<p>My knowledge of this time period was extremely limited so I made up an outline today. Amazing-it worked like a charm. I understand the period so much more thoroughly! Feel free to add on. </p>
<p>I just might do this for a few other eras-it works so well!</p>
<p>1950s: Truman & Eisenhower </p>
<p>Cold War </p>
<pre><code>Commies in Greece and Turkey->
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<p>Truman Doctrine= support those fighting commies<br>
Marshall Plan: Gave money to nations to recover after WWII
Point 4 Program: jr. ^ (Asia, Latin America, and Africa)
NATO: aid any nation attacked
Soviets form Warsaw Treaty
Commies take over Czechoslovakia
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Air Lift
Berlin split
Space Race
Sputnik: obliterated American assumption of its Nuclear superiority
Overhaul of American education system
Arms Race
H bomb
New Look=more nuclear weapons than ground fights<br>
Mutal Assured Destruction (MAD)= whoever launched attack would be attacked
CIA aids secretly
Ends w/ detent (relax tensions) </p>
<p>Korean War 1950-1953 (under UN flag)</p>
<p>Fight against Red China<br>
North Korea: Commi & South Korea: US
US & UN send troops to help South (MacArthur) push N.
Chinese help North, push back S. to 38th<br>
Armistice: treaty leaving same boundaries as before </p>
<p>Suez Canal </p>
<pre><code>Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalises canal
Eisenhower Doctrine= US appose Soviet Aggression w/ troops
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<p>Economy
Humming, lots of jobs, GI Bill of Rights
Lots of Government Spending
Taft-Hartley Act: Restricts Unions (No more closed shop)
Employers didnt have to hire only union members
Fair Deal: Truman tries to extend New Deal (only expansion of unemployment benefits went through, but inspired LBJs Great Society)
Interstate Highway Act-ended depressions w/ jobs, miles of interstate highways, more homogenious culture, undermined railroad and environment
Suburbs
(Eisenhower) Average twice income of boom of 1920s<br>
Unions and Businesses merged (AFL-CIO) </p>
<p>Social </p>
<pre><code>Baby booming
Spocks Baby and Child Care tells women to stay at home
More Religion
Red Scare
Smith Act: no conspiracy for overthrowing government
Alger Hiss & Rosenburgs arrested as spies
McCarthyism= Joe McCarthy accuses commis
TV: Nixon vs. JFK
Increased stereotyping
Playboy, Barbie, Elvis
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<p>1960s: JFK, LBJ </p>
<p>Cuba</p>
<pre><code>Bay of Pigs 1961=US backed troops rebel against commi, Castro
Locals didnt join in
Encouraged USSR to build berlin wall and test nuclear weapons
Kennedy forms Peace Corps
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets put missiles in Cuba (could attack US)
Navy blockaded Cuba
Khrushchev agreed remove missiles if US wouldnt invade Cuba
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<p>Vietnam (no UN flag) 1965-1973</p>
<pre><code>Fight against Viatnamies
Viatcong (north) v. South and US
WWII gives Indochina back to French from Japan
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<p>French Indochina in communist rebellion
N.=commi & S.=democracy
Geneva Conference= splits Vietnam 17th parallel<br>
US wont sign /Domino Theory (Eisenhower)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution= U.S. Navy ship Maddux fired on->send troops to Vietnam
Tet Offensive= commi attacks
Shown on tv-> US realized not so easy, more angry people<br>
America confused
Jungle and Geurilla warfair undid US efforts
Paris Accords=N. took over whole country
Americas 1st decisive defeat </p>
<p>Social
New Frontier=JFKs theory liberal (contrasted w/ Eisenhower)
Good Cabinet<br>
Kennedy shot by Oswald
Great Society LBJ: eliminate poverty and racial injustice,
Medicare Act
Economic Opportunity Act
Abandoned for Vietnam
Draft burning
March against death
drugs
Homosexuality embraced more
Rachel Carsons silent spring ->environmental issues </p>
<p>Civil Rights </p>
<pre><code>Brown v. BOE, Topeka=segregation in schools unconstitutional
School in Little Rock w/ fed troops escorts black students
Civil Rights Act 1964=outlawed segregation
Voting Rights Act=removes literacry tests (black votes double)
Protesters
MLKjr=peaceful
Southern Christian Leaders Conference
Assassinated by James Earl Ray
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<p>Malcolm X=violent, muslim
Black Power Movement
Race Riots (Watts in LA) </p>
<p>La Raza=Mexican movement lead by Chicanos (Cesar Chavez) </p>
<p>Native Americans= Indian Civil Rights Act
Gave US rights but allowed them to settle in their own customs </p>
<p>Feminism</p>
<pre><code>1970-women earned 0.60 for every male dollar
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Ammendment=not passed
Roe vs. Wade (1973)= legalized abortion in first 3 months
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)= break free of domestic roles
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<p>1970s: Nixon, Ford, Carter </p>
<p>Watergate </p>
<p>5 men from CREEP (Committee Re-elect President) break into Watergate Hotel to steal Democratic Election Plans
Nixon denies any knowledge (Turned in by Deep Throat)
Secret Tapes reveal new side of Nixon
Nixon Quits </p>
<p>*Foreign </p>
<p>Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
Limited arms between USSR and US
Sparked hope for agreement between powers
Camp David Accord </p>
<pre><code>Deal between Egypt and Israel
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<p>Iran </p>
<pre><code>Shah of Iran comes to US for treatment
Hostages held at Embassy
Shah died
Hostages freed last day of Carters term
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<p>*Economy </p>
<p>Inflation soaring
Ford didnt reduce dependence on foreign oil->jacked up oil prices
Using more oil than it was producing </p>
<p>*Social </p>
<p>Nixon Doctrine: pledged US from protector to military partner
3 strikes against Ford: Nixon Pardon, humiliation in Vietnamn, bad economy
Carter starts his term with pardon to Vietnam draft evaders </p>
<p>1980s: Reagan</p>
<p>Social </p>
<pre><code>Christian Evangelism->conservative politics
TV Evangelism
Teflon President
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<p>Economics </p>
<pre><code>Tax cuts
Reaganomics
Cut taxes for businesses and wealthy->investment-> trickle down
Seemed to work, but led to depression at end of term
Didnt cut national spending+less taxes+expensive devices=
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<p>Increased national debt to 3 trillion<br>
Foreign Affairs </p>
<p>Strategic Defense Initiative=missile-destroying lasers in space (wasnt passed)</p>