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U.S. History Thematic Essay Review
According to the State of New

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1. Foreign Policy
Post 1950: Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis, Marshall Plan, Vietnam War, Cold War
Pre 1950: Lend - Lease Acts, Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations, Panama Canal
Pre 1900: Mexican American War, Spanish American War & Acquisition of the Philippines, Monroe Doctrine & Roosevelt Corollary
2. Change
Social: Social movements / organizations: NOW, AFL-CIO, NAACP, Labor, SNCC, Muckrakers, Women’s rights
Political: Amendments to …show more content…

For example- no monopolies, no foreign trade, etc.

This policy protected American trading rights China. It kept China from colonization. However, China was still at the mercy of economic imperialism by foreign powers.

Vietnam War

North Vietnam was communist. and the South Vietnam was Democratic. The Soviet Union and the China supported the North. U.S supported the South Vietnam. Vietnam was a proxy war.
Agreement called for elections 1956. Elections never happened and Diem and Americans feared that communist groups would win. The Domino Theory was activated as well at the containment. U.S dente troops to help Diem’s government. Lastly, Ho Chi Minh Trail supplied route for Communists.
The result was the U.S withdrawal in 1975. Ho Chi Minh was admired by people and Americans were seen as imperalists Americans went back home against the war.

Korean War

The Soviets forced a communist government on North Korea.This led to the formation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948. The U.S forced capitalist democracy on South Korea, led to the formation of the Republic of Korea in …show more content…

Relations with China worsen and Armed forces were racially integrated. Military increase worldwide relations with Japan improved. Future presidents were able to send military into combat without

World War II was a leading cause for the Civil rights Movement. African Americans were denied housing in neighborhoods and only offered low-paying jobs. The little Rock Nine weren’t allowed to enter the school.

The NAACP became the most powerful Civil Rights organization in U.S and wanted to challenge segregation in the courts.
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and overturned “separate but equal.”
Civil Rights Movement ended legal segregation, protected Civil Rights, increased pride and racial identity and African Americans were able to vote, go to college.
Political Change:

Immigration

The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920.
From the 17th to 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of African slaves came to America against their will. 1882 Chinise exclusion Act restricted immigration.
Multicultural

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