Unit 9: Ch. 26, 27, 28
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- Military Industrial Complex
- Eisenhower feared the US military was too powerful.
- GI Bill
- 1944 14.5 bil to veterans for college, training, homes, and to start businesses.
- Bretton Woods Agreement
- created: International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT- solidified US internat'l trade).
- Barry Goldwater
- CONSERVATISM: launched modern conservative movement in politics. Transformed Repubs from East to South and West
- Dynamic Conservatism
- Eisenhower: bi-partisan: reduce taxes, reduce gov't, raise wages, entend welfare programs.
- George Kennan
- wrote "long telegram": US must contain Soviet expansionism/block Soviet aggression.
- Truman Doctrine
- US must support free people everywhere. 400 mil to Turkey and Greece to resist communism.
- Peace Corps
- JFK's group of volunteers who helped third world nations.
- Voting Rights Act
- 1965: invalidated use of any device/test to deny the vote for blacks.
- New Frontier
- JFK's social/economic program
- Berlin
- 1948 Stalin blockaded all routes through here
- John Foster Dulles
- Sec. of State under Eisenhower. "Instant massive retaliation" against Soviets. "brinkmanship".
- Michael Harrington
- wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States
- Domino Theory
- Eisenhower's theory. If Vietnam fell to communism, other Asian countries would fall too.
- Chiang Kai-Shek
- Nationalist government supported by US in China. Fell to communism.
- NSC-68
- secret report called for US military buildup
- Betty Friedan
- wrote The Feminine Mystique: women encouraged to work outside of home.
- Southern Manifesto
- denounced Brown decision as an abuse of judicial power.
- Divided Korea at which parallel after Japan's defeat in WWII.
- 38th
- Republican congress fought with Truman and defeated bills to raise the min. wage.
- 80th Congress
- Taft Hartley Bill
- "slave labor bill" outlawed boycots, union officials to sign loyalty oaths. WEAKENED UNIONS
- beatniks
- noncomformist writers against mid-class society. Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
- To Secure These Rights
- Truman's Pres. Committee on Civil Rights created this report. Dramatized the inequities of life in Jim Crow America. Called for fed laws against lynching, the poll tax etc.
- Vietnam divided at this parallel after France's defeat Dienbienphu.
- 17th
- "Dixiecrats"
- States' Rights Democratic Party. Wanted to deny Truman reelection/preserve SEGREGATION.
- Caesar Chavez
- Latino leader. boycotts for farmers. Combined religion, labor militancy, and Mexican heritage.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Less scolding, more coddling.