of older justices who disapproved of the legislation, and declared six of Congress' eight major Acts unconstitutional, thwarting Roosevelt's plans. Roosevelt was angry with the justices, whom he referred to as the "Nine Old Men," for refusing to allow New Deal policies to work as intended. In Roosevelt's mind, the Supreme Court presented a major obstacle to economic recovery and stabilization because of their conservatism. |
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Middletown in Transition
331-33 |
this was a book by robert and helen Lynd
the pair of sociologists who had reported on Muncie, the Lynds reported now, had gone to FDR. but it had not changed its values as much as the New Dealers had expected to. in general, the town also believed that radicals wanted to "wreck american civilization " perhaps the most telling of all the material that the lynds had amassed was yet another editorial from the muncie papers- one about "the forgotten man" (who was he) he is the fellow that is trying to hey along without public relief..in the meantime the taxpayers go on supporting many that would not work if they had jobs. They saw the Great Depression as an opportunity to see how the social structure of the town changed. While the researchers found that there were some social changes, residents tended to go back to the way they were once economic hardship had ended. For example, the "business class", traditionally Republican, grudgingly supported the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and accepted the money the New Deal brought into town. However, once they felt the programs weren't needed anymore, they withdrew their support. |
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Roosevelt’s response to the 1937-1938 economic downturn
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The Roosevelt Administration reacted by launching a rhetorical campaign against monopoly power, which was cast as the cause of the depression, and appointing Thurman Arnold in the anti-trust division of the U.S. Department of Justice to act, but Arnold was not effective. In February 1938, Congress passed a new AAA bill which authorized crop loans, crop insurance against natural disasters, and large subsidies to farmers who cut back production.
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Father Divine and anti-lynching legislation
263 282 355 |
father divine told his followers after the sale that he wanted to use th old mansion to create a divine, modern, mystic standard of living. there men of all creeds and door might work and be free and never become public charges. father divine was interested in moving into roosevelts field of vision. he was working all the time to remind congress that its tardiness on lynching was the shame of the land. now, from his property, roosevelt would have that reminder- he would see father divine at work.
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Wilkie’s “wager” or main issue against Roosevelt in the 1940 election
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the petition that root created said that Willlkie would "be the defender of our power"- the power of the country as a whole- "and not of the power of any institution or favored group"
thought that the New Deal had to be changed not destroyed. he said that roosevelt practiced "technique of defeatism" and was militarily unprepared for war. wilkie railed against roosevelts philosophy of distributed scarcity. he said that it was "from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power" fought for american liberalism Saying it does not consist of just reforming things. it consists also in making things.beleived that there was no limit to the productive capacity of any man. growth, not government action, would lift the US out of its troubles. he stood for the restoration of full production and reemployment by private enterprises in america. |
