1950s & Cold War
What did Brown v. Board of Education (1954) do?
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Levittown
U.S.S. Indianapolis
torpedoed; most crew eaten by sharks
First Earth Day year
1970
"Don't play with me, 'cause you'll play with _____"
fire
Technology caused migration to Sunbelt
affordable air conditioning
Rachel Carson's 1962 novel
Silent Spring
What were kamikazes?
Japanese suicide planes
Recipients of MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Eight white clergymen in city
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What was Tootle?
Kids' book emphasizing 1950s conformity
August 9, 1974 - why a big day?
Richard Nixon resigned
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Japanese internment camps
Partitioned city in Europe but US Airlift & candy bars
Berlin, Germany after WWII
Name of route Viet Cong took to move supplies & people to South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Lying senator behind Red Scare of 1950s
Joseph McCarthy
Churchill said this had fallen across Europe (March 1946)
"A date that will live in infamy."
December 7, 1941
court-martialed for My Lai massacre
Lt. William Calley
This technology enabled 98% of casualties to survive
helicopter
Dr. Jonas Salk
polio vaccine
Why did Montgomery Bus Boycott end?
City was losing too much MONEY! ($3K/day for 13 months)
Enola Gay
Bomber plane on Hiroshima
Where (city) is Haight-Ashbury?
San Francisco
Kent State University, May 4, 1970
4 unarmed college student protestors killed