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Joseph McCarthy- McCarthyism
The 1950 events sharply increased the sense of threat from Communism in the U.S.oseph McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy was a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. He is best known for making accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies against people working in sensitive sectors of the U.S. government. -
Ku Klux Klan
They were against black people. They are for the burning of the cross. They would wear these masks to hide their face, and go kill a black person. -
Malcolm X
After his parole he became a leader of The Nation of Islam. Malcolm X was one of the most prominent black nationalist leaders in the United States. He advocated black pride, and was known all over the world as an African-American and human rights leader. -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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. The white and black kids where segregate. They weren't allow to go to the same school together. -
Vietnam War
It was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The U.S. government involved in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, -
Civil Rights Movement
The first March from Selma to Montgomery was held on this day. Also known as "Bloody Sunday." 600 marchers, protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and ongoing exclusion from the electoral process, were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. -
Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy
He was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He died early the next day at age 42. Kennedy, the father of 11 children, was buried at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery near the grave of his brother John. -
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The U.S. got an invitation to play China at China and these were the first Americans to set foot in China since 1949. It was more than going to play the game. We was one of the first to enter a communist countryand who was non-comunist. -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
Break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.His long political career began in 1947 when he was elected to the House of Representatives. By 1952, Nixon had been chosen as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate, but not before he was embroiled in a scandal that led to the infamous Checkers Speech. -
HIV/ AIDS
First case of AIDS was found in San Francisco. Started because of the Hippie Movement. HIV is found in the following body fluids of an infected person. HIV cannot be transmitted through sweat, saliva or urine. -
Cold War
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical, blood-thirsty rule of his own country.
