domestic factors affecting usfp

para themes

intro

mccarthyism x2

anti-war movement x2

tet offensive

vietnamisation

race relations x2

outro

mccarthy full name + political status

joseph mccarthy

republican

fear of communism

red scare

date of mccarthy’s list

9 feb 1950

nr of state department officials accused of being communist

205

how many under soviet control in 1944

180 million

how many under soviet control in 1950

800 million

name of committee set up by mccarthy

tydings committee

when was mccarthy’s committee set up

feb 1950

what did mccarthy say about truman

called him ‘soft’ on communism

accused of sharing us info to soviets

alger hiss

sentenced to death, accused of sharing information about atomic bomb to soviets

julius + ethel rosenberg

type of mindset mccarthy installed

‘them vs us’

mccarthyism set tone for…

next 30 years

GS

great society

methods of fighting vietnam

saturation bombing

search and destroy

air and artillery

agent orange

napalm

operation rolling thunder

vietnam became the 1st…

‘living-room war’

teach-in held when

1965

teach-in held where

university of michigan

what were AW protestors labelled

‘draft dodgers’

when was tet offensive

jan - feb 1968

tet offensive was a …

major turning point

my lai massacre when

1968

nr killed in MLM

500+

lbj quote after tet

‘if i’ve lost cronkite, i’ve lost middle america’

lbj approval rate

26%

opposition in tet

vietcong and north vietnamese troops

methods of AW protests

surrounded pentagon

burned draft cards

left country to dodge draft

300k silent protest white house

lbj forced to do what

call partial halt to bombing

start talks with north vietnam

when does nixon take over

1969

nixon’s policy

vietnamisation

détente

how many troops withdrawn from vietnamisation

250k by 1973

silent protest when and how many people

1969

300k

when did us invade cambodia

1970

who did us invade

cambodia

serious incident after cambodia

national guardsmen shoot dead 4 students + 8 others injured at kent state university

how many shot dead at KSU

4

how many injured at KSU

8

how many colleges closed after KSU

500

what college did cambodia incident happen

kent state university

how long does nixon continue talks for after vietnamisation

3 years

us supposed to be what

‘leaders of the free world’

when did truman desegregate army

1948

what was broadcast on TV

tet offensive

MBB

birmingham

KKK

emmett till

why did jfk decide to deal with rr’s

to improve us image abroad

when was cr bill announced and by who

1963 by jfk

when was cr bill implemented and by who

1964 by lbj

who couldn’t dodge the draft

black people

when was mlk’s 1st anti-war speech

1965

when was mlk’s 2nd anti-war speech

1967

mlk 1967 speech quote

‘the great society has been shot down in the battlefields of vietnam’

what did presidents realise

for us to be the leader of the free world + the enemy of communism, everyone needed to be equal at home