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Battle of leyte Gulf (1944)
(1944)1st major battle in the Philippines in October 1944; largest naval battle ever fought; Jap's used kamikazes; Allied victory. Allied victory; eventually take control of all Philippines.|||
Harry S Truman
(1945- 1953:) He issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces.Truman was crucial in the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which greatly accelerated Western Europe's economic recovery. 2 terms first thing he deals with is the Cold War the second one was hard, Korean and Vietnam war, nothing seems to be going right.
NATO
(1949): pledged mutual defense against any future Soviet attack. Warsaw Pact. North Atlantic treaty organization , mutual defense between allied Countries China civil war ends China ends their civil war.
Sicily and Italy fall
(Her) Allied soldiers of America/Britain invaded Italy, which resulted in the capture of Sicily in August 1943. Therefore Mussolini was cut off from Italy's power along with the surrendering of the new Italian government.
Operation Torch
(11/8/1942)The allied troop landings in French North Africa. Patton was relieved of command after slapping some one.
Bear gets the Bomb-
1949- The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic bomb, years before western experts thought they would be capable of doing this.
Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam
1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable. France wats o regain Vietnam and ask USA for help and USA helps France because Vietnam has a communist leader. usa stay within arms reach.
"War" on poverty
1960 The centerpiece of the Great Society was the crusade to eradicate poverty.Michael Harrington's The Other America (1962) In the 1960s, the administration attributed poverty to an absence of skills and a lack of proper attitudes and work habits. The War on Poverty concentrated on equipping the poor with skills and rebuilding their spirits and motivation. This included health, education and welfare programs that Congress passed in 1964 and 1965. The original idea came under Kennedy and was continued under L. Johnson when it became a part of his "Great Society." The Council of Economic Advisers was closely related to actions regarding this term including the Economic Opportunity Act, the Job Corps, and the Community Action Program. All of these acts helped to combat poverty and help the poor in various ways.
The cold war
After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. The no logical war.
Doolittle's Raid on japan
Also knows at the Tokyo Raid. Raised american morale, and US wanted revenge for what happened at pearl harbor. James H doolittle bombed tokyo and other japanese cities. showed that japan was vulnerable to attack.
Battle of the coral sea (1942):
Both sides used new kind of naval warfare, stopped japan's southward advance, allies suffered more losses in ships and troops than Japanese, airplanes attacked ships. Naval battle between Japan and the US which halted the Japanese movement towards Australia, but resulted in heavy losses for the US.
Brown vs. board of education (1954)
Brown vs Board of Education, Topeka Kansas-1954 case results in a ruling that American schools must be desegregated. i.e. no more separate black and white schools.
The Freedom Riders
Diane nash organized freedom riderwere civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States
"Dixie-crats" and strom Thurmond
Dixiecrats-southern segregationist democrats lead by South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond, attempt to deny the presidential election from Harry Truman due to his support for desegregation.
1952- "We Like Ike"
Dwight Eisenhower President Slogan. Republican candidate 1952 we like ike the slogan written on pro-Eisenhower buttons during the presidential campaign of 1952.
The Truman Doctrine
So nearsighted he need to cheating the eyes exam. President Truman's policy of giving American aid to nations threatened by communist expansion.
Iran Hostage crisis(1979- 81):
Revolution marked a shift from socialism to religious fundamentalism. And when the Iranian shah was allowed to receive medical treatment in US Khomeini's troops invaded the US embassy and kept it hostage for months.
Election of 1968
Robert Kennedy = LBJ's perceived weakness convinced Kennedy to run for President. Lyndon B. Johnson = announced dramatic change in Vietnam policy, US seek negotiations to end war, bombing of North Vietnam will eventually stop Richard Nixon vs Hubert Humphrey & George Wallace |. Richard Nixon wins
Return to the Philippines (1944):
landed in the Philippines 2 month later, where they destroyed most of the enemy fleet in the battle of of Leyte Gulf. MacArthur laid his troops on the Islands. The plan almost fail they went for the decoy air carrier but then they have a carrier that weight 72,000 tons call Yamato, the USA attack so had retreat. Fist time Japan uses decoy. We lose 5 ships. Japan 4 air crrriers, 3bb, 10 crussiers, 9 destroyers
Okinawa
largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War, 82-day-long battle. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use a large island close to mainland Japan as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. many local civilians were killed or committed suicide. (1945)Is south of the Japanese home islands. The Japanese fight hard because these will be the base to fight the japanese islands. Pretty small island. Took 3 months to secure the island. At first the Japanese do not resist
Meanwhile in Europe
little ice age ended back in the early 1800s.
