US HISTORY 2ND “Let’s Get It” REVIEW
Squires/Hughes
Cold War: Iron Curtain, division of Berlin, Korea,
CIA’s role
Berlin Airlift, NATO – US, Allies to fight soviet
aggression
Cold
War at home: McCarthyism ( liar ) , Red Scare Soviets had invaded the government,
espionage (spying), fall-out shelters – to protect against the
harms of radiation, Truman – integrated the
Army.
Kennedy: Bay of
Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, space program, assassination
(NASA – developed due to Sputnik)
Vietnam: Dienbien
Phu, Tet Offensive – offensive from
the north to attack American bases, My Lai, Vietnamization – Allowing the
S. Vietnamese a bigger war role while pulling out,
Kent State – Major protest that resulted in
Police Shooting Protesters, withdrawal, domino
theory – if one falls to communism they all fall, Geneva Accords –
split the country into two (17th parallel), Gulf of Tonkin – sinking of the US ship (started the war), My Lai – Brutal butchering of innocent
Vietnamese by US troops,
Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott ( Rosa Parks ) ,
Greensboro sit-ins, Freedom Rides –
stopped in Jackson, MS, March on
Washington – I have a dream, Civil Rights Act 1964, Selma March – showed the brutality of the Police on National T.V. ,
Watts – Riots in LA, Martin
Luther King, Jr - SCLA, Malcolm X – Nation of Islam , Rosa Parks,
Thurgood Marshall - first US Supreme
Court Justice, defacto ( Culture ) vs. dejure (Law) segregation, affirmative action – blacks,
women and minorities received the benefit as a repayment for past injustices,
Rights for those with disabilities, environmentalism
Nixon: detente – relaxation of tensions between Russian
and US , ping-pong diplomacy – playing both sides to get more votes, Salt I, Watergate -illegally spying for without a warrant ( wiretapping , Ford ( pardon ) Southern Strategy
– appealing to white segregationist, executive
privilege – the feeling that the
Jimmy
Carter: Iran Hostage Crisis – ended in failure and , energy crisis – OPEC ( Saudi
Arabia, Middle East refused to pump gas. (led to more fuel efficient cars.
Ronald
Reagan: Reaganomics ( Trickle down theory ), conservatism, Beirut bombing, Star Wars - satellites, anti-missile shield , Gorbachev, dismantling of USSR
George
Bush: Operation Desert Storm/Saddam
Hussein
Bill Clinton:
Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, USS Cole, OKC bombing
Roles in each of the
conflicts. ( Small Wars but largely not
spoken of)
Election
of 2000 - Gore vs.
Bush – Bush won voter fraud in Florida.
George
W. Bush: Sept 11th, Osama
bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq
Election
of 2008 – Obama elected President
Presidents
in Order:
-
Real Tough Eggs Keep Jumping Near (the) Free
Chicken.
40’s-80’s Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter
-
Rowdy Boys Come Back Often.
90’s – Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama
DATES/
TIMELINE
Plessy
vs. Ferguson 1896 – segregation legal
Brown
v. Board of Education - Makes
segregation illegal in schools
Little
Rock 9 – (Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops to stop Governor from blocking Federal Law.)
MLK assassinated – Memphis, TN
Pearl Harbor – cause of WWII Kent State – shooting on college campus.
US
ceasefire in Vietnam Nixon
resigns after Watergate
Korean
War (50’s) Truman Iran
Hostage crisis
Beirut
bombing – bombed Marine base in Lebanon
Brown
v. Board of Education Challenger
disaster - blown up space shuttle
Montgomery
bus boycott Iran-Contra Scandal
Sending
weapons to Iranians
Money
used to fund C. American Army Greensboro sit-ins
Effect
on the Civil Rights
US-Soviet
INF Treaty
Fall
of Berlin Wall (89) What did it symbolize? Fall of communism
March
on Washington (I Have a Dream)
Operation
Desert Storm (1st) – Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Kennedy
assassinated End
of USSR - 1989
Civil
Rights Act OKC
bombing – Main subjects?
Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution Clinton
impeachment hearings
9/11/2001
US
bombing campaign in Afghanistan
US-led
coalition war in Iraq
Barack
Obama elected President