What was Mao role in starting the Korean War? With Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong fighting over the control of the Korean Peninsula and after seeing the success of the Chinese fall to communism he felt encouraged. He also offered troops to North Korea. 21. What were some of the actions that the US took following the Korean War?
Most of the African Americans were just slaves to the Whites. The African Americans didn’t usually have any say in their lives because they were unequal to the Whites. The African Americans were forced to sharecrop because they could not afford their own land. Their pay was less than minimal. The African Americans were treated unfairly and they were the first group of people that were laid off during any economic downturn.
INTRODUCTION: Before 1945, the white attitude to blacks was very different to how it is today. A lot needed changing, and it took a large amount of protests and court cases to do so. For example, blacks had no say in elections, and this was enforced with the grandfather clause (where they had to prove that men of two generations before them had been eligible to vote, which they couldn’t) or the literacy clause (where they had to prove they could read and write, which most of them couldn’t). Discrimination in education and employment had led to social deprivation, and many blacks in the North were living in ghettos. PUBLIC OPINION: During the war, black Americans did not approve of the slogan of the war that focused on equality and liberty, as to them it seemed hypocritical, because all they received was discrimination.
In Brown v. Board of Education it said that everyone was separate but equal. Many states abandoned their schools because they did not want to integrate them. By 1968, the supreme-court had ordered the desegregation laws be put into action as soon as possible. At the time of the law passage no one knew how big the effect would be. However, many white people did not want to send their children to school with African Americans so they either moved or had a protest.
One way African Americans were denied rights is by not being able to sit in the same section of the bus as White people. For example, Rosa Parks tried to sit on the White section of the bus, which resulted in her getting arrested for doing so. This is important because it shows how African Americans were treated unequally. One method people used to try to solve this was by boycotting. For example, after the Rosa Parks
The iron curtain was a dividing line between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Eastern Europe fell under control of the Soviet Union and took on a communist system. Document 2 states, “I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting subjugation [domination] by armed minorities or by outside pressure. Should we fail..the effect will be far reaching to the West.” President Truman delivered a speech to Congress proposing $400 million to
The 1960s-1970s was a time period that was very important to American Society. It helped in many aspects but also destroyed in other aspects. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson was put to charge. His administration did a few things effectively and vice versa. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration effectively made the :Great Society” and then tackled the growing issue of poverty through this program but unfortunately could not help the gender discrimination of this time period.
The Korean War was the first proxy war as part of the cold war. The main outcome was that a major change could be in US foreign policy. They became more involved in South East Asia with the founding of SEATO and diverted from the previously used policy of containment to rollback. Due to it being a limited war and being overshadowed by World War II, there was not as much involvement by the civil population in the United States. Twenty years later though, during the Vietnam War, the awareness by the US citizens was a lot higher, probably also related to the now widely spread television.
The Interstate Commerce Commission helped the civil rights by saying that everyone can sit wherever they want on a bus even if they look different or believe in something else then most people. Discrimination in housing was another problem in the 1960’s. Many blacks lived in poor areas, because most banks, realtors, and homeowners wouldn’t sell nice homes to the blacks. 57 percent of all non-white housing was below the standards for a good home. John F. Kennedy ‘s Executive Order #11063 tried to have the blacks housings fair to the whites housings.
* 38th parallel – A board between communist North Korea and non- communist South Korea. * Douglass MacArthur- UN military force general who took Inchon launching plan to attack western coast of Korea. * Dwight Eisenhower- chief executive after Truman. * Domino Theory- theory that if one non communist nation in southeast Asia fell to communism, then other nations would fall like a row of dominoes. * Bay of Pigs- operation