Henderson field:
name of the airstrip (landing of aircraft) taken by US from Japanese at Guadalcanal Marines|names after Loften Henderson (marine that was killed in Midway)
Negotiating from strength
negotiate from strength-Reagan builds up the US military, especially the navy and the nuclear missile arsenal. Then negotiates with Russia for both sides to reduce their numbers of nuclear missiles, once the US was in a superior position.
The berlin blockade and Airlift:
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. So theres Eastern Rule and Western, Berlin wants to be Western but is geographically in Eastern. Soviet blocks all land transportation into Berlin, but US uses the airlift instead to send aid. The soviets they blockaded West Berlin from the rest of the world, hundreds of American and British planes carried tons of food, oil, and supplies to the 2 million West Berliners everyday lasted for a year until Stalin decided to lift the blockade because it wasn't working) one of the soldiers drops candy for the kids was a great and humanitarian thing to do. We were feeding the enemy's (German citizens)
Churchill's "Iron curtain" Speech
out of the power. Separation of Eastern Europe from the West. in speech a metaphoric wall dividing the democratic nations of the West from the communist nations of the East, Churchill delivers these speech in a college in Missouri he warns USA about the soviets.
Gail Halvorsen:
pilot who drops candy to children during german kids to Berlin Airlift. His nickname is "Wiggly Wings."
Iron Bottom Sound
refers to the heavily contested waters around Guadalcanal which are the graveyards for dozens of American and Japanese ships and hundreds of planes.
Watergate
resulted in the resignation of Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst in 1973. volved more high-level government officials than any previous political scandal. Nixon was obsessed with secrecy and viewed critics as a threat to national security. Pentagon Papers led to the plumbers.It break-in was covered up by the White House. Nixon's tapes WatergateFirst USA president to resign for a scandal. was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of 43 people, including dozens of top Nixon administration officials. A series of scandals occurring during the Nixon administration in which members of the executive branch organized illegal political espionage against their perceived opponents and were charged with violation of the public trust, bribery, contempt of Congress, and attempted obstruction of justice.
JFK assassinated
riding in an open roofed car in a parade on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. There were 3-5 shots fired, and one hit him in the head and killed him. JFK dies in Dallas tax on delay plaza. was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza.[1] Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade.
Marshall Plan
sends around 12-14 billion dollars of aid to western Europe to rebuild after WW2. Aid is offered to Russia and Eastern Europe but it is refused.
"I Have a Dream" (1963)
speech
Stagflation
stagnant economic growth and high inflation.Misery index Prices go up but no paycheck , economy crisis . Energy prices go up , corean policy is a mess. Jim carter can't negotiate a peace treaty.
Rosie the riveter
symbolizes the American women going into the factories to build the weapons that win the war
The Pusan Perimeter
tip of the Korean peninsula where the South Koreans were stuck before MacArthur came
Eugene "Bull" Connor
unleashed his forces against the children. King made the bold decision to send black school children into the streets of Birmingham. Police Commissioner who personally supervised a brutal effort to break up the peacful marches, arrestion hundreds of demonstrators and using attack dogs, tear gas, electric cattle prods, and fires hoses in full view of television cameras. I have a dream 1963 Speech made by martín Luther inning jr
The Tet Offensive
1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment LBG said always we were wining on the Vietnam war and when the ted offense happens there was a credibility war. This will kill LGB political ambitions he doesn't run because of Vietnam. The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968. Regular and irregular forces of the People's Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The purpose of the offensive was to utilize the element of surprise and strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place. The Tet Offensive undermined Lyndon Johnson's credibility and decreased the people's support of the Vietnam war.
