HIST201 Final Exam Review Sheet I Identifications Invasion of Body Snatchers little town in CA one day these pods float across the boarder and land in town They think its related to nuclear testing Pods start getting bigger and people come out and look exactly like other people doppelgangers Everyone in town doesn t know who the real person is and who is the pod person Pod is being directed by some other alien force Metaphor for communism When we are not paying attention they are going to attack our most vulnerable and take over positions of control and lose our society all together Containment was a method formulated by George Kennan used to prevent the spread of communism in the US A component of the Cold War this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe China Korea Africa and Vietnam The word containment is associated most strongly with the policies of U S President Truman 1945 53 But later on during the New right movement people started thinking this method actually allows Communism to exist Conservatives say that the US needs to take more direct action to defeat them and remove their presence Nonviolence Was the main approach used during social and political protests the leaders of the several Civil Rights Movements chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to dismantle institutionalized racial segregation discrimination and inequality Indeed they followed Martin Luther King Jr s guiding principles of nonviolence and passive resistance MLK says that it is important and useful to be nonviolent not about passivity and doing nothing it s an active choice MLK says it works when you get attention and when you get a response Young activists push for more direct action to change the way things work by participating in sit ins conscious law breaking Ex 4 male students in NC 1960 freshman want to integrate a lunch counter at a store restaurant blacks couldn t eat with whites With over 100 students they put enough pressure on businesses by taking all seats and so whites cannot get served However they were not arrested for breaking the segregation laws which would have allowed them to have a legal challenge and fight for these unequal laws Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson had congress pass this bill in honor of JFK It prohibits discrimination in employment and public facilities on race religion national origin or sex However says nothing about violence disenfranchisement or voting equality in ballot booth The struggles are not over None of it matters if blacks can t vote It s about REAL power and real tangible results No blacks in voting rolls no blacks sitting in juries Not fair trials SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee an organization of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s Stokley Carmichael Many volunteers worked with SNCC on projects in Mississippi Alabama Georgia Arkansas and Maryland SNCC played a major role in the sit ins and freedom rides to end segregation on interstate buses the March on Washington Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years SNCC s major contribution was in its field work organizing voter registration drives and citizenship education all over the South especially in Georgia Alabama and Mississippi during summer of 1964 Levittown a planned community of cheap houses that all looked exactly identical designed by Abraham Levitt Young couples moved out of cities and moved into the suburbs It was cheap because he bought land in the middle of nowhere and turns around and sells it to people who are in need of a home and want to get out of cities stop living with their parents and build a family Levitt made the production simple because the houses were not custom made Some people thought this was boring because everything looked the same threatens peoples individuality and creates conformity within the suburbs Little boxes song by Malvina Reynolds de facto segregation De facto racial discrimination and segregation in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s was simply discrimination that was not segregation by law Jim Crow laws were legally ended in 1964 by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Continued practices of expecting African Americans to ride in the back of buses or to step aside onto the street if not enough room was present for a Caucasian person and separate but equal facilities are instances of de facto segregation The NAACP fought for de facto segregation practices to be abolished Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama Segregation of buses was odious feature of life in southern cities blacks in back whites in front Bus companies refused to hire black drivers majority of riders are black The campaign lasted for a year 1955 1956 when Rosa Parks an African American activist was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person to when the United States Supreme Court declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan in 1963 bible of the liberal wing of the womens movement It describes problem that has no name or the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s It discusses the lives of several housewives from around the United States who were unhappy despite living in material comfort and being married with children The women feel they gave up their opportunity to have a career because they are stuck at home with children Is this all women are good for Women find consensus among each other that they are dissatisfied and feel guilty they are not giving something to society This book helps them relate and suggests solutions to figure out how to change it Equal Pay Act of 1963 JFK brings it to congress in 1963 says that no employer should discriminate between employees on the basis of sex pay women same wage as men Makes it illegal to pay women less than men Affects about no one on the day it is passed because it is unlikely women and men were doing the same job anyway For the most part they had different jobs Or they made excuse that they are paying women less because less education Not until 70s or 80s that they can actually use this law to get things done Cesar Chavez a farm worker and veteran of WWII who felt he needed to improve the lives of farm workers they do not get access to good
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