eisenhowers accomplishments..
-dominated by the cold war-containment policy..
-used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist gov't abroad..
-opened relations with Spain..
-ended korean conflict and promised in his 1952 election campaign..
-defensive alliances were signed with south korea and taiwan..
-SEATO.. was formed.. south east aisa..
-increased US involvement in southeast korea (vietnem) US advisors sent..
-developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons (deterrence)
-started nasa becoz of soviet sputnik launch..
-US spy plane U-2 was shot down over USSR..
-allowed mccarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve..
-eisenhowers doctrine.. aimed at communists*
-believed in laissez faire..
-believed in balanced budget..
-deported around 1 mil illegal immigrants (mostly mexicans..)
-sent federal troops to little rock to help in the desegregation of all public schools 1954- brown case..-
-helped pass the federal aid highway act of 1956..
---Kenedy---
-served in WWII
-was a US representative and Senator for Massechusetts before becoming president..
-married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier..
-first and only catholic president..
-youngest elected president and second youngest president..
-assainated in 1963 in Dallas, texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald..
-struggled getting domestic deals passed..
-stopped us from getting into a war against russia..
-tried getting man on the moon..
-equal rights..
-went to school to become a doctor..
-was doctor for a little bit..
-ran against vice president richard nixon..
-first presidential televised debates that took place..
-many say this helped JFK win the election..
-east berlin was communists..
-bay of pigs invasion in 1961..
-cuban missle crisis..
-alliance for progress with latin america..
-kenedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisors, and special forces in vietnam..
-the CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party gov't overthrow Communists in iraq. this new party systematically murdered large numbers of iraq's educated elite..
-nuclear test ban treaty..
-new frontier..
-promised federal funding for:
1.edu.
2.medical care for elders..
3. economic aid to rural areas
4.gov't intervention of the recession..
5. end racial discrimination..
-peace corps was established in 1961 wehere americans volenteer to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as edu. farming. health care, construction..
-signed the equal pay act of 1963 a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex..
-warren commision..
---Johnson---
-JFK's vice president..
-took over as president after JFK was assasinted..
-johnson used scare tactics to win election..
-put together warren commision investigate the JFK assasination..
-passed civil rights act of 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation..
-passed viting rights act in 1965 which outlawed descrimination in voting.. which allowed mollion of southern blacks to vote for the first time..
-started affirmative action laws..
-passed immigration acts on 1965 which allowed more non-European people in immigrate into the US immigration more than doubled between 1965-70..
-Great Society--
-Johnson's plan:
- aid edu.
- attack disease.
- -medicare and medicaid.--still around today..
- urban renewal
- beautification conservation development of depressed regions.
- war on poverty
- control and prevention of crime.
- -removal of obsticles to the right to vote..
- elementary and secondary edu act of 1965.. for the first time large amnts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools..
- higer edu act of 1965 which focused on funding lower income students.. including grants and loans work study money and gov't loans..
- National Endowment for the humanities and the national endowment for the arts..
- economic opportunity act started headstarts.. which was for kids younger then kindergarten..
- gun control act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners passed in response in the assasinations of JKL MLK
- Johnson and vietnam..
- the vietnam conflict dominated much of johnsons presidency..
- believed in domino theory..
- gulf of tonkin resolution (1964) congress gave johnson complete power to wage a war in vietnam as he saw fit..
Richard Nixon..
- only president to run for VP and P..
- vietman conflict dominated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular.
- promised to end the war..
- expannded the war to cambodia and laos-bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail..
- started pulling troops out of vietnam as promised..
- veitnimization of the war.. The nixon doctrine..
- national enviornmental policy act..
- clean air act of 1970..
- federal water plooution control act.
- established many gov't agencies..
- envi.. protection agency..
- occupational safety and health admin..
- council on enviornmental quality..
- war on drugs 1971..
- supplemental security income.. provides $ to low income people who are either aged , blind, or disabled..
- saw large scale integration of schools in the south..
- supported affirmative action..
- signed title 9 prohibiting gender discrimination in all federally funded schools..
- equal employment opportuninty act- enfroces laws against workplace discrimination based on anyones race, color, national origin.. religion.. sex.. age.. percived intellegence and disability..
- abortion was legalized during nixons presidency..
- US astronauts landed on the moon.. 1969..
- nixon approved the development of NASA's space shuttle program..
- in 1972 nixon traveled to china where the president was to have direct talks to Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai..
- this eased relations with the US and china and china(not taiwan) was recognized as the official China..
- went to moscow in 1972..
- Salt I was signed limiting nuclear weapons..
- supported Isreal in the Yom Kippur War (1973) where israel was attacked by Eqypt and Syria..
- watergate scandal.. 5 men broke into the watergate hotel in washington DC.. wanting to re-elect nixon..
- tried to sabbatoge the democrats..
Gerald Ford..
- pardoned nixon..-- corupt bargain..
- whip inflation --called americans to reduce their spending and consmption in an attempt to stop inflation..
- edu for all handicapped children act (75) established special ed. in schools thruout the US..
- detente with USSR
- ford wanted to help south vietnam when north vietnam invaded in 1974 but congress refused..
- by april 1975 all of vietnam became communist..
- indochina migration and refugee assistance act was passed to allow refugees in immigrate to the US..
COLD WAR PROJECT..
- Causes of the Cold War....
- united states v. soviet union..
- democrats v. communists..
- 1945-1990..
- democracy..-get a say over everything..
- communist- controlled..
- US- democrats..
- Soviet Union..- communists..
- free trade.. we thought it'd be good :P
- soviet union didnt agree..
- rivalry over power.. they wanted power over us, we wanted power over them..
- splitting of germany..
- britain, france, US= west..
- soviet union= east..
- US= choice..
- USSR= disagree..
- iron curtain..
- europe=???
- truman doctrine..-help any country the is threatened by communism..
- marshall plan..- helped rebuild european countries economies..
- Atomic bomb..- US had it, and soviet union started creating them..
- intensified the Cold War..
- truman didnt like stalin..
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