Results of the War
50-70 million dead. Germany and Japan utterly ruined. America and Russia are the new world superpowers. Old empires like England and France are badly weakened and will see their colonies rapidly slip away in the following 20-30 years, i.e. Africa, India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc.
D-Day! Operation overload
6/61944 Major involvement of american troop in Europe until this date. On this day American, British and Canadian soldiers under the command of general Dwight D.Eisenhower landed in Normandy in northwestern France. Most Sea-land operation in history. Is a day when a certain military operation starts. The most famous of the d-days is the 6 of June 1944 when allies invade Normandy. 1)aero born drop 2 am, 2) art de it 1 am - 4 am, 3) aerial attack 3 am, 4) naval attack 5 am, 5) the invasion.
Japan surrenders
9(September) /2/1945: They couldn't withstand us power of new weapon and the surrender
Results of the Airlift
: Milk, coal and meat. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict. The us send food and candy to German kids tat the end of the war , good for public relations. Kids will write back
China's civil war ends
: The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1950. Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. China ends their civil war.
V J Day 8/15/1945:
: Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. - That kiss picture show in class. sailor and nurse kissing
Dewey defeats Truman?!?
A group of left-wing critics of Truman's foreign policy formed the Progressive Party. Henry Wallace - Truman's main opponent was the Republican Thomas A. Dewey. - truman's success represented one of the greatest upsets in American political history. The polls though that Dewey did and got lazy and find check befor the results came out and Truman won the election.
JFK as president
America moving forward in a new direction. He was the first media president, swaying many voters by his performance in the first televised presidential debate. He won the election on an extremely small margin... promised to be more active in the fight against communism. Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with Communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, the United States military failed in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false-flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba.
LBJ as president
Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; Democrat; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, promoted his "Great Society" plan, part of which included the "war on poverty", Medicare and Medicaid established; Vietnam: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive LBJ was the vice president because JFK asking to be, and now is the next on the presidency, due to JFK assasination.
The US withdraws
Americans opposed the war. Nixon came under increasing pressure to terminate the conflict, thus withdraw troops.
The energy crisis
Another problem arose in October 1973. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), made up mostly of Arab nations, was angry over American support of Israel. They ordered and embargo (complete ban) on American oil shipments. The United States imported one-quarter of its oil from Middle Eastern countries, so the oil embargo hurt Americans The energy prices go up, when Carter entered office inflation soared, due to toe the increases in energy prices by OPEC. In the summer of 1979, instability in the Middle East produced a major fuel shortage in the US, and OPEC announced a major price increase. Facing pressure to act, Carter retreated to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Maryland Mountains. Ten days later, Carter emerged with a speech including a series of proposals for resolving the energy crisis.
Battle of the philippine sea (1944)
Battle between the US and Japan which secured the Marianas Islands under US control, putting the US within striking distance of Japan by air. As we take the Marianna islands, the Japanese send 9 air craft carriers, and 450 ships, but the USA has being building to. The USA carriers were a total of 15 and 900 ships and were faster and better. The Japanese damage only one ship and 0 carriers, Japan loses 6 aircraft carrier and 40 ship. The Japanese are loosing. The Marianna's turkey shoot.
The Bay of pigs (1961)
Bay of Pigs was US backed Cuban rebels invading Cuba in 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion was a complete failure.
Fall of Saigon (1975)
Cease-fire agreement between North & South Vietnam collapsed, North Vietnam launched all out invasion of South, US provided economic aid but refused to send troops; North Vietnamese tanks rolled in Saigon and captured the city --> South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam
China intervenes:
China helps North Korea Stalemate and MacArthur fired MacArthur get fired by Truman for not following orders totally unpopular but necessary. MacArthur wanted to invade China and attack them too but Truman felt that attacking China would lead to another world war which he did not want.
Interstate Highway System
DE also approach as modern republicanism. Eisenhower bring the highway system , great system to move and evacuate, big success. Ase on military routs.
The Berlin wall Falls (1989)
Erich Honecker, east German leader against whose regime began the demonstrations that ended. Symbolizes collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and USSR; end of Cold War; November 1989
The holocaust
Execution of Jews by Nazi Germany After the russian victory at kursk six months later sent surviving units on long retreat back toward germany. Millions of poles and at least 20 millions Russians, probably many more perished - not only soldiers but civilian victims of starvation, disease by German soldiers. Hitler embarked on the "final Solution" By 1945 6 millions Jewish man, women, and children had died in Nazi death Camps. Came called Holocaust was the horrifying culmination of the nazi belief that germans constituted a "master race" destined to rule the world.
