Cold war and beyond

Truman Doctrine

• 1940s

• U.S. provides economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism

Marshall Plan

• 1940s

• Containment policy

• Gave money to western European countries and to influence them in favor of the U.S.

Brown V. Board of education

• 1950s

• Segregated schools are unconstitutional and violate 14th amendment

• Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson

• Example of a Warren Court which reflected Progressive ideas

White flight migrant wave

• Post WWII

• White Americans move out of cities into the suburbs

  • Not minorities because of discrimination

    • Redlining: Marked neighborhoods with immigrants or black people and denied loans and insurance to them

• Causes

  • GI Bill of Rights: higher access to education and low interest home loans

Counterculture

• 1960s

• Young people fought against conformity

  • Civil rights

  • Vietnam war protesting

LBJ’s Great Society

• 1960s

• War on Poverty

  • Food Stamp act of 1964

• Promote equality

  • Civil rights act of 1964: Outlaws segregation at jobs based on race

  • Voting rights act of 1965: Removes barriers for voting in south for black people

  • Immigration act of 1965: Abolishes old immigration quotas

• Improve healthcare

  • Medicare and Medicaid