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Forest Gump
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disaloyal subverion treason without proper reguard of edivence -
The Korean War
Korean war began when some 75,000 soliders from north korean peoples army poured across 38th parrel the boundary between the soviet-backed democratic peoples republic of korea to the north and the pro-western republic of korea to the south -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
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 unconstitutional -
Bus Boycott
In Montogomery, Alabama Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus for a white man -
Malcom X
He was the spokeman for the national islam. And so got arrested and killed by the black muslims -
Emmett Till's
In1955,14years old emmett Till was taken from his relatives home,beaten,and then shot in the head.His body was then thrown in the river. -
Little Rock Nine
Were the nine aferican-american student involed in the desegration of little rock central high school -
Space Race
The soviet union lunched its first satelite name sputnik to be hurled into orbit around earth.Sputnik was actually no larger than a beach ball and sent meaningless signals back to earth,but it had profound effect on the thinking of citizens and governments around the globe. -
Civil Rights Movement
movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens -
Assassination of John F. Kenndy
John died as he rode in a motorcade though dealay plaza in downtown Dallas,Texas. -
Civil Rights Act
This movement was mainly to intergrate the people throughout the south and, end the Jim Crow Laws. -
War Protests
Themovement aganist U.S. involment in the vietnam war began small-among peace activist and leftist intellectuals on college campuses - but gained national prominence in1965, after the United Staes began bombing North Vietnam in earnest. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. -
Woodstock
A three day concert which rolled into a fouth day that involed lots of sex,drugs,and roll n roll-plus alot of mud -
Disco Music/Culture
The disco sound, style and ethos has its roots in the late 1960s. New York City blacks, gays, heterosexuals, women and Hispanics adopted several traits from the hippies and psychedelia -
Jimmy Carter
He was a presidential term in the years 1977-1981 -
Hippie Culture (Music,Clothing,Belife)
When there is a rainbow hippis come out with all the different colors.Peace Love Harmony,Freedon,&Community is their motto -
HIV/AIDS
Micheal gottieb was the first report gey man with penumocystic carinii pneumonia (PCP) -
John Lennon’s Murder
John life was cut short by 4 bullets from an assassins's gun.He died at the age of 32 years old but he was a hero. -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
It was ab out 69 days after his presidency and a white man tired to pull out a gun and kill Ronald Ragan -
cold war
Between the United Staes and the Soivet Union,a rivary that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century -
Rodney King Riots
it was sparked by the police officers who brutally beaten Rodney King an African American male
