Textbook Trajectory Quiz

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Great depression

terrifs/taxes led to less trading of items

Post War Divisions

USSR suffered military and civilian casualties during WWII

Creation of the UN

NATO founded

Chinese communist Revolution

Warsaw Pact, soviet defense treaty

Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis

The bomb

a nuclear threat that kept the world awake

influenced the space race

Space Race

USSR went into space 7 times before the first US successful moon landing

Camelot

JFK as Televised president, Democrat, seen as friend to civil rights, said he’d outlaw segregation through Civil Rights Act

Beatlemania

supported civil rights movement, black influence, Anti-establishment, non violence, youth and women

Classical Civil Rights Movement

church and youth leadership, Brown v Board, Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, civil/housing rights act, Malcolm X and MLK Jr. Murdered, Black Panther Party

Lyndon B Johnson

His administration aimed to be second coming of New Deal, sworn in after JFk assassination

Vietnam and US War

A decolonial conflict turned proxy-war presides over by JFK and escalated by LB Johnson

civil rights leaders adopted an anti-war stance and combined this activism with their own work on race and class-based social justice

Political Violence

JFK assassinated while campaigning for reelection and Civil Rights

Malcolm X assassinated preceding a pan-Africanist meeting

MLK Jr. assassinated during a strike for black sanitation workers

Robert F kennedy assassinated while campaigning for president

Global Decolonization

Indian Independence Act

all british colonies were independent

Revolutions and regime changes abounded in Africa, SE asia, Caribbean, south america

Social turn into segregation

13-15th amendement outlawing slavery

black codes and KKK

seperate but equal, P v F

Jim crow, racial terror

New Deal

Hoover felt FDR’s policies were communistic and anti american individualism

fireside chats

Glass-Banking Act instituted FDIC

indian reorganization act

second bill of rights

fdr said citizens have right to employment, housing, medical care, education, and social security

1940s Civil Rights Unionsim

race and class as intertwined issues, NAACP, anti-american, pro-communism

Proxy Wars

The Cold War” was a battle of US and Soviet power, fought on foreign soil

presidents during 1950-1970 wanted to stop Soviet imperialism, in effort to promote US imperialism

World War II

Pearl Harbor signalled entry of US Troops, “american island”

Holocaust

US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

GI Bill promises mortgage assistance and education benefits

History of Labor 1870-1941

Organized labor

New technologies

time clock, automobiles, and radio

Labor and union conflict

pro-organized labor sentiments with 8-hour movement

Anti-union backlash with the Haymarket riot

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

1911

WWI and WWII

established US as europes banker, accelerated middle-class women’s particpation

Montgomery Alabama

 Left and up of Florida, Montgomery is in the lower half, near the middle line, towards the right of the state.

Chicago Illinois

to the right and bottom of Wisconsin, the “shore line” in between, BEFORE Michigan

Washington DC

to the left of Delaware, which is the second bump on the right of the east coast

Los Angeles CA

In equal line with the mid line of Arizona, above the culf of CA, and on the far left of the state

Vietnam

to the left of the pacific ocean, bottom, left of australia

China

 the rightmost section, above Vietnam, and to below and right of Russia, the main section on top.