Orval Faubus Vs. the Little Rock 9
He was the governor of Arkansas during the time of the Little Rock school Crisis. He attempted to block the integration by using the national guard, leading to a confrontation with the Eisenhower and ultimately integration of the school. 5 African Americans students that integrate the schools, paratroopers have to protect the 5 students Russia makes fun of USA because while they were trying to occupy the moon. Usa is try for to segregate schools.
V E Day 5/8/1945
May 8th, victory in europe, formal end of the german in the pacific american forces moved ever closer to japan. first thing he deals with is the Cold War the second one was hard, Korean and Vietnam war, nothing seems to be going right.
Selma and the voting Rights Act
In 1965, King led a group in a march from Selma to Montgomery.The federal government took action when there was violence against nonviolent demonstrators.1965 Voting Rights Act, Twenty-fourth Amendment Ednund pet tus bride confederate general, bridge where the march pass by try the march 2 times before and were stop, they for a court order and made the march happen. To push voting riches act.
Operation "Downfall" or the atomic bomb?
In August 6, 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Because of the enormous cost in civilian lives, the use of the bomb remains controversial. Is either losse 800 men at day or detonated the bomb. They ship parts of the bomb, after tasting it on New Mexico. They decided to ship. Part of the Manhattan project.
The Korean War (1950- 53):
In June 1950, the North Korean army invaded the south, hoping to reunify the country under communist control. - American troops did the bulk of the fighting on this first battlefield of the Cold War. North Korea invaded South Korea in a surprise attack and took over Seoul (the capital)| Truman, UN agreed with him to send troops to the South to fight the North Korean forces; would be led by Douglas MacArthur USA help to maintain armistice line, they get attack by china and force to retire.
Soviet Union = "Evil Empire
In foreign policy, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and sponsored the largest military buildup in American history. He proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based system to intercept and destroy enemy missiles. Reagan came into office determined to overturn the "Vietnam syndrome. It collapses, ronald reagan's description of the soviet union because of his fierce anti-communist views and the USSRs history of violation of human rights and aggression.
War in vietnam
Le Duc Tho Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war. 1) Vietnam's desire for freedom from colonial rule 2) U.S. fears of the spread of communism (the domino theory) 3) South Vietnam's failure to comply with Geneva Accords 4) efforts by North Vietnam to reunite the nation under Communist rule 5) U.S. support for the anti-Communist government of South Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution Incident between North Vietnamese Boats and U.S. destroyers that became a gateway to the Vietnam War
The End of the Cold War
It lasted 50 years, November 9, 1989 day that officially ended . Rise of dissident movements in Eastern Europe; Eastern European dissatisfaction with their economies; Arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union
Rosa Parks
It was the first milestone in the Civil Rights Movement. African American who refuse to give up her sit to a white male, civil right leader.
Election of 1960
Kennedy attacked the Eisenhower administration and won the election with help from his television appeal. John f Kennedy vs Richard Nixon, Kennedy wins
MacArthur attacks Inchon:
MacArthur planned attack on village of Inchon. Caught North Koreans by surprise. Attack reinforced his image with the United States. We pushed North Korea back to the 38th parallel was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations. The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels, and led to the recapture of the South Korean capital of Seoul two weeks later.[3] The code name for the operation was Operation Chromite.
American offensive at guadalcanal:
Midway victory allowed american forces to launch the bloody campaigns that one by one drove the japanese from fortified island like guadalcanal and the solomons in the western pacific and brought american troops ever closer to japan. Operation shoestring August 1942-February 1943 marines land with Australian support. Stranded when navy foced to leave Refuse to give up and outfight Japanese Feb. 9, 1943: Japanese evacuate island June, 1944 Guam recaptured. Base for air attacks on Japan. Phillippines: Retaken March 9, 1945-Battle of Leyte Gulf Largest Naval Battle in history 282 ship
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Misiles from Russia installed in Cuba to strike USA, the soviets remove them and USA did remove theirs from turkey , but after 6 months.
