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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain, anti-communist

Wendell Wilikie
Republican, Wall Street lawyer, ran against FDR when FDR won his 3rd term.

Lend-Lease
1941, let the US supply Great Britain and the Soviet Union with supplies

GI Bill
Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, 1944, benefits for veterans

How did families change immediately after WWII?
Emphasis on traditional gender roles, high marriage percentage and 400 babies

Chiang Kai-Shek
Nationalist, anti-communist leader in china. Counted on US for support, but did not get enough and was forced to flee to Taiwan with supporters.

Mao Zedong
Communist leader of China. Defeated Chiang Kai-Shek

Allen Ginsberg
Poet, wrote “Howl”, criticizes materialism and conformity, pioneer of the Beats

Jack Kerouac
Writer, pioneer of the Beats

William Levitt
Mass producer of private homes, like Levittown, for veterans

Game Show Scandal (Twenty-One)
Herb Stempel was forced off the show by making him deliberately miss a question, in order to make way for Charles Van Doren (who would draw more viewers)

The Beats
A group that went against the norm. Not widely influential in their lifetime, but would influence the next generation’s culture

David Riesman
Wrote “The Lonely Crowd”, a book about his sociological study of the effect of group culture. People were afraid to stand out, and would discard their personal goals to fit in suburbia

Federal Loyalty-Security Program
Background checks for all civilian government workers

HUAC
Previously a watchdog against Nazi propaganda, revived as anti-communist

Richard Nixon
Member of HUAC, prominent anti-communist. Dwight Eisenhower’s VP candidate, saved his career with the “checkers” speech about his dog

Hollywood Ten
Ten pro-communist writers and directors investigated by the HUAC. Sent to jail and blacklisted from working in the entertainment industry

Alger Hiss
Public official found to be a commie and convicted of perjury

Whittaker Chambers
Part of a “Communist cell” in Washington that ratted out Alger Hiss

Checkers Speech
Nixon explained how the fund that he received worked and said he would never return the dog his daughter named “checkers”

Joseph McCarthy
US Senator from Wisconsin, accused many government officials of being commies

Dwight Eisenhower
Successful General, prez of Columbia University. Nixon was his VP.

Brown vs. Board of Education
Desegregated schools

Rosa Parks
Was sitting in the black section, but the white section overflowed and she refused to move. Not trying to start a fight. Sparked Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Montgomery Bus Boycott
Organized by Martin Luther King, blacks wouldn’t ride the buses

Martin Luther King
Noviolent leader in civil rights movement

CORE
Congress of Racial Equality, civil rights organization, organized the freedom rides

Bull Connor
Racist democrat from Alabama, attacked protestors. Backfired, as it caused sympathy for civil rights

George Wallace
Racist governor of Alabama

Watts Riot
Killed a lot of people in LA. Reaction to police brutality

Elijah Muhammad
Led the nation of islam. Malcom X disagreed with him and started a new branch of Black Islam

Nikita Khrushchev
De-stalinized Russia (but was the first secretary of the communist party), initiated progress in space program. Was removed after the Cuban missile crisis

Gamel Abdel Nassar
Overthrew the old Egypt, wanted to turn Cold War powers against each other and destroy israel

Suez Canal Crisis
The US and Britain refused to fund Egypt's Aswan Dam project, so Egypt (Gamel Abdel Nasser) refused to let them use the Suez Canal. The US, Britain, and Israel attacked Egypt.

Southern Manifesto
Written by legislators against integration

Orval Faubus
Governor of Arkansas, Refused to integrate little rock schools

Election of 1960
Close, JFK won, televised debates play a big role

John F. Kennedy
charisma

Bay of Pigs
Invasion of Cuba

Berlin Wall
Wall between east and west germany

Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba had missiles

“war on poverty,”
Helped pass Economic Opportunity Act

Great Society
Johnson’s plan

Immigration Act 1965.
Abolished national origin quotas for immigrants

Vietnamization
Giving control of the Vietnam effort to the vietnamese

Betty Friedan
Co-founded National Organization for Women, first president of it. Wrote "the feminine mystique"

NOW
Nation Organization for Women, founded in part by Betty Friedan, supported the Equal Rights Act

How did the feminists’ goals differ along generational lines?
Older feminists simply wanted equal treatment in the workplace, etc. Younger feminists wanted to completely throw off gender roles.

