History test 4 App State

Explain the Truman Doctrine.

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

Who was largely responsible for kindling the ethnic pride and solidarity of Mexican-Americans in the 1960s?

Cesar Chavez

How did the US respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin.

Explain the Taft-Hartley Act

Also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947, it made illegal the closed shop, but continued to permit the creation of union shops. Also empowered the president to call for a ten-week "cooling off" period before a strike by issuing an injunction against any work stoppage that endangered national safety or health.

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

An undistinguished, first term Republican senator from Wisconsin, who in February in 1950, in the midst of a speech in Wheeling, WV, he lifted up a sheet of paper and claimed to "hold in my hand" a list of 205 known communists currently working in the American State Dept. No person of comparable stature had ever made so bold a charge against the federal government.

Explain NOWs agenda

Equal rights for women

What was Executive Order 9981?

Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948) ... On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military.

What were the objectives of the Freedom Rides organized by CORE?

During the spring of 1961, student activists launched them to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

What was the purpose of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project?

Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South.

Whom did Martin Luther King model his program of civil disobedience after?

Henry David Thoreau

What organization helped some Native American tribes win lost rights and property?

NCIO- National Council on Indian Opportunity

Why did many middle-class parents object to rock'n'roll?

People thought it would lead to teenage delinquency and immorality

What was the Marshall Plan?

Secretary of State, George C. Marshall's plan to provide economic assistance to all European nations that would join in drafting a program for recovery. Sixteen western nations participated.

Describe the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott.

Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

The southern states responded with the Southern Manifesto which stated what?

The Declaration of Constitutional Principles was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.

What was the Interstate Highway Act?

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.

Describe Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Explain the impact of the Immigration Act of 1965

The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

What did the National Security Act of 1947 establish?

This reshaped the nation's major military and diplomatic institutions, with a Department of Defense and A National Security Council, which would operate out of the White House and would govern foreign and military policy.

What music festival came to symbolize the 1960s counterculture?

Woodstock

Who were the Beats?

a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s

Describe what happened in the Korean War.

began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.

Describe Secretary of State John Dulles' foreign policy strategy.

going to the brink of war to halt the Soviets' efforts to extend their territory any further

Explain Brown v Board of Education, (1952).

landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

How did the GI Bill help returning veterans?

provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.

What was the cause of the Second Red Scare?

refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.