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Servicemen's Readjustment ACt (GI bill)
continue education, loans for homes
promoted better educated workforce, construction, and expansion -
Period: to
Truman
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Taft- Hartley Act
Check growing power of Labor unions
outlaw closed shoo
require workers to join a union after being hired
outlaw secondary boycotts
80 day "cooling off" period -
22nd Amendment
2 term limit
unless vice president and person dies then you have 2.5 -
Period: to
Eisenhower
Delegation of Authority
Former General
modern Republicanism
domino theory
military industrial complex -
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
separate but equal isn't possible
segregation in schools end with "all deliberate speed"
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall -
Period: to
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Public segregation in buses
SCLC
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1956 Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional -
Little Rock 9
School desegregation
State national guard
Orval Faubus
sent federal troops to protect the black students -
Period: to
Kennedy
young/inexperienced
peace corps
alliance for progress
charisma
Assasinated -
Berlin Wall erected
Keep East Germans from escaping (brain Drain)
symbol of cold war tensions -
March on Birmingham
marchers arrested
filled jails
Letter from a Birmingham Jail- argued for nonviolence, asked for white christian understanding
won over Kennedy -
March on Washington
Northern/white support
200000 marched
I have a Dream -
Period: to
Johnson
Vietnam War
Great society program -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson
made segregation in all public facilities illegal
power to enforce
Equal employment opportunity commision -
Freedom Summer
Beginning of political goal
Mississippi voter registration
challenge rule of segregtion
white college students
freedom schools -
Chaney Goodman Schwerner killed
three activists were killed during freedom summer -
Miranda Rights
lawyer present during questioning -
25th Amendment
in caseof loss of president, vice president becomes president
whenever there is a vaccancy in the office of the vice president, the president shall nominate a vice president who shall ke office under confirmation by a majority in congress -
Martin Luther King Assasinated
martyr for civil rights
shot in memphis tennessee -
Period: to
Nixon
growing conservativism
imperial presidency
vietnamization
super suspicious
watergate -
US moon landing
end of space race -
26th amendment
lowered voting age to 18
if they can be drafted the should be able to vote -
Watergate
humiliation of nixon
breaking into the democratic national headquarters
CREEP
plumbers
nixon resigns -
Roe v Wade
unconstitutional to projibit voluntry abortions -
Agnew Resignation
VP Spiro Agnew resigns b/c tax evasion while MD governor
further discredited us govt -
Period: to
Ford
pardons nixon` -
Period: to
Carter
informal
intelligence and dedication
humanitarian
high inflation rates
blamed for all the problems -
Camp David Accords
President Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Carter
negotiated framework to peacesettlement
first step in peace in middle east -
Iran Hostage Situation
Ayatolla Khomeini (religious leader) overthrows dictatorial ovt
militants seize Us embassy
symbol of carter's failed presidency
Released during reagan's first day -
olymbic boycott
USSR invades Afghanistan
US boycotts olympics
first politicial use of olympics -
Period: to
Reagan
Teflon President
Reagonomics
diffuse Cold War
Conservativism -
Iran Contra Affair
Reagan aides sold US antitnk and antiaircraft missiles to Iran to negotiate for hostage release
Another aide used profits to fund anti-communist contras in nicaragua -
Period: to
HW Bush
End of cold war
recession
cuts in federal programs
Americans with disabilities act -
Gulf War
Iraq invaded kuwait
strengthened UN peacekeeping role -
27th amendment
prohibited members of congress from raising their own salaries -
Period: to
Clinton
Scandals and controversies
NAFTA
constant battle w/ conservative congress