N search for the American dream part 2
- Created by: Mahahmad12
- Created on: 02-01-24 15:18
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- In search for the American Dream: (1917 -96)
- Further conflict during WWII
- Foreign policy after WWI: isolationism, financial help from US, less open to immigrants
- Foreign policy after WWII: abandoned isolationism, wanted to a leading country, founding member of UN
- Cold War: period of tension between USSR + USA. Domestic; increase in military spending, foreign; arms race, policy of containment
- Second red scare (947-54)
- Took place after WWII, senator McCarthy’s role in the Red Scare, leading investigations and false accusations of communism in gov
- Causes: ideological conflict between USSR + US, spread of communism, impact of WWII
- Impacts: heightened fear and paranoia, social divisons
- Korean war
- What was it? Fought to determine future of Korea Peninsula with North Korea aiming to reunify coney under communism
- Why would America want to be involved? Containment of communism, global influence; wanted to demonstrate its leadership
- Impact on US: a lot of casualties - 36.000 American soldiers, global role - emerged as local military power
- Vietnam war
- What happened? Started because of Cold War and division of Vietnam, r had guerilla tactics
- Consequences: loss of life, substantial financial cost, lasting impact
- Impact on US: oss of public trust - oss of faith in gov, economic impact
- Influence s on political landscape
- Paranoia about communism: led to a significant curb on civil liberties, people had their freedom of speech
- Liberalism: increasing violence against black civil rights made people uneasy, politicians produced the idea of positive discrimination
- Counter-culture: hippies - simple way of life, lived in communal societies. Radical student groups - wanted to change society y producing a more equal world in USA
- Decline in government’s confidence
- Main issues - media - lost support in gov, watergate scandal: White House and Nixon guilty for robbery, protests, civil rights
- New direction: 1981: on Aldo Reagan elected, old-fashioned republican views on welfare and gov intervention, election was a reaction against liberalism
- Further conflict during WWII
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