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Brown vs Board of Education
Linda Brown was denied the attendance to an all white school that was close to her home. Brown vs Board of education was a united states supreme court case that made public schools that were separated by race was unconstitutional. This case integrated all public schools -
MLK Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott started when Rosa parks wouldn't give up her seat in the colored section on a bus to a white man in Rosa was was arrested and fined. After this African Americans boycotted riding buses. The boycott was a protest against the policy of racial segregation on public transportation. This boycott lasted 381 days. (December 5, 1955- December 20,1956)
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was when there were soviet missiles and bombs in Cuba. This was a 13 day stand off. JFK ordered a navel bloackade around cuba and then the war ended when the soviet agreed to withdraw their missles from cuba and the US withdraw from turey. JFK died a year later. (Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962) -
JFK assassination
JFK, his wife and Governor Connally and his wife traveled thrugh downtown Dallas . They were on their way to the trade mart were JFK had to speak at a luncheon. Once they got to dealey plaza gunfire started. JFK was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald. He died 30 minutes after the shooting.
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Black Panther Party
The black panther party was funded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. This was created to protect African american neighborhoods from police brutality. -
Ping Pong diplomacy
When Nixon was trying to get on china's good side he sent ping pong players to compete against the Chinese players. By doing this he was able to work out foreign affairs that no other president could do. He was the first president to go the china. -
Watergate Scandal
The watergate Scandal was nixon's administrations attempt to cover up the burglary of the democratic national committee headquarters at the watergate office and apartment complex in washington. They put wiretaps and tried to steal government documents. This was all for Nixon's reelection. Nixon then resigned.
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Roe vs Wade
This case was brought up concerning a women's right to have an abortion. This case gave women the right to have an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. It gave the women right to privacy concerning their bodies under the 14th amendment. -
The end of Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a war against America and South Vietnam and North Vietnam and Vietcong. The cause of this war was to contain communism. The War ended with the Paris Peace Accords agreement. This agreement between the United States and North Vietnam said that the US would pull out all of its remaining troops from the country, in return for all of the Americans being held of prisoners of war to be released. -
Gerald Ford assassination attempt
In sacramento, california a woman named Lynette Fromme tried to assassinate president Ford. She raised a .45 caliber handgun towards him while he was walking near the california capitol. Before she was able to fire a shot secret service agents tackled her. He also had a second assassination attempt 17 days later by jane moore. -
Iran hostage Crisis
This was when Jimmy carter allowed the shah to enter the united states for cancer treatment (October, 1979). This made the revolutionaries in Iran mad. So armed students seized the US embassy in tehran and held 52 americans hostage. They demanded that the shah be returned to Iran. Carter refused this demand and the hostages were held captive for 444 days. They were finally released January 20, 1981. -
Shooting of Ronald Reagan
Reagan & 3 others were shot while he was leaving a peaking engagement in washington. They were shot by John Hinckley. After firing the shots he was pinned down by secret service agents.
