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Flashcards by Ella-mentary, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Truman (1945 - 1953) | Main concerns: Transfer from war-time economy to peace-time economy. Returning soldiers. |
| Truman Doctrine | Truman declared that the US would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. |
| Marshall Plan | 1948 Truman and Marshall asked for $17 billion to aid countries in Europe, so that they could recover from the Second World War, and wouldn't be 'tempted' by communism. |
| Civil Rights Movement Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka | 1945 Chief Justice Earl Warren Overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling in Educational institutions; de jure racial segregation was rules a violation of the Constitution. |
| Civil Rights Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955 Rosa Parks & MLK. Protest against the racial segregation on public transport in Alabama. NOT supported by Eisenhower. |
| Civil Rights Movement Little Rock | 1957 9 African-American students were prevented from entering Little Rock Central High School by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas. Eisenhower sent the army in. |
| Civil Rights Movement Freedom Rides | 1961 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Challenge the non-enforcement of the US Supreme Court decisions (1956), which ruled that segregated public buses was unconstitutional. |
| Civil Rights Movement Birmingham Campaign | 1963 White policemen were shown on TV beating black marchers, most notably students. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & MLK. |
| Civil Rights Movement March on Washington | 1963 MLK's "I have a dream" speech. Hundreds of thousands of participants in front of the Lincoln Memorial. |
| Civil Rights Movement Watts Riots | 1965 Watts, Los Angeles. 6 days of violence and unrest (34 deaths; 1,032 injuries; 3,438 arrests; more that $40 million in property damage). |
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