KEEP!!
cold war project this will be a 200 pt project this is due when we finish the pres blogs.
my topic is number 2 which is policy of containment: domino effect, iron curain speech, marshall plan, and truman Doctorine. this should be less than 20 slides
our next blog assignment isnumber 11 and we have a laundry list of things and we have to do a sentance for each one. this is due last weekend
our final blog assignemtn is number 12 and i am doing moon landing and space program
-need to start semester blog
Notes:
Harry TRUMAN
-1945-1953
-was a democrate
-33rd pres
-came into office cause fdr died
-was reelected
- was against dewey. dewey defeats truman was a headline but truman won
-didnt know anything about the manhattan project
-passed the fair deal
-it was compared to the new deal
- strongly supported cival rights
-desegragated the us military
-created the truman doctorine
-truman fired macarthur this made him very unpopular
-was an assanation attempt.
-had the marshall plan
-passed the 22 ammendment...which says you can only serve 2 terms
-no more than 10 years
-was the pres wen WWII ended
-pres who
-believed in the domino affect
-helped organizeand join the united nations
-created teh Cia and the nationsal security council
-there was the dixiecrates were democrates that didnt like blacks and were very segragated
-believed that isreal should be there
Dwight Eisenhower
-34th pres
-republican party
-served from 1953-1961
-first pres to lead all 50 states
-ended the korean war
-created NASA
-famous WWII gerneral
-didnt know what paty he was until this election
-had to deal alot with the cold war
-richard nixon was his vp
-diagnossed with Crohn's diesase and had a minor stroke while pres
-won pretty easlie against stevenson...stevensen lost twice to him
-people trusted him
-had a minor stoke during presdency
-dominated y the col war- containment policy
-also used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad (iran. guatamala)
-open relations with spain
-ended the koreadn conflict as promisted in his 1952 eletion campaign
-defesice alliances were signed with south korea and taiwan
-SEATO was formed South Eastn Asia Treaty Organization
-increased us involvemnt in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)-US advistors sent
-developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons (deterrence)
-NASA created due to Soviet Sputnik launch
-US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR
-allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve
-Eisenhower Doctrine which was a doctorine saying you could request help from us to give you aid...like money or weapons. it was aimed at communist
-believedin laissez-faire
-believed in a balanced budget
-deported around 1 million illegal immigrants (mostly Mexicans)
-sent federal troops to little rock arkansas to help in the desgration of all public schools -1954- brown case...this deals with little rock 9
-helped passs the federal aid highway act of 1956 which created the united states unterstate highways
John F.Kennedy
-i did this blog
-35th president
-1961-1963
-assintated by lee harvey oswald
-ran against vp richard nixon
-first presidential televised debates took place
-many say this helped JFK win the election
-old war issues dominated kennedy's presidnecy
-berlin wall was built in 1961
-said "ask not what you country can do for you; ask what you can do fo ryour country".
-bay of pids insation- 1961
-cuban missile crisis
-alliance fro progessive with latin america
-kenndy increaded the number of helicopters, military advisors and undeclared U.S. spcial froces in the Vietmnam
-the CIA helped the new Ba'ath party government overthrow ommunist in iraq. this new party systematically murdered alrge numbers of educated eleict--killings in which saddam hussein himself issaid to have participated
-nuclear test ban treaty was signed in 1963
-The New Frontier
-promised federal funding fo :
1)education
2)medical care for elderly
3)ecomnomic aid toural reginons
4)government intervention to halt the recession
5) end ractial discrimination
-peace corps was established in 1961 where americans volunteer to help underdevelped nations in areas such as education, farming, heath care, and construction
-signed the Equial Pay act of 1963, a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex
-JFK wanted us to get a man on the moon
Lyndon Johnson
- JFK's VP
-took over as president after JFk was assassinated
-Daisy Girl and Ice Cream are two of his campain commericals that basically won his presidency
-johnson used scare tatics
-put together the WArren commision to investigate the JFK asssasssination
-passed citivil rights aCT OF 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segreation
-passed Voting Rights Act (1965) which outlawed discrimation in voting thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time
-started affirmative action laws
-passed immigation act of 1965 which allowed more non-european people to immigrate to US. Immigratin more than doubled between 1965-1970
-Johnsons plant to:
-aid education
-attack diseases
-medicare and medicaid
-urban renewal
-beautification, consercation, develpoed of depressed regions
-war on poverty
-control and prevetion of crime
-romoval of obstacles to the right to vote
-elemmatary and secondary education act of 1965--for the frist time large amounts of money went to public schools
-higher education act of 1965 which focused fundering lower income students like grants work astudy money and government loans
-set up the national endowment for the humanities and the nationsal enddownment for the arts
-econgomic oppertunity act helped starte head start, food stamps, work study, medicare, and medicaid
-gun control act of 1968 regualtes the firearms industry and firearms owners paked in response to the assassination of JFK, RFK, and MLK
-the veitnam conflisct dominate much of Johnso's presidency
-believed in the domino theory
-gulf of tonkin resolution (1964) -congress gave johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit
Richard Nixon
-Republican
-37th president
-1969-1974
-vp of eisenhower
-lost 1960 election to JFK
-the only person to be eleced twice to both the presidency and VP
-only president to resign from office
-vienam conflict dominated much of his presidency- war became very unpopular
-poromised to end the war - "Peach with honor"
-expanded the war to the combodia and loas-bombing ho chi minh trail
-started pulling troops out of vietnam as promised
-the nixon doctorine- "vitnamization" of the war
-Paris Peach Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and go the US out of the war
-national enviropmental policy act
-clean air act of 1970
-Federal Water Pollution Control ACt
-Established many government agencies
1 enviromental protection agency
2 occupational safety and health administration
3 council of enviromental 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
-supposrted affirmative action
-signed Title IX (1972) probibitng gender discrimiation in all federally funded schools
-equally emplyment opportunity act-enforces laws against work place discrimination based on an indeiviual's race, color, natioal origin, religinon, sex, age, perceived intelligence and disablity
-abortion was legalized duing nizon's presidency (roe v. Wade -1973)
-US astromauts landed on the moon -1969
-nixon apprioved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program
-in 1972, President Nixon Traveled to China where the president wsas to have direct talks with MAo Zedong and Chou En-lai
-this eased relations with the US and China adn China (not Taiwan) was recognized as the official China
-went to Moscow in 1972
-SALT I was signed, limiting nuclear weapons
-Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles
-this led to the new era of '' peachfull co-existence'' and detente with the USSR
-supported israel in the youm kippur war (1973) where israel was attacked by egypt and syria
-this support of israel led to teh 1973 oil crissis where OPEC countrie did not trade oil with the US as a result
-Nixon lowered the maximum US speed limit to 55 mile per hour to conserve gasoline during the4 crises
-nixon took us completely off the gold standard
-resigned on August
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