APUSH Unit 7

what year did russia and us started to be on the outskirt?

1918

when did the political party switch happened?

1948, truman desegrated military, civil rights bill passed, strom thurmond from southern carolina governor racist and he formed the dixiecrat vs black rights

according to some critics, how did the casting of the Cold War as a worldwide struggle between freedom and slavery have unfortunate consequences?

A and B: it made it difficult to discern legitimate postwar struggles for economic and political freedom from those simply motivated by American interests. It suggested that the United States would align itself against postwar colonial independence movements in the name of anticommunism

Proxy War

A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate ex: korean war

Fair Deal

An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress.

in the aftermath of WW2:

B and C: the majority of returning GIs went back to work. Americans paid more for consumer goods.

in the 1950s, what did the term "totaltarianism" describe?

Facism, Nazism, and communism

what was one significant criticism of Johnson's ideas on civil rights?

Johnson's approach would increase the power of federal government too much

Potsdam

July 26, 1945, america tested trinity nuclear bomb told stalin, soviet promised to do free elections

North Alantic Treaty Organization

NATO, a military alliance of various European Countries the United States and Canada vs soviet

Why did the United States continue to support South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem's corrupt and weak regime?

Presidents Kennedy and Johnson feard losing Vietnam to communism

Who were the Dixiecrats?

Southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party"

in the 1960 sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina:

Sparked similar successful demonstrations throughout the South

why were american diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government?

Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and franklin Rooseevelt at Yatla that he would allow a democratic government in Poland

which of the following is NOT true about the growth of postwar west?

Washington and Oregon eclipseed California's population due to unprecedented employment opportunitis in the defense industry

Taft-Hartley Act

a law that restricted the power of labor unions

Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign emphasized:

a reduction in governmental regulations

McCarthyism

assault on civil liberities, means character assassination, guilt by association, abuse of power in anti-communism

the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:

authorizing the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack"in Vietnam

what did president John F Kennedy havee in common with his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower?

both tended to view the entire world through the lense of the cold war

explain capitalism, socialism, and communism.

capitalism has little government involvement, socialism has government controlling everything, communism end goal of socialism, classless society, and everyone is equal

The anti-war movement

challenged the foundation of Cold War thinking

what was one result of the development of Suburbs

construction and shopping malls

The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision

created a women's constitutional right to an abortion

Rachel Carson Silent Spring inspired the________ movement

environmental

Totalitarianism

government control over every aspect of public and private life, facist italy and nazi germany

How could Birmingham police chief Eugene Connor have undermined Martin Luther King Jr.'s strategy in Birmingham in May 1963?

he could have allowed the protesters to march unimpeded

What set President Lyndon Baines Johnson apart from his predecessor John F. Kennedy?

he knew the meaning of poverty and racial injustice from his own life experiencs

Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended?

historiacally, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values

Army-McCarthy Hearings

mccarthy who browbeat witnesses and made accusations without basis in fact

Yalta Conference

meeting with the big three about how to handle postwar germany, decided to split it up to france, america, soviet, and britian

truman doctrine

prevent communism, marshall plan gave money to europe to rebuild before soviet would, soviet built berlin wall, formed nato

the "iron curtain":

separated the free west from the communist east

Fedral government action like those at Littl Rock Highschool

sought to fill the promise of reconstruction

Iron Curtain

soviet controlled vs democrat in europe, stalin has communist government and not free elections

in 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that:

state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional

Dennis v. United States

supreme court upheld the jailing of communist party leaders, charges concerned their beliefs not actions

Black Power emerged as a response to all of the following factors EXCEPT:

th passagee of the Civil Rights Act

What did Eisenhower fear?

the Soviets and other communists abroad would use racial conflict in the U.S. to demean America and what it stood for

Why was it unlikely that the Soviet Union was going to embark on a new military campaign in the years following World War II?

the communist nation had suffered more than 20 million casualties, along with immense devestation

why did auto manufacturers and oil companies vault to the top ranks of corporate America in 1950s?

the consumer demand for the automobile boomed in this decade

Which of the followimg was NOT true of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

the crisis was part of a dispute between the societ union and the US after a US navy vessel carrying a nuclear warheads was intercepted off the coast of Turkey

why did France and other Europeans understand NATO as a form of double containment?

the pact would guard them against Soviet aggression as well as against the resurgance of a powerful Germany

what did the students of the New Left movement think was missing in America liberalism in the 1960s?

the practice of true participatory democracy

The Berlin Blockade was:

the reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a seperate currency in western Beerlin's occupied zones

how did the women's liberation movement inspire a major expansion of the idea of freedom

the women's movement included members of the middle class as well as the working class

how did white supremacists take advantage of anticommunist rehtoric?

they charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda

why did American policymakers agree to spend billons of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall plan?

they were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence

in 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that:

those in police custody had certain rights

why are the riots in American cities during the 1960s best understood as battles ?

urban blacks saw the predominantly white police forc as an occupying army

Women's Liberation:

was a movement born of other movements where female activists had experienced discriminatory treatment from their male counterparts

Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F. Kennedy

was reluctant to adress the movement's demands until 1963

After WWII, most working women:

were concentrated in low-paying, nonunion jobs such as clerical, sales, and service labor.