APUSH Period 8

  • WWII is Over   * The United States is Doing Fine     * ⅔ of the world’s gold     * 50% of global manufacturing     * 36% of world GDP     * 405,000 dead     * Cities in great shape
  • Post War U.S.S.R   * 40 million dead   * Demolished cities   * ¼ of capital resources destroyed   * Devastated economy
  • Joseph Stalin   * General Secretary of the Community Party     * 1922-1953   * “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic”
  • United Nations   * Founded in 1945   * Permanent Members of the Security Council   * United States   * Great Britain   * Soviet Union   * France   * China
  • The “Iron Curtain”   * Ideological Wall that separated Community East Europe from Capitalist Western Europe
  • Marshall Plan   * Economic assistance to Europe   * European New Deal   * Bribing them to stay out of communism
  • Space Race   * 1957     * Sputnik launched by USSR   * First satellite to be placed into orbit   * PANIC     * Space Race   * Emphasis on math and science education
  • Coups and Proxy Wars   * Proxy Wars     * Korea       * 1950     * Afghanistan       * 1979     * Syria       * 2012-present   * Coup     * Iran       * 1953     * Guatemala       * 1954     * Chile       * 1970     * Panama     * Honduras
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization   * NATO   * Established 1949   * Collective security pact     * Western Europe     * North America   * Attack on any member nation treated as an attack on all member nations
  • Warsaw Pact   * Established 1955   * Collective defense of USSR and Eastern Europe
  • Chinese Revolution   * 1949   * Communists defeat nationalists in Civil War     * Communists will have two seats on Security Council   * Taiwan     * Nationalists establish government here       * Sovereignty controversy
  • Social Pressures for Women   * Early marriage   * Childbearing   * Stay-at-home motherhood   * Nuclear family
  • Suburbia   * G.I. bill   * Mass-produced affordable home     * Ex: Levittown   * Great migration   * “White flight”
  • Berlin Wall   * 1961   * East Germans begin construction of the Berlin Wall   * Separated East and West Berlin   * Encircled West Berlin   * Symbolic Significance
  • Cuban Revolution   * 1959   * Fidel Castro’s rebels take control of the Cuban government, creating a communist state 90 miles off the coast of the U.S.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev   * 1985-1991   * Glasnost     * Openness     * Censorship relaxed     * Easy to see how messed up everything was   * Perestroika     * Reconstruction     * Combat corruption
  • Fall of the Soviet Union   * 1991   * Boris Yeltsin, elected President of the Russian Federation
  • Maastricht Treaty   * 1992   * Established the European Union
  • Brown v. Board of Education   * Declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional   * Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson     * 1896
  • Civil Rights Movement   * De Jure Segregation     * “By law”     * “Whites-only”     * Public transit segregation     * Housing segregation     * Store and hotel segregation     * Job discrimination     * Poll taxes     * Literacy tests   * De Facto Segregation     * “By default or Custom”     * Housing discrimination     * Job discrimination     * Voting discrimination     * Racial Wealth Gap     * Deindustrialization     * White flight     * School inequalities     * War on drugs     * Over and under policing     * Criminal justice inequalities
  • Civil Rights Movement Expands   * Latinos     * Cesar Chavez     * Dolores Huerta   * American Indian Movement     * AIM   * Asian Americans     * JACL   * LBGT Americans   * Stonewall Riots   * Feminist and women’s rights   * SCOTUS Cases     * Roe v. Wade     * Engel v. Vitale     * Miranda v. Arizona
  • Youth Culture of the 1960s   * Anti-war protests     * Kent State   * Students for a Democratic Society   * Free Speech Movement   * Counterculture and Hippies   * Sexual Revolution
  • LBJ and The Great Society   * Tackling poverty and racial injustice   * Liberalism’s high point   * Ex:     * Medicare     * Medicaid     * Head Start     * Federal Education money     * Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965     * Nation Endowment for the Arts     * National Endowment for the Humanities   * Opposed by Conservatives   * Compared to FDR’s New Deal   * Derailed by Vietnam
  • 1970s Presidents   * Nixon     * 1969-1974   * Ford     * 1974-1977   * Carter     * 1997-1981
  • 1970s Economy   * Stagflation   * Oil Crisis   * Deindustrialization   * Stagnant Wages

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