Unit 8 Apush Notes

Unit 8 APUSH Notes After War Conferences - Tehran, December 1943 (add info) - Yalta February 1945. Stalin knows we have an atomic bomb (He distrusts the US). Promised that United States, Britain, Russia, and France got zones of occupation in Germany after the Nazi’s surrender. - Potsdam July 17-August 2, 1945 (right before we dropped a bomb in Hiroshima) - attended by Harry Truman, Prime Minister Clement Atlee, and Joseph Stalin. Focused on Germany, to make sure they can’t do bad stuff again. United Nations • - Replace the League of Nations • - Everyone joins the United Nations • - UN has power of enforcement -sanctions • inspector • peace-keepers • army • Structures within the UN -IMF/world bank • WlTO • ICC / ICT - UN declaration of human rights Weaknesses of United Nations - Security council ↳ (U. S., Britain, France, China) - 196 countries-how to pass? ↳ things happen slowly Korean War - Forgotten war. Never an official end. No peace treaty or armistice agreement to end it. Overlooked due to more important conflicts like WW2 and Vietnam. Marshall Plan - Practically bought Europe to aid economic recovery after war SNCC - Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - Non-violence as tactic for desegregation - moral high ground - SCLC - Southern Christion Leadership Conference* headed by MLK - Freedom ride - black in front, white in back - Bull Connor - Birmingham Vietnam War 1968 - Ho Chi Min Dien Bien Phu Tet offensive Welter* Conflicts LBJ doesn’t worry about campaigning MLK jr get assassinated - civil unrest Robert Kennedy gets assassinated Movements - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) - Emergence and growth - Port Huron Statement - Free Speech Movement at Berkeley - Counterculture - Primarily attracted by college students (caused a huge inclination in drug use) - The countercultures’ notion of liberation centered on the free individual - Sexual freedom - Rejection of mainstream values - Challenge to authority - Cultural "liberation" - "Sexual revolution" ; Physical appearance, fashion ; "Sex, drugs, rock and roll" - Timothy Leary; banned LSD - to try get the movement to stop - Rock festivals; Woodstock (symbol of counterculture) - Native Americans - AIM - Latinos - The movement emphasized pride in both the Mexican past and the new Chicano culture that had arisen in the United States. - Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the National Farm Workers Association (United Farm Workers of America) in 1962. - Grape strike and hunger strike - Gay Liberation - Before were stigmatized as sinful or mentally disordered. - The sixties transformed the gay movement. - Stonewall Bar - - Women Right’s Movement - Founding of National Organization for Women - - Radical feminists’ first public campaign demanded the repeal of state laws that underscored women’s lack of self-determination by banning abortions or leaving it up to physicians to decide whether a pregnancy should be terminated. Abortion rights - a major victory Gloria Steinman Sherly Chism Environmentalism - Styland Springs - Clean Water Act, Clean air act (pollution was so bad that the river in Clevland caught on fire) - all signed by Richard Nixon