NASA (1958)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Formed in 1958 to consolidate America's efforts in space. Prior to this the American army and navy both had separate missile programs.
Nixon and detente
Nixon then went to Moscow, signing the treaties associated with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) This refers to a less tense period during the Cold War as well as President Nixon's more open policy during that period. This period lasted between 1967 and 1979, bring increased trade and cooperation between the US and the Soviets. This era saw the signing of the SALT treaties, lessening the amount of weapons and arms. During the period Nixon visited Russia and Brezhnev visited America for peace talks.
Ford and the Pardon
On September 8, 1974, one month after President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency amid the Watergate scandal, his successor, President Gerald R. Ford, announced his decision to grant Nixon a full pardon for any crimes he may have committed while in office. Takes the presidency after Nixon resigned and then he pardon Nixon form the watergate scandal Election of 1976 Jim carter and Jerald ford. Jim carter wins.
Election of 1984:
Reagan ran for re- election against democrat Walter Mondale. Reagan won 59% of popular vote. Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as his vice pres, She was the first woman candidate; Reagan ran against Walter Mondale , who chose Geraldine Ferraro the 1st woman for VP. Reagan won by a landslide with 525 electoral votes, Reagan won reelection in the second largest electoral victory ever against Walter Mondale. Ford vs regan, regan wins, deban was unhappy that a,Erica was in decline he wanted to make America great and know he could do it. He rescues America from the lost of believe
Ronald Reagan and "reaganomics
Reagan's tax cuts marked a sharp retreat from the principle of progressivity. Supply-side economics assumed that cutting taxes would inspire Americans at all income levels to work harder, since they would keep more of the money they earned.
Tuskegee Airmen:
The 1st African american pilots to fly for the US military during WW II after being denied leadership roles b/c of the color of their skin. The sorted bombers planes and never lost anybody.
Battle of the bulge (1944):
The Germans try to break through the center of the allies' line Large single battle ever fought by the us army. American troops cross the Rhine River and entered the industrial heartland of Germany. Hitler took his own life and shortly afterward soviet forces occupied Berlin. This was the largest battle fought by the Americans. Germans knew they were going to lose so Hitler decided to strike through the Ardennes forest to divide British and Americans, failed and resulted in a Bulge. Allies laid siege to Bastogne. Represented beginning of the end of WWII
Jackie Robinson
The Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 added Jackie Robinson to their team.The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.
Fall of the philippines (1942)
The Japanese forced the Allies to retreat from the Philippines. General MacArthur promised the Filipinos "I shall return" MacArthur to Australia. After months of fierce fighting, the exhausted Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered on April 9, 1942. Japanese forced all of the Bataan prisoners, to march to a prisoner camp more than 60 miles away. Prisoners endured horrible condition. More than 22,000 died on the Bataan Death March. General Mac Arthur promised the Filipinos "I shall return" MacArthur to Australia. Surrender at Corregidor-Philippines: Bataan Death March
Miracle at midway (1942)
The Japanese were put on the defensive end because the Americans sank several aircraft carriers and planes. Japan navy lost. Turning point of the Pacific war, in which Japan attempted to attack Midway but was repelled with heavy losses, proving the advantage offered by aircraft carriers over destroyers.allied code breakers told nimitz that a huge japanese force was heading towards midway. yamato was in command of the japanese fleet. american planes attacked japanese fleet. yamamato withdrew and battle was over.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
These were the three programs to get Americans to the moon in the 1960s. Mercury-one man capsules, mostly short duration trips into space Gemini-two man capsules, longer missions, space ships docking in earth orbit to practice for the moon missions. Finally puts USA ahead of Russia in the Space Race Apollo-sends three man crews to the moon on a massive Saturn 5 rocket (taller than the Statue of Liberty!) Apollo 8 orbits the moon in December 1968. Apollo 11 first mission to land on the moon July 20th 1969. A total of 12 astronauts will walk on the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 missions)
The Space Race
The battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the "best" in exploring space. Rusia send the first rocket to the moon with the dog, USA try's sending a space ship but it fails, the inicial program is mercury 1 man spacecraft . Shortly 15 min, Russians still ahead of USA. The battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the "best" in exploring space.
