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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how many troops withdrawn from vietnamisation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