Unit 8

Post WWII economy

posperity b/c federal spending, baby boom, technological developments

Impacts: higher education from G.I. Bill, Sun-belt migration

Challenges to conformity

US foreign policy after WWII

Cold War emerge from US and USSR seeking allies from decolonised countries, the US support any non-communist government

US aid and involvement in Isreal effects

Oil Embargo → oil Crisis

McCarthyism

leads to lerge scale redscare, placing anyone at risk of incarceration. McCarthy claims to have a list of all the communists in US

HUAC

House Un-American Activities Committee (Nixon): monitor suspicious behavior and expose individuals with communist ties

Rosenburgs

alleged Russian Spy providing atomic bomb secrets to USSR, executed b/c of charges of espionage

Vietnam War

Lyndon Johnson lies to country on war in Vietnam, after finding out →violent protests erupt (post Tet offensive and bombing of Cambodia)

Military-Industrial Complex

Eisenhower warns about military spending during peacetime, US becoming only in a military state

Execuative beanch attempt to promote civil rights

Execuative order #9981- desegregate military (TRuman)

Judicial Branch attempt to promote Civil Rights

Brown v. Board- attacks discrimination with Jim Crow Laws, ruling that “seperate but equal” has no place among rightsL

Legislative branch attempt to promote Civil Rights

Civil Rights act of 1964 → outlaw discrimination based on sex, race, religion, and origins

Little Rock 9

people against desegregation threaten black kids going to school. National guard has to protect these kids in the schools

Southern Manifesto

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Women Rights advocation

Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” → challange cult of domesticity

Stonewall Riots

riots occuring after the attack at Stone Wall Bar(gay bar)

Cesar Chavez

grape pickers’ strike and hunger strike

American indian groups to protest rights

Indians of All Tribes IAT and American Indian Movment (AIM)

American Poverty Awareness

Michael HArrington’s “The Other America” - influence LBJ’s Great Society

Liberalism

use government to promote social Wellbeing

Prospects of the Great Soceiety

End Discrimination, Eliminate Poverty (food Stamps,medicaid), education reforms

Supreme Court in 1960s

promote individual freedoms

Griswold v Connecticut

establish “Right to Privacy”

Immigration Act of 1965

reversed Quota systems from 1920s / favored immigrants from Asia and Latin America

Rachel Carron’s “Silent Springs” effect

awareness to environment issues, aid creation of EPA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act