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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States began a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries -
Korean War
The Korean War was a civil war between North Korea and South Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty signed in Warsaw, which included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
H-Bomb
After the Soviet atomic bomb success, the idea of building a hydrogen bomb received new impetus in the United States. In this type of bomb, deuterium and tritium are fused into helium, thereby releasing energy. -
Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
MCCarthy Hearings
The McCarthy Hearings were inquiries made by Senator Joseph McCarthy into allegations of Communist subversion and espionage in the U.S. government and defense industries in the early 1950's. -
Brown v. Board of Education
was 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. -
Murder of Emit Till
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him flirting to a cashier in her family's grocery store -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
Little Rock 9
Nine African American students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
Greensboro Sit-In
act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter -
U-2
Incident during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Election of JFK
The 44th presidential election in which John F. Kennedy won the presidency. -
Peace Corps
an organization sponsored by the US government that sends young people to work as volunteers in developing countries. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. -
Freedom rides
a group of northern and southern civil rights activists who sought to end racial segregation on interstate transportation -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Equal Pay Act
A United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex -
March on Washington
Advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Martin Luther king delivered his I have a dream speech -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Freedom Summer
Was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
24th Amendment
Prohibits Congress and the states from establishing a Poll Tax during Federal elections -
Civil Rights Act 1964
The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
March on Selma
3 Protest Marches African-American citizens exercising their constitutional right to vote -
Voting Rights Act
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Watts Riot
A group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965. Over thirty people died in the Watts riots, which were the first of several serious clashes between black people and police in the late 1960s. -
Loving v. Virginia
It was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Assacination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Stonewall Riots
They were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. -
Kent State University
Kent State students held an anti-war protest. That evening several incidents occurred, including rocks and bottles being thrown at police officers and the lighting of bonfires. -
Establishment of the EPA
It is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. -
Paris Peace Accords
Was intended to establish peace in Vietnam and to end the Vietnam War. It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam.