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Segregated Buses
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott) -
"Charlie"
It comes from “Việt Nam Cộng-sản”, which just means “Vietnamese Communists”. (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/why-the-viet-cong-were-called-charlie-during-the-vietnam-war/) -
Elvis Presley
Presley had a “sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influence and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time; he ushered in a whole new era of American music and popular culture.” He was able to integrate rhythm and blues, gospel, and country music, and created what today is called rock. (https://www.lagrange.edu/resources/pdf/citations/2012/11_Wallace_History.pdf) -
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, the organization splintered at that convention amidst rivalry between factions seeking to impose national leadership and direction, and disputing "revolutionary" positions on, among other issues, the Vietnam War and Black Power. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society) -
Vietnam War
After 1945, American involvement in Vietnam was driven and shaped by the Cold War. American foreign policy was largely shaped by the Truman Doctrine. Outlined in 1947, the Truman Doctrine argued that communism must be contained and governments susceptible to communist infiltration and takeover should be assisted. (https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/us-involvement-in-vietnam/#:~:text=After%201945%2C%20American%20involvement%20in,and%20takeover%20should%20be%20assisted) -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. (https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/black-panthers) -
Anti-War Protests
On October 21, 1967, one of the most prominent anti-war demonstrations took place, as some 100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; around 30,000 of them continued in a march on the Pentagon later that night. Author Norman Mailer, chronicled the events in a book “The Armies of the Night,” which
was published the following year to widespread acclaim. (https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests) -
Robert Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and his remarkably public evolution of the Democratic Party to one of the leading voices of its progressive wing made him an icon of that hope. Now widely recognized as a champion of racial and political liberalism, Bobby Kennedy didnt start everything. The younger brother of John F. Kennedy, Bobby served, in his capacity as attorney general, as his brother’s chief political enforcer, strategist, and confidant. (https://www.cnn.com/) -
The Space Race
With the moon landing on July 20, 1969, America effectively “won” the space race that began with Sputnik's launch 12 years earlier. But public interest in the space program soon waned. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/learning/lesson-plans/explore-the-space-race-with-the-new-york-timess-archive.html#:~:text=With%20the%20moon%20landing%20on,one%20has%20been%20there%20since.) -
Bob Hope
Bob Hope and his 1970 USO troupe take their annual Christmas tour of military bases around the world. (https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+hope+christmas+special+1970&rlz=1CANEHU_enUS965&oq=bobo+hope+christmas+&aqs=chrome.7.69i57j0i13l8.7203j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on) -
US/Chinese Ping Pong Match
Ping-pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of ping-pong players between the United States and Republic of China in the early 1970s. The event paved the way for President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972 and has been seen as a key turning point in relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong_diplomacy) -
Watergate Scandal
With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is believed that, if he had not done so, he would have been impeached by the House and removed from office by a trial in the Senate. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal#:~:text=With%20his%20complicity%20in%20the,a%20trial%20in%20the%20Senate.) -
Apple Computers
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, computer software and online services. On April 1, 1976, they debuted the Apple 1, a desktop computer that came as a single motherboard, pre-assembled, unlike other personal computers of that era. The Apple II was introduced about a year later. (https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-apple-computers) -
AIDS
AIDS is a human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Ultimately, HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system and AIDS is a term that can only be used when HIV has caused severe damage to the immune system. -
Iran-Contra Affair
A secret operation in which the US government secretly sent weapons to a known enemy and sent financial aid to a rebel force. Both of those actions were illegal. ... A Shi'ite Muslim organization known as Hezbollah took American hostages.