Distrust of Soviet Union

Cold War Distrust of Soviet Union Distrust of USA Sputnik – Oct. 4, 1957 United Nations – June 26, 1945 Space Race Yalta Conference – Feb. 1945 Impact on education Big Three Neil Armstrong 1969 Germany and Berlin Cuba – 1959 – Fidel Castro Potsdam Conference – July 1945 Stalin’s “change of mind” Post War America Satellite nations Desegregation of the military Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Executive Order 9981 Hungary, Romania, Poland Election of 1948 George Kennan – 1946 – containment Dem. Harry Truman 303 Iron Curtain Rep. Thomas Dewey 189 Truman Doctrine - 1947 Dixiecrat – Strom Thurmond 39 Turkey and Greece – 1947 Korean War, McCarthyism, etc. Marshall Plan – 1948 Election of 1952 Berlin Airlift – June 1948 Rep. Dwight Eisenhower 442 1948 – draft VP – Richard Nixon Organization of American States - 1948 Dem. Adlai Stevenson 89 NATO – 1949 Economy (Warsaw Pact – 1955) G.I. Bill 1944 Fall of China – 1949 Levittown Korean War Growth of the Sunbelt 38th parallel Franchises United Nations Baby Boom Douglas MacArthur Jonas Salk – 1955 Yalu River Women’s role Truman vs. MacArthur Leisure time Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Cold War at home Conformity Second Red Scare Beat Movement House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Beatniks Hollywood Ten – 1947 Rock n Roll - Elvis Presley Alger Hiss – 1948 20s versus 50s Whitaker Chambers Richard Nixon “Military Industrial Complex” Sept. 3, 1949 – Soviet Union – A-Bomb Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – 1951 New Frontier June 19, 1953 Election of 1960 Joseph McCarthy - 1950 Dem. John F. Kennedy 303 57, 81, 202 Rep. Richard Nixon 219 McCarthyism – “Witch Hunt” Television debate – Sept. 26, 1960 Army-McCarthy hearings – 1953 “And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country “Have you no decency, sir?” can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” “The best and the brightest” 1945 – US A-Bomb Robert Kennedy 1949 – USSR A-Bomb Massive retaliation vs. Flexible response 1952 – USA Hydrogen bomb Peace Corps - 1961 1953 – USSR Hydrogen Bomb Cold War not going well Sputnik, U-2, Cuba ’59, 1961 – Khrushchev said Dwight Eisenhower as president victory was inevitable Brinkmanship – massive retaliation ICBM – Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles MAD Cuba – Fidel Castro - 1959 Civil Defense Bay of Pigs Invasion CIA Stalin dies 1953 April 17, 1961 Nikita Khrushchev JFK Missile gap Hungary – 1956 Khrushchev’s bluff - sausages Eisenhower’s response Iran - 1956 Kennedy’s response Eisenhower Doctrine – 1957 Cuban Missile Crisis – October 1962 Booker T. Washington Oct. 14 – see missiles Tuskegee Institute Oct. 22 – TV address Atlanta Compromise 1895 “quarantine” W.E.B. DuBois The deal Talented Tenth Berlin Crisis Niagara Movement - 1905 Berlin Wall 1961 NAACP – 1909 Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev Great Migration Assassination Marcus Garvey Dallas Harlem Renaissance November 22, 1963 Mechanical cotton picker – 1944 Lee Harvey Oswald Truman integrates armed forces – 1948 Jack Ruby Executive Order 9981 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education 1954 The Great Society Thurgood Marshall Lyndon Baines Johnson Rosa Parks – 1955 Liberalism (versus Conservatism) Bus boycott Civil Rights MLK Jr. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Little Rock Crisis – 1957 24th amendment Central High School Voting Rights Act of 1965 Little Rock Nine Immigration Act of 1965 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) War on Poverty Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Economic Opportunity Act (snick) Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Freedom Riders Project Head Start Ku Klux Klan Medicare George Wallace – Gov. of Alabama Medicaid “I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Vietnam War Segregation forever!” March on Washington – August 28, 1963 Civil Rights Movement “I have a dream” Why did African slavery develop in colonies? 24th amendment – 1964 Atlantic World - Triangular Trade – Middle Passage Civil Rights Act of 1964 Stono Rebellion, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner Voting Rights Act of 1965 Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Race Riots 1964-68 3/5 Compromise Long Hot Summers 2nd Great Awakening Changing philosophy among Civil Rights leaders… Richard Allen Malcolm X Frederick Douglas “by any means necessary” William Lloyd Garrison Nation of Islam/ Black Muslims Theodore Dwight Weld Stokely Carmichael Harriet Tubman “Black Power” David Walker Black Panthers American Colonization Society Huey Newton Dred Scott 1857 MLK – April 4, 1968 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 James Earl Ray 54th Massachusetts 13th amendment Other civil rights movements…. 14th amendment 15th amendment Chicano Movement Voting barriers Cesar Chavez Reconstruction Delores Huerta Radical Republicans Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 American Indian Movement (AIM) Compromise of 1877 Russell Means Freedman’s Bureau Alcatraz 1969 Sharecropping system Wounded Knee 1973 Crop-lien System Jim Crow Laws Stonewall Riots 1969 Plessy v. Ferguson 1896