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Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of capital
Communism
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
Country that fell to communism in 1949
China
Area where the Soviet Union expanded after 1945
Eastern Europe
Country split between the Soviet Union and the West
Germany
Type of weapon developed by the Soviet Union in 1949
Atomic bomb
City that was cut off by Stalin in 1948
Berlin
Plan introduced by the president to support Western Europe
Truman Doctrine
Organisation formed in 1949 to stop the spread of communism
NATO
HUAC
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda
Federal Loyalty Review Board
during second red scare, truman made this committee to investigate members of government and dismiss those who were disloyal to u.s. government
Hollywood Ten
Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood
Rosenbergs
Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's
Alger Hiss
A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.
FBI
Used to investigate communists in the state department
McCarran Act
required all communist organizations to register with the government and to provide lists of members
Joseph McCarthy
1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence
Senator Tydings
Created a committee to prove McCarthy was fraud but was not elected again because McCarthy called him a communist after he stood up against McCarthy's false claims
Group investigated by McCarthy that led to his downfall
Army
Ed Murrow
TV show that investigated and questioned McCarthy's claims
Plessy v. Ferguson
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC
(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination
MIA
Mississippi Improvement Association
Deep south
Area of the USA synonymous with racism and segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Emmett Till
Murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman by her husband and his friends. They kidnapped him and brutally killed him. his death led to the American Civil Rights movement.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Little Rock Nine
A group of students who were enrolled in a white high school on the basis of being black
Orval Faubus
Arkansas governor who called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School under federal court order.
Earl Warren
Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.
Thurgood Marshall
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist group, experienced a revival after Brown Vs Board
BOYCOTT
refuse to buy
Browder v. Gayle
(1956) Ended segregation in the public transportation system after the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama)
Sit ins
protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served
Greensboro
Site of the first lunch counter sit ins
Open casket
Emmett Till had one of these, shocked the country
National guard
Deployed by Eisenhower to resolve Little Rock
70 per cent
Amount of bus users in Montgomery who were African American
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1957 Civil Rights Act
provided federal protection for blacks who wished to register to vote
Filibuster
Tactic used by dixiecrats to delay the 1957 Civil Rights Act
Dixiecrats
southern Democrats who opposed civil rights. They caused a split in the Democratic party.
James Meredith
The first African American student at the University of Mississippi.
Freedom Riders
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
Anniston fire bombing
Attack on freedom riders in 1961
Ross Barnett
Governor of Mississippi who tried to prevent James Meredith from entering Ole Miss, was extremely racist
Bull Connor
Police official of Birmingham, AL. Was a member of the KKK and supported racial segregation.
Birmingham
Alabama city against equal rights; peaceful marches in 1963 were broken up brutally by city police.
Fire hoses and police dogs
Used against protestors in Birmingham in 1963
Kennedy
Introduced civil rights bill and helped James Meredith get into Ole Mis
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
Selma March
Protest to register African American voters in the South, violence against protesters
Freedom Summer
1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
Freedom summer murders
Murder of group of activists who tried to set help register voters
March on Washington
held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally
Malcolm X
Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s
Nation of islam
A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans
Elijah Muhammad
Leader of the Nation of Islam
Stokely Carmichael
Coined the phrase "black power" and led SNCC away from a nonviolent approach.
1968 Olympic Protest
Protest by two African American athletes who showed the black power salute
Black panthers
a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites. Used armed groups to defend black communities against police brutality
Ten Point Program
A set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party's ideals and ways of operation, a "combination of a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence."
Watts Riots
week-long violence in LA after white cop struck black bystander during a traffic arrest
Long Hot Summer (1967)
race riots similar to Watts in most major US cities
Kerner Report
This commission, chaired by Otto Kerner, decided that the race riots were due to the formation of two different American cultures: inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.
Affirmative Action
Policy encouraged by Johnson to give African Americans more chance to get a higher education
Bussing
transportation of students to school in an attempt to reduce racial segregation
Reasons for the emergence of the student movement
Media, Disappointment with post war USA, emergence of teenager, new technology
foreign policy aims of the student movement
End the war in Vietnam, nuclear disarmament
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society
Methods of SDS
Sit ins and rallies
Free Speech Movement
Movement protesting policies instituted by the University of California at Berkeley that restricted free speech.
Mario Savio
Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California (at Berkeley)
Hey hey LBJ
"how many kids did you kill today?"
Draft
A system of required military service that many protested about in the anti Vietnam protests
Anti war musicians
Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix
Kent State Massacre
Four killed, nine wounded by Ohio National Guard during protest of U.S. invasion of Cambodia
Nixon
Promised to end the war in Vietnam, ordered the Kent State shooting
Woodstock
3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s. Nearly half a million attended.
1969 march on washington
500,000 protest the Vietnam war
Hippy Movement
Movement of people that valued freedom, nature, peace, sharing, and spirituality.
Impact of anti war protests
Johnson did not run for reelection, Nixon introduced Vietnamization
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