Iwo Jima (1945):
The island name is iwo jima. This battle between japan and united state and long for over the month.The island was simply 11 miles of volcanic rock. The US wanted it because it was flat, easily accessible, and visible from the sky - it was great for an airstrip/refueling station Hard to capture these volcanic island. The USA fight for 6 weeks. Once they capture their forces are closer to Tokyo. They can attack air fields and do damage over Japan. Is a great life boat.the raising of the flag happen here.
Bataan death march
The war as it is results of significate american/ Fillipino Defeats in battle of bataan and corregidor
The WASP's
This is from the video about the women pilots I showed in class. WASP = Women's Airforce Service Pilots. Woman that fly the planes to
Election of 1948
Truman presented an ambitious civil rights program to Congress. Truman desegregated the armed forces. Tomado dewy vs Truman & Thurmond. Truman wins
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Turning point post war american history. Parks was a southern black woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus. starts to get boycott by parks and Montgomery protestors. The boycott will lasted a year, then the busses will be segregated.
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest foes, and the voyage ended 25 years of separation between the two sides.
Stalemate and MacArthur fired
he was using his influence on Congressmen and people in the united States to operate the was in the way he wanted to run it, as if he was President. Truman was maddened by MacArthur's rudeness when he flew to Wake Island to meet him. MacArthur showed up 45 minutes late and this was a direct afront to President Truman. MacArthur was 70 years old and and Truman thought MacArthur was unwilling to take orders from the president, so he fired him for insubordination.
JFK vs. RMN
jfk did the television debate. JFK wins the presidency
70-50-28
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 the top US tax rate was 70%!!! He pushed for legislation that lowered it to 50% and then later down to 28%. Helped lead to the longest period of peacetime economic growth in US history up to that point.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution
authorizing the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam.
Navajo code talker
brought many american Indian closer to the mainstream of american life. Transmitted messages in their complex native language, which the Japanese could not decipher. Bending bale to keep the messages secret could make the difference between life and death.
Sputnik (1957)
cold war russian is backwards, one satellite is moon. Usa put more money in math and science. Space in first soviet union. Artificial The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
Election of 1976
election between jimmy carter and general ford. Ford win the election. This is the last election where a Democrat won the White House without carrying Illinois. 1976 election-Carter wins not Ford
Executive Order 9066:
exaggerated fears of the Japanese invasion of the west coast and pressured by white who saw an opportunity to gain possession of Japanese- American property, the military persuaded FDR to issue. This order didn't apply to person of the Japanese move living in Hawaii. Because economy couldn't work without Japanese- American labor. This order relocation of all persons of Japanese to move from the west coast.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date. For six months, the United States had made use of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities. US clued for surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman, the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9.
Dien Bien Phu (1954)
french decided that they can quit because they are not able to take vietnam. France can not draw the guerrillas out off the jungle and ask for the USA for atomic bombs and Eisenhower says no. France whit drawls from Vietnam.usa try's to rebuild Vietnam but Vietnam is divided.
Jimmy carter
graduate of US Naval Academy, peanut farmer, former governor of Georgia, narrowly defeated Ford, ran for president as "outsider," was open about his religious convictions, his honesty was appealing. (In class Video) President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He was a peanut farmer not well known, runs vs ford, he likes to smile. He bing usa form bad to worst economy.
Election of 1980
he appealed skillfully to the white backlash. Emphasized states' rights. Riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the country's condition, Reagan swept into the White House. Regan vs Walter Mondale. Regan wins. Ronald Reagan and regonomics the president of the US at the end of the cold war who encouraged Americans to mistrust communists, became president after Jimmy Carter and was once a former actor and governor of California. the economic policies of Ronald Regan; also called supply-side economics. Regan hoped to promote growth and investment by deregulating business, reducing corporate tax rates, and lowering federal tax rates for upper and middle income Americans
Martin Luther King Jr
he hold the first meet in the church for montgomery bus boycott. Freedom writer, civil right leader, king challenge segregation I have a dream famous speech.
