Study 12: Postwar America and the Social Movements with 12 free online flashcards. Review key terms, definitions, and concepts with this interactive flashcard deck.
What did the GI Bill provide?
The GI Bill assisted veterans with college tuition, job training, unemployment benefits, and home loans, helping expand the middle class. Discriminatory administration limited access for many Black veterans.
How does economic growth differ from economic equality?
Economic growth measures the expansion of total production, while economic equality concerns how income, wealth, and opportunity are distributed.
What did Brown v. Board of Education decide?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) declared state-sponsored school segregation unconstitutional, although implementation was slow and often met with violent resistance.
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and federally assisted programs. Title VII also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 protect voting?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices and authorized federal oversight in jurisdictions with histories of disenfranchisement.
What did Black Power demand?
Black Power demanded community control, political independence, economic justice, cultural pride, and protection from police violence. It broadened freedom beyond formal integration.
What were major goals of the women’s movement?
The women’s movement pursued legal equality and social transformation, addressing unequal pay, occupational segregation, reproductive control, education, and expectations about family and work.
What did Chicano signify as a political identity?
The Chicano movement used Chicano as a political identity emphasizing pride, community organization, and resistance to discrimination while pursuing labor, educational, voting, housing, and cultural rights.
Who helped organize agricultural workers through the NFWA?
César Chávez and Dolores Huerta helped organize agricultural workers through the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.
What political principles guided Red Power activism?
Indigenous activists emphasized tribal sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights, cultural survival, and control over land and resources rather than simple inclusion as an ethnic minority.
What authority did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution grant?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed in August 1964, gave President Johnson broad authority to expand U.S. military operations in Vietnam.
Why was the Tet Offensive politically significant?
The Tet Offensive undermined U.S. claims that victory in Vietnam was near, weakening public confidence in the Johnson administration despite communist military setbacks in many locations.