Warren Court- The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969.
Brown v. Board of education- (1954), was a significant United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
This supreme court case was considered a major victory for the civil right movement, in a way, it was a turning point for African-Americans.
Montgomery Bus Boycott- 1956, an event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks- Lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott when arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, 1956.
Significance: showed how
nonviolent protest could be effective.
Also, gave hope to African-Americans.
John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.
Dulles was a nationalist who believed that the U.S. should liberate the Europeans from Soviet control (Communism). The secretary of state advocated that the American military place more emphasis on nuclear technology and less on conventional weapons.
President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, when settling foreign disputes, threatened countries with the United States nuclear weapons in order to come to agreements.
John Foster Dulles was a pioneer of mass retaliation, who opposed “containment”.
Berlin Crisis of 1961- 1961, was the last major military European incident of the Cold War. The U.S.S.R. provoked the Berlin Crisis with demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin—culminating with the city's ‘de facto’ partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.
American People: Homogenized Society
Prosperity- After world War II, America’s economy greatly prospered. America was going through the “Golden of Age” of capitalism, a period of economic expansion, stable prices, low unemployment, and rising standards of living that continued until 1973.
The United States remained the world’s predominant industrial power.
Consumer Culture- In a consumer culture, the measure of freedom became the ability to gratify market desires. Being able to own a Ford car or have a TV at home, meant “freedom” to many people. American society began to value consumer goods. Low interest rates and spread of credit cards encouraged Americans to borrow money to purchase goods, which then became an industry/business and made the economy “prosper”.
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Civil Rights Movement
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.
The African-American Civil Rights Movement were social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them.
This Movement lasted from the 1950’s all the way into the 1960’s.
The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956.
During the McCarthy era, thousands of Americans were falsely accused of being communists or communist sympathizers.
(Joseph McCarthy, Founder of McCarthyism)
The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.
The court was both applauded and criticized for bringing an end to racial segregation in the United States, incorporating the Bill of Rights (14th amendment).
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