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The Eisenhower Era Korean armistice 1 952 Eisenhower vaulted Korea shortly subsequently winning the presidency waited 7 months in the beginning resorting to thermonuclear warfare Koreans compromised until 38th check troops-McCarthy Hearings 1954 McCarthy attacked the Army as communist Army attacked him on television for 35 geezerhood McCarthy d avouchcastf both(prenominal) Jim Crow Segregated sears from puritys Emmett savings bank 14 year old dull who vacationed in Mississippi, allegedly whistled at a white woman (Carolyn Bryant was subsequently beaten, abused, and polish off then tied to a cotton glen and thrown Into a river Montgomery mound BoycottAfter Rosa Parks is arrested, MILK rallies the opprobrious lodge to do this. This seriously support the bus companies. This lasted more than a year, and finish in 56 when the SC declare segregated buses unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of fostering 1951 (SC) Marshall argues, wins this one. Unanimous vote on a lower floor the Earl Warren court that separate scarcely equal is a false doctrine.Little rock-and-roll Central High School 1957 9 black students trying to go to shoal needed to be defend by national troops Southern Christian leaders Conference MILK and n previous(predicate) degree centigrade otherwise black ministers form this ecesis in 1957 to encourage nonviolent kvetch to provoke segregators and win support from diminish reciprocal ohmern whites.Although it got more blacks to support the movement, it failed to foam controersy or get white sympathy school-age child Non-violent Coordinating citizens committee Created by sit-ins lack of patience resulted in their downfall Inter say Highway impress of 1 956 1 956 more trenchant Jobs and benefits (trucking, gasoline, automobile) deprived passenger trains, decreased air force timber, robbed downtowns of business due(p) to shopping outlets stolon Secretary of the Soviet Union- premier- was in attempts to negotiate towards conciliation with Eisenhower but 13-2 shite made such attempts void geneva Conference After Vietnam fell to Nationalists rive Vietnam at the 17th parallel elections 2 years later to Join them 1955 Eisenhower &038 Khrushchev overspread Skies Khrushchev thought it was an American ply for dull and rejected the idea Battle of eat Been PH 1954 French corned Indochina French asked for American support America non involved Warsaw P make 1955 Soviet Union reacted to Antas addition of West Germany, protect its communistic satellites Organization of Petroleum exporting Countries 960 control petroleum exports controlled Western countries Sputnik 1957 Soviets bump I small, PART II heel displaying Soviet superiority provided Communism with certificate maybe intercontinental ballistic projectiles created missile gap, NASA, and ENDED National Defense and commandment Act 1958 increase education to argue with the Soviets million in form of scholarships U-2 sleuth plane incident The inc ident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U. S. Denied the true innovation of the plane at scratch line, but was agonistic to when the U. S. S. R. Reduced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their hold of being spied on aerially. The incident decline East-West relations during the Cold War and was a bulky embarrassment for the coupled States.Fidel Castro usurped power from Batista regime by guerilla warfare, US unable to execute effective coup, became troops dictator Betty Friedman Feminists who published the Feminine Mystique 1963 in advance(p) womens rights movement to break away from suburban housewife life and to deal with struggles due to sexism United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) Chapter 39 The Stormy Sixties John F. Kennedy The 35th United States President who represented the state of Massachusetts in the U. S. House of R epresentatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U. S. Senate from 1953 until 1961.Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the make of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights crusade and early events of the Vietnam War. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. New Frontier The front program advocated by JEFF in the 1960 election. He promised to revivalist the stagnant economy and act out reform legislation in education, wellness care, and civil rights. Berlin Wall In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high-pitched barrier to seal off their orbit of Berlin in order to stop the eat of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The fence was torn down in 1989. large Retaliation Dulles nuclear bombs pliable Response the buildup of conventional troops and weapons to go away a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapons Bay of Pigs In April 1961, a host of Cuban exiles organized a nd supported by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency come on the southwesternern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full certificate of indebtedness for the failure. Cuban Missile Crisis the 1962 confrontation among US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba Freedom Riders some(prenominal) black and white Americans that took to riding national transportation in the deep south to demand that the Boonton v. Virginia verdict be upheld. This resulted in many busses being attacked held in 1963 to instal support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress.Martin Luther King gave his famous l founder a dream Speech. 250,000 people attended the rally Civil Rights Act of 1964 This act made racial, religious, and sex favoritism by employers illegal and gave the government the power to put on all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. outstanding Society President Johnson called his meter reading of the Democratic reform program the gravid Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal sanction to education. War on Poverty Waged by Johnnys Great Society programs that presented a unadulterated liberal platform. Civil and voting rights acts common school funding?when the rich go to the suburbs all the poverty and squalor remained in the cities, destroying the tax base which of course had cast out effects on public education Medicare and Medicaid National endowment for arts and liberal arts (PBS) Clean air and water quality acts Endangered species preservation act (1966) plausive Action policies of the government aimed at increase access to Jobs, schooling, and opportunities to people previously discriminated against bake vs.. Board of Regents Gulf of Tontine settlement Congress gave up its war fashioning powers to the President in this resolutio n which Johnson himself called Grandmas darkness shirt, a tool to cover everything. Medicare -available to all elderly Americans regardless of need -form of federal upbeat assistance -assisted medical community because the fed paved all fees Medicaid all-embracing federal medical assistance to welfare recipients and other indigent people of all ages Voting Rights Act of 1965 nix discrimination in the rental or procure of homes and a broad range of other housing related transactions Passed when LB was president, outlawed poll taxes. Freedom Summer 1964 sullens and whites red ink to polling places to ensure that the law is being apply and blacks do have the right to vote. This resulted in much force out in the south including murders, battery, etc. Malcolm X spread ideas of black nationalism. Disagreed w/ both the tactics and goals of the early civil rights movement. Minister of the nation of SIAM. spurned his original lift because it was his familys slave name Systoles Car michael Founder of Black Power Black Power the belief that blacks should fight prickle if attacked. T urged blacks to achieve economic emancipation by starting and supporting their own business. Domino Theory the political conjecture that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control opposed the Vietnam War and believed the United States should withdraw its forces from Vietnam. Hawks supported U. S. Involvement in the Vietnam War and believed America should increase troops force to win the war.Et Offensive Et the first day of the Vietnamese New class -communist forces launched an enormous attack on American strongholds through- UT Vietnam -one of the first televised battles, revealed brutality of war, great effect on election of 1968 -Walter enthrone -Democrats Criticizing Johnson Chicago Democratic Convention 1968 -Tons of protesting and violence -Humphrey received nomination Counterculture Drugs are mostly harmle ss social relaxants and as for sex, if it feels good, do it. Students for a Democratic Society Student group opposed to militarism and racism called for democratic democracy. George Wallace Once governor of Alabama, a segregationist that ran as the candidate of the American individual Party in 1968 and won louver states in the South.