period 8

Cold War

Power struggle between capitalism and communism US and Soviet Union

Truman’s foreign policy

Truman doctrine and containment of communism formed NATO

Berlin crisis

Germany divided into 4 sectors after ww2 three allies merged sectors causing soviets to created blockade called the Berlin Wall Truman ordered airlifts to give food to people trapped

McCarthyism

Truman orders investigations of federal employees and if people have potential association with communists they r dismissed with no hearing

Joseph McCarthy

Led campaign accusing thousands of communism and ruining their lives, until he accused the army and made him look foolish ending McCarthyism

square deal

Roosevelt promises to regulate business and restore competition

Second new deal

Roosevelt addressed shortcoming of first nd and conservation

Fair deal

Truman extends new deal and provisions for ww2 veteran reintegration into society

Truman doctrine

US provides support to countries resisting communism, start of America active in global affairs

Korean War

North Korea invaded south US intervenes bc on UN and China enters war truman decides against war with China leading to him losing reelection

Brown v board of education

Civil rights ruled separate but equal schools are unequal

Montgomery bus boycott

Introduced mlk jr and the integration of city buses

Eisenhower Cold War policy

Containment, threat of nuclear attacks from soviets and America mutually assured destruction prevents use of nuclear weapons

Sputnik

Soviets launched first artificial satellite intimating space race

Bay of pigs invasion

Us failed attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro

Cuban missile crisis

US discover Soviet missiles in Cuba leading to confrontation and the brink of nuclear war

Civil rights act of 1964

Prohibited discrimination based on race religion or sex and ended segregation in public

Voting rights act

Eliminate literacy test and poll taxes in voting

Great society

Lyndon b Johnson program aimed to rid poverty and racial injustice, Medicare and education reforms

Watergate scandal

Burglars linked to Nixon reelection campaign broke into dnc offices to steal documents for Nixon reelection