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1950s-1969.pptxThe Dawn of the Cold War and Nuclear Fear
In the Age of Affluence
Coming out Under Fire
Cold War Catalysts… Who’s to Blame?
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1945
1955
1959
WWII ends
1946
Stalin’s election Speech
1947
Marshall Plan
1948
Berlin Airlift
1949
Soviet test Atomic bomb
NATO formed
Chinese Revolution
1950
Korean War
NSC-68 Issued
Warsaw Pact
Kitchen Debates
1961
Bay of Pigs
1962
Fall of South Vietnam
Cuban Missile Crisis
Belin Wall Built
1975
Gulf of Tonkin
1989
1964
1968
Prague Spring
Fall of Berlin Wall
Truman Doctrine
Iron Curtain Speech
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Nagasaki, August 9th, 1945
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities, (HUAC), 1937-1969
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Identifying the Enemy Within: McCarthyism in the 1950s
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Anti-Communism at home
The Lavender scare
Race in the 1950’s
Causes of 1950’s prosperity
High Government Spending For Construction on infrastructure
Transfer of wartime Industries to Civilian Manufacturing
Military Research Helped Stimulate New Industries
Led to new Technologies
Lack of Foreign Competition
Oil Boom Low Cost Fuel
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The 1959 Kitchen Debate
Suburbia, Housing Development, and Consumer Culture
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Redlining & Discrimination
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The Long Civil Right’s Decade
Holding the US accountable
Focus Question
How did different groups organize and fight for equal access to the promises of full citizenship in the United States?
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Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
“…What we were really doing was withdrawing our cooperation from an evil system, rather than merely withdrawing our economic support from the bus company”
-MLK Jr.
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Challenging “Rosa Sat so Martin could walk”
“when oppressed people willingly accept their oppression they only serve to give the oppressor …justification for their acts…in order to be true to one’s conscience…a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system” -MLK
1960 Sit-In Movement
August 28 1963: March on Washington
Demands
Access to public accommodations
Decent housing
The right to vote
Adequate and integrated education
A National Minimum Wage
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Civil Rights Act (1964)
Guaranteed equal treatment for all Americans
Outlawed discrimination in public and private accommodations, employment, restaurants and hotels
Banned discrimination on the basis of sex
Prohibited housing discrimination
Established Equal Opportunity Commission
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Freedom Summer (1964)
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Berkeley Free Speech Movement & the New Left
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The Vietnam War
1954- Battle of Dien Bien Phu & Vietnam Divided
1963- Assassination of Pres. Diem and Coup in S. Vietnam
1963- Kennedy assassinated, LBJ sworn in
1964- Golf of Tonkin resolution
1968- Tet Offensive
1969- 1st Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
1970- Expansion of War into Cambodia & Kent State
1973- Cease Fire
1973- Last U.S Troops Leave Vietnam
1975- Saigon Falls
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MFDP and The Power of Testimony
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Bristol Cave-LaCoste (BC) -
1965 Voting Rights act
Allowed federal officials to register voters
Abolished literacy tests & poll taxes
Federal monitors were placed in states with a history of discrimination
Prohibited state and local govts from passing voting laws that discriminated minorities
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1965 Immigration Act
Ended national origins quota system for immigration
Established race-neutral criteria for immigrants
Preference for family reunification and high-skilled workers
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Watts Riot, Los Angeles, 1965
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Malcolm X
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Black Panther Party 10-point program
We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community
We want full employment for our people
We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community
We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings
We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
We want all black men to be exempt from military service
We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people
We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons
We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States
WE want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace
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BPP Free Breakfast Program
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American Indian Movement (AIM)
1968 – Founders meet in Minnesota
1969 –19-month occupation of Alcatraz
1972 “Trail of Broken Treaties” march from the West Coast to Washington, DC
Nov. 1972 – occupation of BIA Washington office
1973 – 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1978 “The Longest Walk”, 2000 march from San Francisco to Washington D.C.
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“Red Power” - 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee
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Chicana/o Movement
1964- END OF BRACERO PROGRAM
1965- UFWA GRAPE BOYCOTT
1967- RAID ON AMARILLA COURTHOUSE
1968- STUDENT WALKOUTS
1969- EL PLAN ESPIRITUAL DE AZTLAN & EL PLAN DE SANTA BARBARA
1970- RAZA UNIDA PARTY FOUNDED
1970- MORATORIUM PROTEST AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR IN EAST LOS ANGELES
AWOC+NFWA=UFW (United Farm Workers), 1965
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Blowouts Baby…Blowouts: 1968 East Los Angeles Walkouts
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We Asian Americans believe that American society has been and still is fundamentally a racist society, and that historically we have accommodate ourselves to this society in order to survive, We Asian Americans support all non white liberation movements and believe all minorities, in order to be truly liberated, must have control over the political, economic, and social institutes within their respective communities….
- Richard aoki
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Asian American Movement
Some victories:
Fought against hiring discrimination
Demanded Asian and Asian American studies at universities
Built coalitions within the “Third World Movement” against colonialism
Rejected “orientalist” language and imagery
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Gay liberation
2nd Wave Feminism/Women’s Liberation Movement
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Confrontational Liberation…
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Roe v. Wade and Reproductive Access
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1968 The Poor People’s Campaign & Alliances
The poor peoples march
Demands
Provide jobs for the poor
Guaranteed annual income for the poor
Force the country to “see” the poor
$30 billion for war on poverty
Construction of low-income housing
1968: the system becomes the target
Global events
Prague Spring
The Tet Offensive
Massacre of Tlatelolco
Bloody Monday in Paris
Todai riots in japan
U.S. events
MLK Assassination
RFK assassination
Democratic national convention riots
East l.A. student blowouts
Olympic protest
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