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Martin Luther King,Jr.
An American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
Atomic bomb
On January 31st Truman announced that, in accordance with his responsibility to see that the country was able to defend itself against any possible aggressor, he had directed the Atomic Energy Commission 'to continue with its work on all forms of atomic energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb'. -
McCarthyism
An era under Senator Joseph Mccarthy. Mccarthyism is the fear of communism, It was a time when they made unfair allegations in order to restrict political critism. Numerous innocent people were accused of being coomunists. -
The First Credit Card
According to a representative from Diners Club, the story began in 1950when a man named Frank McNamara had a business dinner in New York's Major's Cabin Grill. When the bill arrived, Frank realized he'd forgotten his wallet. He managed to find his way out of the pickle, but he decided there should be an alternative to cash. -
World Wrestling entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company that deals primarily in professional wrestling, They sometimes do movies and video games as well. They are the top proffesional wrestling company in the world. -
Puerto Rico&Us
On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States. Puerto Rico is now a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States -
Brown v. 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 to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. -
The murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was an 14 years old African American who got murdered for flirting with a white woman. The woman husband and her brother beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. -
Civil right
A worldwide series of political movements for equality. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. -
BUS BOYCOTT
A seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Vietnam War
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. -
The "Little Rock Nine"
A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
The space race
Soviet Union successfully launched sputnik I. The space race was a competititon between Soviet Union and United States trying to out do one another in space exploration. -
Fidel Castro
A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976.Politically a Marxist-Leninist, under his administration the Republic of Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and businesses were nationalized, and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society. Internationally, Castro was the Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement. -
Hippie Culture
The hippies’ primary tenet was that life was about being happy, not about what others thought you should be. They believed the dominant mainstream culture was corrupt and inherently flawed and sought to replace it with a Utopian society. -
George Wallace
An American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat.Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,848 days -
Four Little Girls
The Alabama Klan targeted Dr. King's 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham for its spiritual importance to the Movement. A 500 pound bomb was placed in the basement. It exploded right before Morning Service.The explosion ripped a 20 foot crater and damaged cars and buildings down the street. -
Assassination of JFK
John F Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He negotiated the first weapon treaty in history. He was assassinated on 11-22-1963 -
Malcom X killed
Malcom X was assassianted by blacks muslims on his way to an address.He was an Afrrican-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He was a leader of the Nation of Islam movement. -
Niel Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. -
Woodstock
It was a music and art fair held in Bethel, New York; it lasted from the 15 to the 18. The towns woodstock and wallkill did not allow the festival to take place but they used a farm to have the festival. they had a festival even though it was raining and it turned mudddy. -
Fashion 1970
Began with a continuation of the mini skirts and go go boots,bell-bottoms the mods, and the androgynous hippie look from the mid-late 1960s, was soon sharply characterized by several distinct fashion trends that have left an indelible image of the decade commemorated in popular culture. -
Richard Nixon
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee(DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. -
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. It's known for making microsoft office and the Xbox systems. -
Apple
Apple is a company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company right after samsung. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days after Muslim students who supported the Iranian revolution took control of the US Embassy in Tehran. The Iranians released the hostages when Reagan was inaugurated. Jimmy Carter lost the electiion due to this crisis. -
H.I.V
The human immunodeficiency virus (H.I.V) is a lentivirus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. -
John Lennon's murder
An English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City. -
Ronald Reagon
Reaganomics is the economic policies of Ronald Reagon, he tried deducting taxes and promotion of unrestricted free-market activty. Ronald maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. He gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa. -
DELL
Dell inc. is a private computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs and supports computers and related products and services. It's mostly known as schools computers from the 80s -
Cold war
The cold war was political hostility between the US and Soviet union. They didn't engage in actual war, it was threats, and propangada. -
Challenger
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It is the worst accident in the history of the U.S. space program -
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
n American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. -
Exxon Valdez
Oil tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 millions gallons of oil. It is the largest oil spill in us history. The Exxon Valdez was repaired and renamed the Sea River Mediterranean. -
The fall of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989. The symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990. -
War Protests
(Antiwar) People that oppose to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.They make signs and peacefully boycott wars. -
fashion 1990
The genesis of a sweeping shift in the western world: the beginning of the adoption of tattoos, body piercings aside from ear piercing and to a lesser extent, other forms of body modification such as branding. -
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to the Persian Gulf War. Saddam Hussein was not forced from power and in 2003 George Bush demanding him to step down and he refused which led to the second persian gulf war. -
Bill Clinton
Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president from the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. -
Hate Crimes
Of the 7,947 hate crime incidents reported to the FBI in 1995, sixty percent - 4,831- were motivated by race. Of these, 2,988 were anti-black, 1,226 were anti-white, 355 were directed against Asian-Americans or Pacific Islanders, 221 were directed against multi-racial groups, and 41 were directed against Native Americans or Alaskan Natives.
