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Korean war
Soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
McCarthyism
Witch-hunt and anti communist hysteria. It was mainly used against Democrats associated with the New Deal. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and its principal ally. Began after the rise of Ho Chi Minh and hes communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam. -
Brown vs. 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 unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
FFourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 24, 1955 when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him, and shot him in the head. -
Civil Rights Movement
Guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race. Montgomery Bus Boycott- when thte blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Space Race
The Space Race involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, sub-orbital and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and piloted voyages to the Moon. -
Cold War
Some progress was made in easing Cold War tensions when Kennedy was president. In 1963, the two sides reached a major arms control agreement. They agreed to ban tests of nuclear weapons above ground, under water, and in space. They also established a direct telephone line between the white house and the kremlin. -
George Wallace
George Wallace became assistant attorney general of Alabama before being elected as a member of the Alabama Legislature in 1947. In June 1963, Wallace blocked the enrollment of African American students at the University of Alabama. Similar actions in Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile made him a national figure and one of the country's leading figures against the civil rights movement. -
Assassination of JFK
Crowds of excited people lined the streets of Dallas when gunshots sounded through the plaza. Bullets struck the prsidents neck and head. The governor was also hit in the chest. -
Martin Luther King Jr
In 1965, he led a march in Selma, Alabama, to increase the percentage of African American voters in Alabama. Again, King was arrested. Again, the marchers faced attacks by the police. Finally, President Johnson ordered the National Guard to protect the demonstrators from attack, and King was able to complete the long march from Selma to the stat -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Spokesman for the Nation of Islam until breaking with the group shortly before his 1965 assassination. -
war protest
Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society attracted a widening base of support over the next three years, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops proved that war's end was nowhere in sight. -
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan stepped up to Robert Kennedy and started shooting. Sirhan was able to fire eight bullets before being resistrained. Kennedy was shot just below his right ear. -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture. -
Hippie Culture
Countercultural movement that rejected morals of mainstream American life. Hippies felt alienated from middle class society and developed their own distinctive lifestyle. favoured long hair and casual dress. promoted use of hallucinogenic dugs. -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran. President Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," and "the United States will not yield to blackmail. -
Reganomics
The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and control the money supply in order to reduce inflation. -
HIV/AIDS
The world first became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s. Growing numbers of gay men in New York and California were developing rare types of pneumonia and cancer, and a wasting disease was spreading in Uganda. Doctors reported AIDS symptoms under different names, including “gay-related immune deficiency” and “slim,” but by 1985, they reported them all over the world.
