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25 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of US foreign policy post WWII |
collective security, multilateral economic framework which bolstered non-Communist nations |
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Methods of communist containment |
military engagements in Korea and Vietnam |
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Foreign involvement fluctuations during Cold War |
between periods of direct and indirectmilitary confrontation and periods of mutual coexistence (detente) |
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Alliances during Cold War |
Asia, Africa, and Middle East, many alliances remained nonaligned |
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Effects of Cold War competition in Latin America |
U.S. supported non-Communist regimes with varying levels of commitment to democracy. |
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Causes and Effects of US involvement in Middle East |
Ideological, military, and economic concerns shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East, several oil crises in the region sparking attempts at creating a national energy policy |
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Debated policies to root out communists within US |
debates over the power of thefederal government, acceptable means for pursuing international anddomestic goals, and the proper balance between liberty and order. |
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Causes of Anti-War movements in US |
Korean conflict produced minor opposition, Vietnam War created the rise of antiwar protests that became more as war escalated |
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Debates concerning Foreign and military involvment |
debated the merits of a large nuclear arsenal, the "military-industrial complex," and the appropriate power of the executive branch in conducting foreign and military policy. |
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Strategies used to combat racial discrimination |
legal challenges, direct action, and nonviolent protesttactics |
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Methods to promote greater racial justice |
Brown v. Board of Education, and the Civil Rights Act of1964 |
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Effects of white resistance to desegregation |
sparking a series of social and political crises across the nation,while tensions among civil rights activists over tactical and philosophical issues increased after 1965. |
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Equality for other groups besides African Americans |
Stirred by a growing awareness of inequalities in American society andby the African American civil rights movement, activists also addressed issues of identity and social justice, such as gender/sexuality and ethnicity. |
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Causes and effects of movement to address poverty |
advocates raised awareness of the prevalence and persistence ofpoverty as a national problem, sparking efforts to address this issue. |
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Lyndon Johnson's Great Society |
efforts to use federal power to end racial discrimination,eliminate poverty, and address other social issues while attacking communism abroad. |
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Unintentional consequences of the realization of liberal ideals |
helped energize a newconservative movement that mobilized to defend traditional visions of morality and the proper role of state authority. |
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arguments against liberal results |
Groups on the left also assailed liberals, claiming they did toolittle to transform the racial and economic status quo at home and pursued immoral policies abroad. |
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Effects of federal spending, baby boom, and technological development |
developments helped spur economicgrowth, middle-class suburbanization, social mobility, a rapid expansion of higher education, and the rise of the “Sun Belt” as a political and economic force. |
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Causes of challenges to conformity by artists and youth |
These economic and social changes, in addition to the anxietyengendered by the Cold War, led to an increasingly homogeneous mass culture |
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Conservative approach to non-conformity |
challenges to the traditional family, increasingly promoted their own values and ideology. |
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Effects of economic boom on immigration |
sought access to the economic boom and other benefits of theUnited States, especially after the passage of new immigration laws in 1965. |
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Response to the abuse of natural resources |
problems, activists and legislators began to call forconservation measures and a fight against pollution. |
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Family structure of Americans after WWII |
undergoing profound changes as well as the number of working women increased and many social attitudes changed |
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Counterculture movement of 1960s |
Young people who participated in the counterculture of the 1960s rejected many of the social, economic,and political values of their parents generation |
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Conservatives v. liberals |
Conservatives and liberals clashed over many new social issues |
