APUSH Unit Eight

US Cold War policy of preventing the spread of Communism through military force

Showed horror of the Vietnam War

Riots over the suspected police abuse of a Black man

Book that sparked second-wave feminism in the US

Principal channel of student commitment in the United States civil rights movement

Lyndon B Johnson’s platform; aimed to eliminate racial injustice and poverty

Part of the Great Society; gave preschool children from families with low income a comprehensive program to help meet their needs

Revealed that the US had expanded its bombing of Southeast Asia, which hadn’t been reported by the media; led to the credibility gap

Promise to give aid to any country threatened by Communism

Aid for European countries in an attempt to help them rebuild; helps them resist Communism

Military alliance to resist Communist aggressions

USSR equivalent of NATO

Centralized the department of defense, created the CIA, etc

Made it more difficult to go on strike; had union members swear they were not Communists

Executive order that made federal employees swear that were not fascists or communists; allowed investigations

Searched for Communists in culture

Rosenburgs accused of stealing nuclear bomb plans for the USSR; executed

Government official who was thought to be a Communist, although convicted on perjury; begged the question of how many high level officials are Communists?

Veterans could go to college for free and take out low interest loans

Created highways which allowed for the suburbs to thrive

Provided training, low interest loans, and other benefits to veterans

Banned segregation in the military

Collected and studied information on discrimination

Overturned Plessy v Ferguson; desegregated schools

Organized peace between Israel and Egypt

Allowed Middle Eastern countries could request aid if they were threatened by armed aggression

Southeast treaty to defend against Communism

Programs like literacy and vocational training was provided for impoverished Americas; limited effect due to all the money going to the Vietnam War

Federally funded health insurance for the olds

Federally funded health insurance for those in poverty

Made discrimination based on race or religion illegal

Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth by outlawing literacy tests and poll taxes

Abolished poll taxes

States couldn’t prevent abortion

Gave greater control to Natives over laws, education, and policing

Oversees polluters and regulates industries such as pesticides manufacturing

Controlled air pollution

Set aside federal lands from commercial economic development

Declared minority quotas were unconstitutional

A conflict between the US and USSR where neither engaged in open warfare

The USSR blocked supply lines in order to try to absorb Western Berlin

US flew in supplies to East Berlin; success

Part of Containment; North Korea invaded South Korea

Ah! Communism

Us tries to train Cuban exiles to overthrow the government; big fail

Stemmed from the Gulf of Tonkin Incident; a blank check to use military power to protect US interests (1955)

Rosa Parks incited this & rise of MLK

 Would sit at White only counters and demand to be served

200,000 gathered at the Lincoln monument to protest against civil rights

Natives had a treaty with the government that said they got abandoned land; Alcatraz was abandoned → stayed 19 months → Self-Determination Act

Gathering in a gay bar (illegal) → resistance → marches and stuff

Students were protesting the Vietnam War but there was some looting → National Guard sent → protesters throw rocks → National Guard opens fire

Nuclear plant partially melted down and released radioactive stuffs → scared of nuclear

Nixon’s reelection committee was caught breaking into the Watergate hotel where they attempted to bug and tap into phones in the Democratic Party’s headquarters

Singled out as Communists → forced to testify → refused → jail + blacklisted 

Claimed to have the names of Communists in the State Department; no proof

Part of 1950s counter-culture; poems had a stream of consciousness like prose and rejected meter

Governor tried to prevent Black kids from entering a White school; federal guards sent to protect them

Communist leader of Cuba

Militant Black rights group