HIST 106 EXAM REVIEW Election Winners Truman 48 Eisenhower 52 56 Kennedy 60 Johnson 64 Nixon 68 72 G I Bill Helped veterans buy homes Go to college Post WWII Population shift Suburbs West Where did people go period of prosperity at the end of WWII sunbelt Social Welfare Programs Permanent whether Republicans or Democrats o FDR o Truman o Ike o Kennedy o Johnson o Nixon Religion in Post WW II U S Church attendance went up Majority of people identified with a church Non traditional religions e g Buddhism Post WW II Religious Attitudes Adjustments Government Post WW II Women Baby boom beings 1946 o Moms o Homemakers Lower classes still worked Post WW II Politics Churches began to adapt and the government was not troubled at all about professing a belief in a Supreme Being One Nation Under God Johnny came marching home women were knocked out of jobs Sphere of influence one nation has a measure of control over another nation or religion economic social etc Keynesianism persists John Maynard Keynes o Economist o Theory government has to get involved in economy from time to time to either moderate stimulate the economy o E g not only using Ford motors or planes cars etc East USSR sphere West U S European sphere U S Leadership Post WW II in U S Internationalist non isolationist Need foreign markets for its products Global leader Wants to spread liberty and democracy Post WW II Economy Factories survived Exports to oversea markets Overseas divisions Peace time conversion in U S Defense industries significant o Cold War o Overseas sales International Relations George F Kennan o Policy of containment Containment countries Marshall Plan 1948 o European economic recovery o George Marshall Taft Hartley Act 1947 o Not let countries take over contain them Truman Doctrine help countries dealing with external pressure stick up for these Truman vetoes this Act he s a Democrat but its passed over his veto Labor o Truman wins labor by vetoing Taft Hartley Act Capitalists Democratic Party Convention 1948 Support Truman Dixiecrats International Relations China o Communists o Nationalists o Mao o People s Republic o Taiwan Crises Berlin Airlift 1948 Mao s rise to power 1949 Hungarian uprising 1956 o Eisenhower said we don t have capacity to take military action Bay of Pigs 1961 Berlin Wall 1961 o Invasion of Cuba chaos unsuccessful o So people can t escape from East Germany into West Berlin Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 o Soviet missiles in Cuba Korea Started with North Korea and South Korea Ended in stalemate as N Korea and S Korea Good Night and Good Luck 1950s Milo Radulovich Don Hollenbeck Sen Joseph McCarthy R WI o Newspaper criticism o Worried people are going to think he s a communist sympathizer Edward R Murrow o TV think its heading in wrong direction sitcoms game shows powerful tool to educated and reform o Supportive of constitutional rights Ike Eisenhower Former general Won in 1952 1956 Hungary 1956 Warned against military industrial complex Interstate Highway Act 1956 o o Evacuation routes o Autos o Oil Cold War Iron Curtain Spheres of influence Cuban Revolution 1959 In Out Batista notorious dictator and crook Political alignment o Aligns itself with the Soviet Union o Separates the East and West spheres of influence 1960 Election Nixon R Kennedy D WINS o Catholic o Houston Speech JFK Catholic Democrat Houston Speech Believes in civil rights RVN advisers Civil Rights Organizations NAACP CORE SCLC SNCC More Militant Organizations Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army Freedom Summer Mississippi Voter education 1964 before Voting Rights Act Voter registration LBJ Civil Rights 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act is passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 come LBJ We have delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to Perlstein s Obituary for Peter Boyle RE READ THIS BEFORE THE EXAM The Compton s are worried because she s doing drugs and shacking up with Film reflected reality Hardhats clash with demonstrators Joe targeted his rants at blacks liberals and gays Joe s side of the story Was Boyle like Joe No Joe with Peter Boyle her boyfriend Gaps generational racial cultural Rick Perlstein s obituary Joe is mad at o Welfare recipients o Young people who have no respect o The screwed up music of young people o Young people s drugs and orgies Gulf of Tonkin Incident American reaction Result Viet Nam War Gulf of Tonkin resolution Escalation My Lai Vietnamization Nixon plan bring our boys home turn war over to Vietnamese Lyndon B Johnson s speech 1965 Paris peace talk o How dangerous it would be to America if the U S backs down Robert F Kennedy s speech o We need to get out of war Nixon and the War Paris peace talks Bombing as an element of diplomacy My Lai exposed Cambodian incursion Vietnamization Viet Nam s Aftermath Many Vietnamese fled Many to re education camps Communists did not hold elections U S recognized limits to its power U S Objectives in Viet Nam Prevent communist RVN Establish Saigon s control throughout RVN Dislodge VC and NVA in RVN Viet Nam War Events Gulf of Tonkin My Lai Tet Offensive o Psychologically and politically made enough of an impression on American that it eroded American public support of the war in Viet Nam Ron Kovic Born on the Fourth of July Attitudes o Ron pre RVN o Ron post RVN o Mom stop them commies o Dad not so sure o Tommy turns against the war and changes his mind At the parade 1969 o Sees that things have changed when he s riding in the car people giving the bird and flashing peace signs Conversations o Timmy Viet Nam Vet o Steve Burger Man says screw this I m going to business school 1968 Election Lyndon B Johnson Hubert H Humphrey Robert F Kennedy Eugene J McCarthy Richard M Nixon George C Wallace Popular Music and U S Society Motown o Black performers o Young black and white fans Crosses racial lines both like it Elvis Presley Bob Dylan Perlstein s Obituary N Y incident between hardhats and young demonstrators Boyle did the film explore source of Joe s anger No Some fans though Boyle thought like Joe War and Society Double V Truman desegregates U S military in 1948 Civil Rights Timeline Plessy Armed forces integrated 1948 Brown 1954 Montgomery bus boycott 1955 Central H S in Little Rock 1957 Greensboro Woolworth s Sit in 1960 University of Mississippi o Black boy wants to go here send in marshals to integrate March on Washington 1963 o Associated with MLK I have a dream speech Freedom Summer o Voter registration in Mississippi Malcolm X
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