Distrust of Soviet Union

Cold War

Distrust of Soviet Union

Distrust of USA

United Nations – June 26, 1945

Yalta Conference – Feb. 1945

Big Three

Germany and Berlin

Potsdam Conference – July 1945

Stalin’s “change of mind”

Satellite nations

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,

Hungary, Romania, Poland

George Kennan – 1946 – containment

Iron Curtain

Truman Doctrine- 1947

Turkey and Greece – 1947

Marshall Plan – 1948

Berlin Airlift – June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949

1948 – draft

Organization of American States – 1948

Western Hemisphere countries

Work together against communism

NATO – April 4, 1949 (Isolationism??)

(Warsaw Pact – 1955)

Fall of China – 1949

Korean War

June 25, 1950

38th parallel

United Nations

Douglas MacArthur

YaluRiver

Truman vs. MacArthur

July 27, 1953

Cold War at home

Second Red Scare

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Hollywood Ten – 1947

Alger Hiss – 1948

Whitaker Chambers

Richard Nixon

Sept. 3, 1949 – Soviet Union – A-Bomb

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – 1951

June 19, 1953

Joseph McCarthy - 1950

57, 81, 202

McCarthyism – “Witch Hunt”

Army-McCarthy hearings – 1953

“Have you no decency, sir?”

Venona Papers

1945 – US A-Bomb

1949 – USSR A-Bomb

1952 – USA Hydrogen bomb

1953 – USSR Hydrogen Bomb

Dwight Eisenhower as president

Brinkmanship – massive retaliation

MAD

Civil Defense – duck and cover drills, bomb shelters

Stalin dies 1953 = Nikita Khrushchev

Hungary – 1956

Iran - 1956

Eisenhower Doctrine – 1957

Sputnik – Oct. 4, 1957

Space Race

Impact on education

Neil Armstrong July 20, 1969

Cuba – 1959 – Fidel Castro

Post War America

Desegregation of the military

Executive Order 9981

Election of 1948

Dem. Harry Truman 303

Dixiecrat – Strom Thurmond 39

Rep. Thomas Dewey 189

Korean War, McCarthyism, etc.

Election of 1952

Rep. Dwight Eisenhower 442

VP – Richard Nixon

Dem. Adlai Stevenson 89

Economy

G.I. Bill 1944

Levittown

Growth of the Sunbelt

Franchises

Baby Boom

Jonas Salk – 1955

Women’s role

Leisure time

Interstate Highway Act of 1956

Conformity

Beat Movement

Beatniks

Jack Kerouac “On the Road”

Rock n Roll - Elvis Presley

20s versus 50s

“Military Industrial Complex”

New Frontier

Election of 1960

Dem. John F. Kennedy 303

Rep. Richard Nixon 219

Television debate – Sept. 26, 1960

“And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

“The best and the brightest”

Robert Kennedy

Massive retaliation vs. Flexible response

Peace Corps - 1961

Cold War not going well

Sputnik, U-2, Cuba ’59

1961 – Khrushchev said victory was inevitable

ICBM – Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles

Cuba – Fidel Castro - 1959

Bay of Pigs Invasion

CIA

April 17, 1961

JFK

Missile gap

Khrushchev’s bluff - sausages

Eisenhower’s response

Kennedy’s response

Cuban Missile Crisis – October 1962

Oct. 14 – see missiles

Oct. 22 – TV address

“quarantine”

The deal

Berlin Crisis

Berlin Wall 1961

Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev 1987

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Assassination

Dallas

November 22, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby

Abraham Zapruder

The Great Society

Lyndon Baines Johnson - LBJ

Liberalism (versus Conservatism)

Civil Rights

Civil Rights Act of 1964

24th amendment – poll tax - 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965 – literacy test

Immigration Act of 1965 – end Quota System

War on Poverty

Economic Opportunity Act

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

Project Head Start 1964

Medicare - old

Medicaid – kids in poverty

Vietnam War

Civil Rights Movement

Why did African slavery develop in colonies?

Atlantic World - Triangular Trade – Middle Passage

Stono Rebellion, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

3/5 Compromise

2nd Great Awakening

Richard Allen

Frederick Douglas

William Lloyd Garrison

Theodore Dwight Weld

Harriet Tubman

David Walker

American Colonization Society

Dred Scott 1857

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

54th Massachusetts

13th amendment

14th amendment

15th amendment

Voting barriers

Reconstruction 1865-1877

Radical Republicans

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

Compromise of 1877

Freedman’s Bureau

Sharecropping system

Crop-lien System

Jim Crow Laws

Exodusters 1879

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

Booker T. Washington

Tuskegee Institute

Atlanta Compromise 1895

W.E.B. DuBois

Talented Tenth

Niagara Movement - 1905

NAACP – 1909

Great Migration

Red Summer 1919

Marcus Garvey

Harlem Renaissance – people?

Mechanical cotton picker – 1944

Truman integrates armed forces– 1948

Executive Order 9981

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education 1954

Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks – 1955

Bus boycott - 381 days

MLK Jr.

Little Rock Crisis – 1957

CentralHigh School

Little Rock Nine

Governor Orval Faubus

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (snick) Stokely Carmichael

Freedom Riders 1961

Ku Klux Klan

George Wallace – Gov. of Alabama

“I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

March on Washington – August 28, 1963

“I have a dream”

24th amendment – 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Lester Maddox 1965

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Race Riots 1964-68

Long Hot Summers

Watts - 1965

Changing philosophy among Civil Rights leaders…

Malcolm X

“by any means necessary”

Nation of Islam/ Black Muslims

Stokely Carmichael

“Black Power”

Black Panthers

Huey Newton

MLK – April 4, 1968

James Earl Ray

Memphis, Tenn.

Other civil rights movements….

Chicano Movement

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers (UFW)

Delores Huerta

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Russell Means

Alcatraz 1969

Wounded Knee 1973

Stonewall Riots 1969

Obergefell v. Hodges 2015