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4 minute mile
It used to be a bearier untill roger bannister beat it now it is a common goal for people who run -
Disneyland
Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. -
Federal Highway Act
It was a bill to make it better and easier to travel from place to place for military vehicles. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques -
Little rock nine
this was about 9 black kids an all white school and they had the national guard protect these kids. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Russa is giving nukes to Cuba and could of bombed the U,S.A -
Civil Rights
Blacks want Equal rights -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement. -
RFK
Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician, who served as a United States Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968 -
Wood Stock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, called 3 Days of Peace & Music. -
Watergate Scandal
People were breaking in to a water plant -
sears tower
Made the sears tower -
test tube baby
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful test tube baby was born in Great Britain. -
Jones town Masscare
918 people died by kool aid with cyanide -
The Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two United States Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, -
Ozone hole
Found a hole in the Ozone -
Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Ride became the first American woman to enter into low Earth orbit in 1983 -
Mir
Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, owned at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia -
Exxon Valdez
An oil spill in Alaska -
tiananmen square
tiananmen square was a shooting in china for students protesting -
hubble space telescope
a telescope that is in low orbit -
Rodney Glen King
Rodney Glen King was an African-American construction worker who became nationally known after being beaten with excessive force by Los Angeles police officers. -
O.J simsons
O.J Simson was acused for killing some people -
Dolly
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell -
columbine shooting
The first big school shooting -
Shoe bomber
Richard Reid attempted to detonate explosives packed into the shoes he was wearing, while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. -
DC Sniper
The Beltway sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that took place during three weeks in October 2002 in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three other victims were critically injured in several locations throughout the Washington, D.C. -
virginia tech massacre
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Seung-Hui Cho,shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate shootings about two hours apart before committing suicide -
Fort Hood
a base were corps are keep -
9/11
people flew planes in to the twin towers
