Cold War
In this speech, Winston Churchill warned of the danger of war in a world with nuclear weapons.
The Iron Curtain speech (a.k.a. The Sinews of Peace)
The Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional in these places.
Public Schools
"Fortunate Son" is a song about rich Americans dodging the draft, which left the poor to fight in this war.
The Vietnam War
Near the beginning of the letter, MLK compares himself to this Biblical figure because he left his own town to spread an important message.
The Apostle Paul
World War II ended when Japan surrendered, after the United States used this new and destructive technology.
The Atomic Bomb
This was the US strategy during the Cold War. It was guided by the assumption that communists wanted to spread communism all over the world.
Containment
After Rosa Parks' arrest, the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery Alabama led a boycott of this service.
Busses
This group of people protested the Vietnam war, engaged in drug culture and advocated "free love."
Hippies
MLK said that one of the most important things to do before a non-violent protest is to prepare oneself to accept blows without retaliating and to peacefully to jail if needed, which he called this.
Self-Purification
The Space Race was a facet of this larger conflict.
the Cold War
During the Cold War, schools sometimes had this type of drill, where students were told to "duck and cover."
Atomic Bomb drills
President Eisenhower sent the national guard to Little Rock, Arkansas in order to protect these people from an angry mob.
Black high school students (the Little Rock Nine)
In the 50's, in part because of the "baby boom," Americans moved from the country and the city into these types of communities that featured rows of similar houses.
Suburbs
MLK says that part of the criteria for determining whether a law is unjust is whether it "degrades human personality," by which he means that an unjust law denies that humans are made in this.
The image of God
America "won" the Space Race by sending the first men to ever do this.
Walk on the Moon
These two wars were both "proxy wars," where America did not fight the Soviet Union directly but tried to stop the spread of communism around the world.
The Korean War and the Vietnam War
Jackie Robinson faced discrimination as the first black person to play this.
Major League Baseball
In the 1950s, lots of people had babies (the Baby Boom) and American culture celebrated the family, in large part because this conflict was finally over.
World War II
MLK says the church should be this, meaning that it should seek to transform culture rather than conform to it.
a thermostat
President Eisenhower spent millions of dollars to build this system, which he hoped would make it easier for troops and supplies to move across the US in case of nuclear war.
the interstate highway system