HIST 106 1nd Edition Final Exam Study Guide Lectures 19 26 Lecture 19 1946 Winston Churchill spoke at the graduation for a small college in Missouri and said an iron that has descended over Eastern Europe 1949 Russia begins testing the atomic bomb which makes US suspicious of Russians spies Rosenberg Case US execute a Julius and Ethel for allegedly spying which becomes a national affair Truman authorizes the development of hydrogen bomb Communists take over China Reinforces US fears that communism is taking over US reinforces Truman doctrine 1950 1952 Korean War 1 Solved the communistic issue of who s in charge 2 Was a model for the Vietnam War 3 Alarms the American public Begins with the North Koreans pouring down South all the way to the bottom Inchon Invasion President Truman sends in marines to Pusan and moves up to Inchon Goes across the 38 parallel and cuts the Koreans off US attacks at Chosin Reservoir Marines are fighting the Chinese General Douglas McArthur wants to attack the Chinese speaks at several conferences Truman does not agree By taking McArthur down Truman solves the issue of who is in charge of the war War ends with the US pushing North Koreans to the 38 Parallel to sign the an armistice 58 000 loses in 3 years Racism was prevalent Rocky and Bullwinkle rocky and Bullwinkle are fighting the Russians The Lone Ranger and Tonto Tonto means stupid President Dwight David Eisenhower Claims he is neither a Republican nor Democrat but run for Republican party Vice President Richard Nixon 1953 1954 Is caught stealing 18 thousand from Republican Funds Gives a speech on TV The Checkered Speech and never mentions the incident Joe McCarthy Leader of the Anti Communistic Hysteria Goes after the US army It s wrong because the army was protecting them First televised hearing Things the public noticed from the hearing o McCarthy was drunk o He didn t know what he was doing o He had a very high pitched voice o By the end of it people questioned his sexuality Point of Order a book that tells how McCarthy went down in the hearing Turning point for racism Supreme Court case Brown vs Board of Education Supreme court declared that separate but equal schools for children of different races violated the constitution Southern Manifesto Document signed by 101 members of Congress from southern states that argued that the Supreme Court s decision in Brown v Board of Education contradicted the constitution 1959 Black Like Me was written about racism Throughout the 1950 s Polio was a threat to American public People prevented catching it by attempting to look alike They think that Polio won t be able to find them if they look like everybody else People are trying to be invisible US assumption s 1 Communists are giving the US polio 2 Think black Americans are carrying polio that the communists are giving People avoided interaction with blacks Overview of the 1950 s US is declining as producers of goods Bigger farms are buying smaller farms People are changing their crops to cash crops corn soy beans ect Baby Boom 1945 1957 4 3 million babies are born 1 infant born every 7 seconds As population is increasing death rate is decreasing b c of new medicine Life expectancy is going up Everybody has cars and is mobile People are able to go on vacations Creation of highways 1960 Rise of Motel Motor Hotels White Americans are fleeing urban cities and moving to suburbs Big business is coming back Eisenhower and Nixon are reelected in 1956 JFK is elected and has an I don t care attitude about communism US support every dictator in the Western World as long as they state they are AntiCommunist MISTAKE Lecture 20 Government creates propaganda films to show public what to do in case of Communistic attack o Bert the Turtle People in the panhandle would interview kids about their parents trying to find out if they were communist Russia sent the first satellite into space Sputnik o This increased the US fear of communistic take over Movies were made about fighting Communists o Star Wars Rocky IV Godzilla Mid 1950 s o 1955 Rosa Parks a black women sat in the front of a bus and was arrested o 1956 1959 Flat University Students would hold sit ins o 1954 1956 High school college students are starting to wonder about hypocrisy of the government o 1956 Rebel Without a Cause was a movie about the government Vietnam War o Starts in 1954 o French loses control of holdings in Vietnam o Battle of Dien Bien Phu French army appeal to US to aid o US decides to take over for the French but in return want French to get into NATO o US takes over Vietnam in 1954 o 1960 US has nearly 1000 advisor in Vietnam o Turning point The election of a new President Eisenhower ends presidency in 1960 Election is against Richard Nixon v JFK Election of 1960 o Closest election in 75 years o JFK won by 111 000 votes o JFK praised the sit in movements while Nixon minimized his identification with the movements o JFK won by out anti communisting Nixon 1st thing JFK does is get involved in the Bay of Pigs o Bay of Pigs Cuban refugees are trained by CIA to invade Cuba o Made JFK look foolish JFK goes to East Berlin wall and makes a speech and mispronounces words Looks foolish JFK s good actions o Passes Housing Act in 1961 o Passes Minimum Wage Act Went from 75 hr to 1 25 hr o Passes Creates Peace Court o Creates The Green Parades 1962 o US starting to pull away from Anti Communism o Cuban Missile Crisis US does over flight over Cuba saw that they had missiles given to them by Russians US began to mobilize wanted to get rid of missiles JFK set up a blockade against Cuba as Russians are heading towards Cuba with missiles When Russian ships met US they turned around and went back to Russia It s as close to a nuclear war as US gets 1963 o November 22nd JFK came to Dallas TX for a parade and was shot to death o People start to realize how JFK and Lincoln s death are similar o 4 theories how JFK got shot 1 Lee Harvey Oswald shot him with a rifle bought for 12 2 Killed by a group of the CIA b c he was trying to end anti communism 3 Killed by a shooter who was sent by JFK Operation Mongoose to kill Castro and was sent back to shot JFK 4 Johnson killed him so that he could become President least likely Lecture 21 Lyndon Johnson He does everything that JFK promised to do o Calls his administration The Great Society o Office of Economic Opportunity launched a war on Poverty o 10 tax cut o Pours money into the machine o Passes many programs of the War on