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The Eisenhower date Korean Armistice 1 952 Eisenhower vaulted Korea shortly after agreeable the presidency waited 7 months before resorting to nuclear warfarefare Koreans compromised until 38th twin Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954 McCarthy attacked the Army as Communist Army attacked him on television for 35 sidereal days McCarthy downfall Jim Crow Segregated blacks from dusters Emmett Till 14 class old black who vacati whizzd in Mississippi, allegedly whistled at a white woman (Carolyn Bryant was subsequently beaten, abused, and murdered then tied to a cotton fiber glen and thrown Into a river Montgomery Bus BoycottAfter Rosa Parks is arrested, take out rallies the black community to do this. This seriously hurt the bus companies. This lasted to a greater extent than a year, and ended in 56 when the SC declared single out buses unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education 1951 (SC) Marshall argues, wins this one. Unanimous vote chthonic the Earl warren court that separate b ut equal is a irrational doctrine.Little Rock Central High School 1957 9 black students move to go to domesticate needed to be defended by federal official parade Southern Christian Leadership Conference MILK and n premature degree centigrade other black ministers form this organization in 1957 to encourage peaceable protest to provoke segregationists and win concord from moderate southern whites.Although it got to a greater extent blacks to support the movement, it failed to spark controersy or get white savvy Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Created by sit-ins lack of patience resulted in their downfall Interstate Highway comprise of 1 956 1 956 more(prenominal) effective Jobs and benefits (trucking, gasoline, automobile) deprived passenger trains, decreased oxygenate quality, robbed downtowns of business cod to shopping outlets First Secretary of the Soviet Union- premier- was in attempts to conduct towards conciliation with Eisenhower but 13-2 scandal made such attempts void geneva Conference After Vietnam fell to Nationalists split Vietnam at the 17th reduplicate elections 2 years later to Join them 1955 Eisenhower & Khrushchev Open Skies Khrushchev thought it was an the Statesn ply for Dulles and rejected the idea Battle of Dine Been PH 1954 French corned Indochina French asked for American support America non involved Warsaw Pact 1955 Soviet Union reacted to Antas addition of westside Germany, protecting its Communist satellites Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 960 control petroleum exports controlled Western countries Sputnik 1957 Soviets Part I small, PART II dog displaying Soviet superiority provided Communism with credential maybe intercontinental ballistic missiles created missile gap, NASA, and ENDED National Defense and Education Act 1958 increase procreation to compete with the Soviets million in form of scholarships U-2 Spy plane mishap The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over th e Soviet Union. The U. S. Denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was squeeze to when the U. S. S. R. Reduced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to corroborate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the low temperature War and was a great embarrassment for the United States.Fidel Castro usurped power from Batista politics by guerilla warfare, US unable to execute effective coup, became armed forces dictator Betty Friedman Feminists who published the Feminine Mystique 1963 modern womens honests movement to break forth from suburban housewife life and to deal with struggles due to sexism United States leaning singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) Chapter 39 The Stormy Sixties John F. Kennedy The thirty-fifth United States President who represented the state of Massachusetts in the U. S. family unit of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U. S. Senate from 1953 until 1961.Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin protect, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. New Frontier The exhort program advocated by JEFF in the 1960 election. He promised to revivalist the stagnant providence and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and well-mannered rights. Berlin Wall In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high roadblock to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the period of time of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989. Massive Retaliation Dulles nuclear bombs Flexible Response the buildup of received troops and weapons to allow a nation to campaign a confine war without using nuclear weapons Bay of Pigs In April 1961, a convention of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U. S. Central Intelligence result landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to trim down Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. Cuban Missile Crisis the 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba Freedom Riders Both black and white Americans that took to horseback riding normal transportation in the deep south to demand that the Boonton v. Virginia finding of fact be upheld. This resulted in many busses being attacked held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress.Martin Luther King gave his famous l allow a dream Speech. 250,000 good deal attended the rally Civil Rights Act of 1964 This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government activity the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and popular places. large order President Johnson call ed his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. War on Poverty Waged by Johnnys Great Society programs that presented a classic liberal platform. Civil and voting rights acts Public school funding?when the rich moved to the suburbs all the poverty and squalor remained in the cities, destroying the tax base which of course had negative effects on public education Medicare and Medicaid National endowment for arts and humanities (PBS) Clean air and water quality acts Endangered species preservation act (1966) Affirmative fill policies of the government aimed at increasing access to Jobs, schooling, and opportunities to people previously discriminated against cook vs.. Board of Regents Gulf of Tontine Resolution Congress gave up its war making powers to the President in this resolution which Johnson himself called Grandmas night shir t, a machine to cover everything. Medicare -available to all elderly Americans regardless of need -form of federal social welfare assistance -assisted medical community because the fed paved all fees Medicaid broad federal medical assistance to welfare recipients and other indigent people of all ages Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes and a broad range of other lodgment related transactions Passed when LB was president, outlawed poll taxes. Freedom Summer 1964 Blacks and whites departure to polling places to ensure that the law is being enforced and blacks do have the right to vote. This resulted in much violence in the south including murders, battery, etc. Malcolm X spread ideas of black nationalism. Disagreed w/ both the tactics and goals of the early civil rights movement. Minister of the nation of SIAM. Rejected his original nurture because it was his familys slave name Systoles Carmichael Founder of Black Power Black Pow er the belief that blacks should fight back if attacked. T urged blacks to achieve economic independence by scratch and supporting their own business. Domino Theory the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations go away also come under Communist control opposed the Vietnam War and believed the United States should withdraw its forces from Vietnam. Hawks supported U. S. Involvement in the Vietnam War and believed America should increase military force to win the war.Et Offensive Et the first day of the Vietnamese New Year -communist forces launched an enormous attack on American strongholds through- UT Vietnam -one of the first televised battles, revealed brutality of war, great effect on election of 1968 -Walter Coronate -Democrats Criticizing Johnson Chicago Democratic Convention 1968 -Tons of protesting and violence -Humphrey received nomination Counterculture Drugs are generally harmless social relaxants and as for sex, if it fee ls good, do it. Students for a Democratic Society Student group opposed to militarism and racism called for participatory democracy. George Wallace Once governor of Alabama, a segregationist that ran as the candidate of the American Independent Party in 1968 and won five states in the South.