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