Unit 8

posperity b/c federal spending, baby boom, technological developments

Impacts: higher education from G.I. Bill, Sun-belt migration

Challenges to conformity

Cold War emerge from US and USSR seeking allies from decolonised countries, the US support any non-communist government

Oil Embargo → oil Crisis

leads to lerge scale redscare, placing anyone at risk of incarceration. McCarthy claims to have a list of all the communists in US

House Un-American Activities Committee (Nixon): monitor suspicious behavior and expose individuals with communist ties

alleged Russian Spy providing atomic bomb secrets to USSR, executed b/c of charges of espionage

Lyndon Johnson lies to country on war in Vietnam, after finding out →violent protests erupt (post Tet offensive and bombing of Cambodia)

Eisenhower warns about military spending during peacetime, US becoming only in a military state

Execuative order #9981- desegregate military (TRuman)

Brown v. Board- attacks discrimination with Jim Crow Laws, ruling that “seperate but equal” has no place among rightsL

Civil Rights act of 1964 → outlaw discrimination based on sex, race, religion, and origins

people against desegregation threaten black kids going to school. National guard has to protect these kids in the schools

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Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” → challange cult of domesticity

riots occuring after the attack at Stone Wall Bar(gay bar)

grape pickers’ strike and hunger strike

Indians of All Tribes IAT and American Indian Movment (AIM)

Michael HArrington’s “The Other America” - influence LBJ’s Great Society

use government to promote social Wellbeing

End Discrimination, Eliminate Poverty (food Stamps,medicaid), education reforms

promote individual freedoms

establish “Right to Privacy”

reversed Quota systems from 1920s / favored immigrants from Asia and Latin America

awareness to environment issues, aid creation of EPA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act