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Creation is Israel
On May 14, 1948, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel. establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. the jewish state was estabished in Palestine. -
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after WW2 to strengthen international ties between member states. more specifically between the United States and Europe. -
Korean War
War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. The war was also called the Korean Conflict was between the united nations, which was supported by the United States and the communist Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea -
Domino Theory
theory from 1950s to 1980s that one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow. theory was proposed by President Dwight D Eisenhower. -
Brown v. Board of Education
A Landmark United States supreme court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Warsaw pact
A military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe. It was Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO. it included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Montgomery Bus boycott
A seminal event in The civil rights movement was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
Group of nine African Americans students enrolled in Little Rock Central High school in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by little rock crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school. -
Launching of Sputnik
The worlds very first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union. the satellite was about the size of a beach ball only measuring 58 cm and weighing about 183.9 pounds taking about 98 minutes to orbit the earth. -
U-2 spy incident
Occurred during the cold war on may 1, 1960. during the presidency of Dwight D. Esienhowerand the premiership of the Nikita Khrushchev, when a United states spy plane was shot down went caught in soviet airspace. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
Occurring from Feb 1- July 25 1960 were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth Department store chain to remove its policy of racial segregation. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961. Lasted from April 17 to April 19, 1961. -
Freedom Riders
A person who challenged racial laws in the american south in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designing that seating in buses be segregated by race. -
Berlin Wall
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that seperated East and West Berlin from 1961-1989. It was built by the government of what was then East Germany to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Occurring from October 16-28, 1962, was a confrontation between the united states and the soviet union of the presence of missile sites in Cuba. Also known as one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war. -
"I have a dream" speech
Public speech delivwred by american civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on washington for jobs and freedom in which he calls for an end to racism in the Untied states. -
JFK assassination
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. although there are many suspicions, no one to this day is quite sure who killed him. -
Freedom Summer
Also Known as the Mississippi summer project was a volunteer campaign in the united states launched to register as many American American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Landmark Civil Rights and US labor law in the united states that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resloution
Also Known as the Southeast Asia Resolution, was a joint Resolution that the united states congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X was shot and killed at 39 years old by Black Muslims as he was about to address the organization of Afro-American Unity and the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. -
Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL
Around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery March when state troopers brutally assaulted peaceful civil rights marchers. -
Voting rights act of 1965
a law passed at the time of the civil rights movement which eliminated various devices such as literacy tests that had traditionally been used to keep blacks from voting. -
Executive order 11246: affirmative action
requires contractors to "take affirmative action" to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated fairly during employment regardless of race, color, religion or sex. -
Loving v. Virginia
Civil rights decision of the untied States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
MLK assassination
At 6:05 pm on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Civil rights act of 1968
defines housing discrimination as the "refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, sex or origin." -
Woodstock
A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival. -
Kent State
A controversial incident in 1970, in which unarmed students demonstrating against united states involvement in vietnam war were fired on by panicky troop of the national guard. -
Vietnam War
Was a cold war conflict pitting the us and the remnants of the french colonial government in south vietnam against the indigenous but communist vietnamese independent movement, the viet minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. Lasted from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975.
