civil rights
What was the Truman Doctrine
peace treaty between United States and foreign nations after WW2
yalta
Leaders from the United States Britain, and Soviet Union discussed after ww2 to rebuild
watergate
Nixon bugged the Oval Office to try to gain information on the election he resisided
containment
Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps after Pearl Harbor to protect the United States until the war was over
emmit till
15-year-old black African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955
freedom summer
the year people were freed from liberation camps
bay of pigs
Slang from Southerners that was racist toward African Americans
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba threatened to launch missiles into the United States. JFK dealt with the issue in 1961
Little Rock 9
9 African Americans who were allowed into and a white school
great society
people used propaganda to try to downplay the Holocaust using various media such as posters and videos
stone wall
The huge wall between German East and West, one side communism one side democracy
Civil Rights Act of 1964
laws that banned discrimination in segregation in the whole United States
mccarthyism
trade with other nations
southern mainfesto
ideas and rituals Southerners performed that represented the true violence of the South towards African Americans
Brigham 1963
The civil rights movement that changed the nation for the better finally advanced for African Americans