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-truman's domestic program
-expand social safety net
-raise living standards
-continue New Deal reforms -
-created council of economic advisers that promoted economic welfare
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-outlawing closed shops
-permitted states to pass "right to work" laws outlawing the union shops
-outlawing secondary boycotts
-gave president power to invoke an 80 day cooling off period -
-President Harry S. Truman's program
-aid to European countries
-threatened by communism -
-U.S. program
-for reconstruction of post world war 2 Europe
-massive aid to former enemy nations and allies
-proposed by General George C. marshall -
-principal forum for President to consider national security, foreign policy, and military matters
-senior national security advisors and cabinet officials -
-low cost
-mass produced developments of suburban tract housing
-built by William Levitt after World War II on long island -
-southern democrats broke off wanting states rights party and a reaction to the civil rights
-liberal democrats broke off due to foreign policies -
-alliance by ten western European nations
-U.S., Canada to deter Soviet expansions in Europe -
-abruptly ended U.S. nuclear monopoly
-landmark event shifted the Cold War balance of power
-accelerated the nuclear arms race
-triggered massive expansion in U.S. defense spending and thermonuclear weapons research
-solidified USSR as a superpower -
-manifesto described the Cold War as epic struggle
-between "idea of freedom" and "idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin"
-increased military spending -
-congress passed which made it unlawful to advocate/support totalitarian government
-restricted employment of those in communist organizations
-authorized creations of detention camps -
-North Korea invaded South Korea
-Truman applied containment policy
-Douglas MacArthur made bold move above line
-advanced almost to Chinese border but failed to tell China and troops came in
-later stabilized at 38th parallel
-MacArthur wanted to continue to fight and spoke out and was let go insubordination
-Armistice was signed in 1953
-2.5 million Koreans died with 54,000 Americans -
-Americans were over Truman
-looked for relief from the Korean War
-Eisenhower was not a politician and promising the American people to end Korean war was promising -
-U.S. Supreme Court decision
-struck down racial segregation in public education
-declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional -
-sparked by Rosa Parks's arrest
-refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger
-year long boycott protesting segregation on city buses
-led by Martin Luther King Jr. -
-passed over President Harry Truman's veto
-law contained number of provisions to weaken labor unions
-including banning of closed shops -
-first artificial satellite to orbit earth
-launched October 4, 1957 by Soviet Union -
-passed in reaction to America's perceived inferiority in space race
-encouraged education in science and modern languages through student loans, university research grants, and aid to public schools -
-hoping to inspire revolt against Fidel Castro
-CIA sent 1500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland
-mission was spectacular failure -
-caused when U.S. discovered Soviet offensive missile sites
-U.S. Soviet confrontation was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war -
outlawed discrimination based on
-race
-color
-religion
-sex
-national origin -
-abolished national origin quota system
-established new racially neutral criteria for immigration
-set limits on Western Hemisphere immigration for first time -
-passed in wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma to Montgomery March
-authorized federal protection of right to vote
-permitted federal enforcement of minority voting rights in individual countries -
-19 hijackers
-president Bush sent troops to afganistan and iraq
-patriot act
-department of homeland security
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