Term Four I.D.S

Dixiecrats

A.k.a. as states rights Democratic Party. Wanted to be a more conservative to stop integration. Was a sub party of the Democrats.

Henry Wallace

Was part of launching a new progressive party. Wallace ran for president. Was vice president for FDR.

Employment act of 1946

Committed the federal government to ensure economic growth. Also establish the council of economic advisors to confer with the president to keep employment rates, high production, and purchase power. Congress granted the goal of full employment, enhanced executive powers.

Service men's readjustment act of 1944

HAASGI bill. Provided returning World War II veterans with benefits like education funding, unemployment insurance. Also had low interest loans for home and businesses. Wanted a good transaction back into life.

Algar Hiss; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's

Was a communist that was suspected of anti-loyalty. Helped get Soviet union research of the atomic bomb. Was put in jail.

House and Americans activities committee

Was originally called the house committee on un-American activities.

Federal employee loyalty program

It's purpose was to root out loyal people in the government. Authorized the AG to prepare a list of subversive organizations and made association grounds for dismissal.

Fair deal

Included civil rights national healthcare legislation, and federal aid to education. Counted on continuous economic growth. Was an extension of the new deal. Did not succeed.

NSC-68

Was the top secret report of the US national security council. Advocated for a massive buildup of US military and economic power to contain communism.

Containment policy

When did to contain communism. Main goal was to keep communism where it was instead of trying to completely abolish it.

Marshall plan

Called after the Secretary of State. Was a huge aid to Europe. Became another weapon against the communism. Said that the US government would have see all the government spending. Was like a gift card. Nuclear reaction 80 years ago atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, those energy created.

Truman doctrine

Wanted to focus on containing communism. Pictured the matter as a global struggle. US would support all free people everywhere.

NATO

Stands for Northern Atlantic Treaty organization. Said that an attack on one was considered an attack on all. Meant to prevent a world war three.

George Kennan

Was the US ambassador to America. Sent a letter to Truman saying what to do about communism. Was not listened to. Was considered the most knowledgeable about communism.

Joseph R McCarthy

Was desperate for an issue to run for reelection. Said that 250 members of the state department or communists. Was a person that questioned people in court to pressure them into saying that they were communists. Was not very nice in court. After the US Army court trials were put on television was quickly shut down by the American people. Was not supported after the American people saw how brutal he was.

Interstate Highway act

Signed into law under Eisenhower in June 1956. Was the start of a massive system to build roads to connect the US better.

John Foster Dulls

Was the Secretary of State on Eisenhower. Was also a senator for New York in 1949. Resigned from Secretary of State in 1958. Was republican.

Southern manifesto

Was signed by More Than 100 members of Congress announcing Brown. Signed in 1956. No blocks that you went to school in a desegregated school in the deep south feuded in the upper south.

Orval Faubus

Was Arkansas's governor. Try to block blacks from entering into a desegregated high school. Order National Guard to block them from entering. Order to stop barring entrance. Eventually a mob stopped the group train and enter the school.

Jack Kerouac

A key author of the Beat movement whose best selling novel, On the Road helped define the movement with it's featured frenzied prose and plotless ramblings.

Alan Ginsburg

Wrote the house in 1956. Was part of the beats movement. Romanticized society outcast. Was scarred by mass media.

Sputnik

Was the first satellite to reach space and stay there. Launched by the USSR. America feared that a missile would be launched into the country. Started the space race with USSR ahead.

Rosa Parks

Was a officer in the Montgomery NAACP. Refuse to give up proceed to a white man. Triggered a bus boycott.

Eisenhower doctrine

Middle eastern countries could request American consistence if it was being threatened by aggression.

Domino theory

Where America and democratic countries, fear that if one country felt communist at the rest of the region would fall to communism.

Civil rights act of 1957 and 1960

Focused on protecting voting rights. Allowed for federal oversight. Laid the groundwork for the 1964 civil rights act.

Beats

Nonconformist riders. Express more fundamental revolt to get middle class. Romanticized Americans outcast. Parents did not like this.

Earl Warren

Was the chief Justice appointed by President Eisenhower. Reversed the separate but equal. Was part of the brown V Board of Education of Topeka. Allowed more protections for blacks with this ruling. It was not liked by Eisenhower after this.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Was the 27-year-old when elected to be in charge of the Montgomery independent agency. Led the first fight for equal rights. Focused on nonviolent. Very powerful.

Benjamin Spock

Sold a baby book for mothers. It was the second two best selling book 2nd to the Bible in 1946. Rich mothers to devote their time with their kids.

Cesar Chavez

Born on an Arizona farm. Grew up a migrant farm worker. Join the US Navy in World War II. Dedicated himself to improve working conditions for the mostly American farm laborers in California. Coworkers on farms to join unions to get better pay.

Barry Goldwater

Was a Arizona senator was against Johnson. Oppose big government deficit spending road building liberalism and social welfare. Ran for president in 1964. Presidency unified conservatives.

Alliance for progress; peace corpse

Pledge to provide $20 billion with grants to Latin Americans, and American countries to provide additional $80 billion in investments. Was the biggest US aid program to aid the developing world up to that point.

Ngo Dinh Diem

Installed by the CIA. CIA help eliminate political opponents and block the election to reunify Vietnam. Possibly 80% would've voted for a communist leader if it was available.

Congress of radical equality

Believe that the ballot box held the key power for southern blacks. Help organize the Mississippi freedom summer project of 1964 period was created because the civil rights act of 1964 did not addressed the right to vote.

Black Panthers

Was the response to police brutality to blacks. Was forcing radical equality through a gun. Organized along semi military lines. Helped many groups. I hoped shape other protests.

Mississippi freedom summer project

Focused the state most hostile to black rights. Freedom schools taught black history and emphasize African-Americans self-worth. Endured fire, bombing, black churches, and civil rights to fight for their cause.

Great society

When did it end poverty. Would be a place where equal rights and school could enrich their minds. Where they could connect with nature. Where more people would focus on the quality of their product instead of the quantity. Horrified, the conservatives.

Cuban missile crisis

Escalated arms race. Convincing both sides of the need for nuclear boundaries. Started in 1962 with the bay of pigs kick certain. Created the hotline between the US and Soviet Union.

Bay of pigs

Anti-communist people were trained in military forms by the CAA and landed in the bay of pigs to inspire or revolt against Castro. Purpose was to create chaos that Castro could not handle. Castro had superior forces. US did not want to be seen in participating in this.

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Was a blank check for Johnson to spend money on Vietnam. Covered everything that the military would need to do to win the war.

Kerner Commission

Was formally known as the national advisory commission. Was established by President Johnson to investigate the civil unrest in major cities. Reported that the country was moving towards two cities, one white, and one black.

National organization for women

Civil rights group for women. Labor to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society. Filed lawsuits against discrimination and pushed for equal opportunity. Was the leading feminist group.

Betty Friedman

Was a leading woman's activist. Wrote the feminine book. Talked about how women finding him fulfillment outside of traditional roles.

Malcolm X

Was a drug addict and street hustler. Converted to the nation of Islam. Urge African-Americans to separate themselves from the white devil. Said to take pride and African roots and blackness.