Before the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960’s began, small concessions to the African-American freedom/equality cause had been made (Document C, Desegregation of Armed Forces)
New legislation to better the lives and experiences of blacks in the United States was written and enacted, due in part to 1) the assassination of JFK and a desire to continue his pro-desegregationist views and 2) to the marches and protests of Civil Rights leaders like MLK, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc. who fought for the freedom of blacks (Documents B - Brown v. Board ruling, D - Voting Rights Act, and E - Civil Rights Act)
2. Civil Rights/Society
Blacks were organizing rallies, marches, and protests to try to bring attention to their plight. At these protests, however, the hatred and bigotry of many whites (especially Southern whites) was displayed, and many people ended up receiving injuries or being jailed (Document G - fire hoses used against protesters in Birmingham)
Even after the passing of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Act, most whites still didn’t want to desegregate, and government and military intervention became necessary to enforce the laws that had been passed to ensure equality for African-Americans (Documents A - Desegregation of Central High School and F - 101st Airborne and Little Rock 9)
There were some white leaders who agreed with the blacks’ fight for freedom and equality and supported their cause. They didn’t, however, agree with the methods employed to help reach the goals of the Civil Rights Movement’s leaders, even though such methods were peaceful and nonviolent (Document H - article from Birmingham News)
Main Points
Small concessions were made to bring some justice to blacks
Civil Rights Movement angered and frightened some people who resisted desegregation and black equality and showed it ostentatiously
Movement gained support from leaders who agreed with the cause but not necessarily the methods
Efforts of blacks and assassination of sympathetic JFK led to passing of Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act despite fervent opposition
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Outline Unit VII – Question 1(Part C)
Economics
Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon’s tax policies favored rapid expansion of capital investment
New oil fields
Assembly line production
Providing electric power, especially for cars (30 million cars by 1930)
Advertising = people want more more more, bigger and better things
Bruce Barton
Sports = $
George H. (“Babe”) Ruth, fans bought so many tickets that Yankee Stadium became known at “the house that Ruth built”
Jack Dempsey knocks out French heavyweight Georges Carpentier
Buying on credit
Allows people to buy radios, cars, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners
The Birth of a Nation first full length, glorified the KKK of Reconstruction days and defamed blacks and northern carpetbaggers
Hollywood is the movie capital of the world
Some movies outraged the public and censorship was born
Used as anti-German propaganda
The Jazz Singer first talkie
Rich movie stars are born, known better than politicians
Cars for joyrides and status symbol
Aviation, Charles Lindbergh
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless telegraphy
Radio stations, long-distance broadcasting
Jazz music
Black migration to the cities,
W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong
Racial pride
Writers
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, Eugene O’Neill, Sherwood Anderson, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, each with their respected books.
Outline Unit IX – Question 2(Part C)
The Truman Doctrine
asked for $400 million to protect Greece and Turkey from communism
“it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”
resist communist aggression
called a holy global war against godless communism
lead to the Marshall Plan which gave money to recovering countries so the communists parties would not grow
by recognizing Israel, Arab nations turned anti American
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
II. Japan and China
General MacArthur writes a constitution for Japan that denounced militarism and introduced Western-style democracy, overall a success
United States half-heartedly supported the Nationalist government of Generalissimo Jiang Jieshi in his struggle with communists under Mao Zedong
corruption flooded his regime and began to corrode the confidence of his people
Jiang fled to the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
1/4th world’s population is communist
USSR exploded atomic bomb and prompted Truman to order the development of the “H-bomb”
Nixon plays off of China and USSR tensions to lessen the tensions between these countries and the US.
III. Korea
After the war Japan and the United States set up opposing governments north and south of the 38th parallel (were the two forces were fighting, when Japan fell in 1945)
North Korea attacks South Korea with Soviet tanks on June 25, 1950
Allowed for the US to build up its military (National Security Council Memorandum Number 68)
General MacArthur attacks and pushes into North Korea, but then the Chinese attack back, General MacArthur wants to bombard Chinese bases in Manchuria
Truman does not let him attack, but he does anyway and MacArthur is fired for insubordination
Korea remains divided around the 38th parallel
III Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh becomes increasingly communist, and the French forces crumble under Viet Minh guerrilla pressure
Fortress of Dienbienphu fell to the communists, and a multination conference at Geneva halved Vietnam at the 17th parallel (1954). Ho Chi Minh guaranteed elections within two years
Eisenhower promised economic and military aid to Ngo Dinh Diem’s pro-Western government of the south until he made certain social reforms
The Kennedy administration encouraged a coup against Diem in November 1963, and made dangerously deep commitments (15,000 men by the time of his death)
by the distractions in Vietnam, the USSR was able to expand its influence on the middle east
huge antiwar demonstrations, draft (many fled to Canada to resist being drafted)
Senator William Fulbright’s Committee on Foreign Relations showed public hearing on television about the war
The Tet Offensive defeat
Nixon’s “Vietnamization” withdraw the 540, 000 US troops over an extended period of time, and turn the war over the South Vietnam with some training = Nixon Doctrine
56,000 dead, over 300,000 wounded, 3rd most costly foreign war in US history
disgust with massacre at My Lai made public in 1970
1970 Nixon ordered US troops to clean out enemy sanctuaries on neutral Cambodia
cease-fire in 1973, North Vietnam gets to keep 145,000 troops in South Vietnam = shaky peace
North Vietnam attacks in 1975 and US evacuate remaining troops and 140,000 South Vietnamese.
IV. Iran
Iran begins to resist the Western companies that controlled Iranian petroleum
CIA engineered a coup and installed Mohammed Reza Pahlevi as a dictator
Secures oil for the West, but left a bitter legacy of resentment among many Iranians = what we have in Iran now
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela
Kennedy’s military advisors thought about sending in troops but found that they had insufficient forces to put out the fire
Geneva Conference imposed a shaky peace on Laos in 1962
Outline Answer Unit II – Question 2
Legislative Assemblies
Town halls of New England area
1. Direct Democracy
House of Burgesses of Virginia
representation
First Families of Virginia
Appointed governors, and Upper house of a legislative body
E. Religious, age, gender and status qualifications to vote
Commerce
Industries: Tobacco, Wheat, Lumber, Fish, Flour, Other Grains
Land speculation
Triangle Trade
seamen sell food and forest products to sugar islands in exchange for gold wine and oranges which were sold in Europe for industrial goods = huge profit back in the colonies
sell rum in Africa in exchange for slaves, which was exchanged for molasses in the sugar islands, which was then distilled in New England to make more rum
Americans demanded British products, but the British population could not absorb many more of the Colonial products, so the colonists traded with France and other European countries (tobacco) as well as the West Indies (food and forest products)
eventually led to the Molasses Act (no trade with other countries) but then the colonists just smuggled things around the law, because the British were not enforcing it
Religion
Church of England/Anglican Church officail religion of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and part of New York
Come to colonies for religious freedom (Puritans, Separatists, Presbyterians, Jewish, Quakers etc.)
Congregational Church of New England (except Rhode Island)