Counterculture
Hippies

ERA
Equal Rights Amendment (for women). Failed to pass. Phyliss Schlafly led the opposition, point out that equal treatment would have consequences that women would not want. (draft, etc)

Stonewall
Violent demonstrations against the police

Roe v. Wade
Legalized abortion. Linda McCorvey was the woman involved.

Détente
The easing of tension in the Cold War. Issues being resolved

Watergate
Scandal when Richard Nixon was in office. 5 people broke in to the Democrat nation headquarters to get information about the upcoming election, and Nixon's administration tried to cover it up. It led to Nixon's resignation.

Richard Nixon
Widely known as anti-communist in his early political career. Vice president under Eisenhower. Delivered the "checkers" speech on TV. Later elected President. Was forced to resign from the presidency after Watergate.

Saturday Night Massacre
President Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox from his position, who was investigating Watergate.

Freedom of Information Act
Signed by President Johnson, gave access to a lot of documents previously not available to the public.

War Powers Act
The president must notify congress within 48 hours of dispatching troops. They can't remain dispatched for more than 60 days without authorization from congress. Nixon vetoed it but it was overridden.

OPEC
A group of nations that export oil. They work with each other to manipulate oil prices.

Jerry Falwell
Southern Baptist minister, co-founded the Moral Majority. Wrote "The Clinton Chronicles", which investigated many alleged crimes Bill Clinton had committed.

Mikhail Gorbachev
The last President of the Soviet Union. A communist in younger years, but came to embrace more democratic ideas. Helped end the Cold War, and helped dissolve the Soviet Union. Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Iran-Contra affair
During the Reagan Administration, people high up in the US government agreed to sell weapons to Iran to secure the release of some hostages Iran was holding. (And Nicaragua is somehow involved, idk how)

George H. W. Bush
President after Reagan. Had an extremely high approval rating after the speedy and effective gulf war. The economy started tanking though, the year before his reelection. He lost to Clinton.

Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq. After accumulating debt in a war with Iran, he invaded Kuwait to gain their oil supply.

Operation Desert Storm
The final conflict of the gulf war. It drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait.

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill
Clarence Thomas was nominated by George H.W. Bush to the Supreme Court. Allegations came out that he had sexually harassed Anita Hill. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court by the narrow vote of 52-48.

Bill Clinton
President after George H.W. Bush. Previously governor of Arkansas. Had an affair with Monica Lewinsky while in office. Strongly opposed by the Christian right. Advanced gay rights. Nicknamed "slick willie" because, like Reagan, any bad things said about him would not stick.

NAFTA
Trade agreement among the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Kenneth Starr
Investigated allegations of misconduct by President Clinton, include the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Newt Gingrich
Republican, opposed to Bill Clinton's policies. House minority leader during clinton's first term, Speaker of the House during Clinton's second term. Helped write "Contract with America"

Contract with America
Written by Republicans, promising what they would do for America if elected in congress for Bill Clinton's second term. Written in part by Newt Gingrich.

Multiculturalism
An emphasis on multiple distinct cultures existing within a nation.

1994 Smithsonian WWII exhibit
Controversy over whether the exhibit was accurately portraying the US and its motives in WWII

Welfare reform
One of Clinton's accomplishments. Includes the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Cut welfare benefits for people not trying to work. One of the factors that contributed to the federal surplus in Clinton's presidency.

Impeachment
Trying the president for crimes committed in office.

Al Gore
President after Clinton

September 11
Everyone knows what this is

Osama Bin Laden
founding leader of Al Qaeda