Cold War & Space Race
This global tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union never turned into direct fighting.
Cold War
This 34th president was elected in 1952, led the U.S. during part of the Cold War and supported interstate highways.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The fight to gain equal rights for all citizens regardless of race.
Civil Rights
A change or addition to the Constitution.
amendment
This organization works to advance the rights of Hispanic Americans.
LULAC
This competition pushed the U.S. and USSR to build more and more powerful weapons.
Arms Race
This president challenged Americans to reach the moon before 1970.
President Kennedy
The enforced separation of racial groups.
segregation
This Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This civil rights leader helped found the American GI Forum.
Hector P. Garcia
This U.S. agency was created to lead space exploration.
NASA
This president helped push through major Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The ending of segregation.
desegregation
This order desegregated the U.S. military.
Executive Order 9981
This leader helped organize the Freedom Rides and founded the Congress of Racial Equality
James L. Farmer
This Soviet satellite shocked the U.S. when it became the first to orbit Earth.
Sputnik
This civil rights leader is famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech.
This 1964 law banned discrimination in public places and jobs.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Texas case challenged discrimination against Mexican American students, ending segregated schools in Texas
This Texas politician was one of the first Mexican Americans elected to Congress.
Henry B. Gonzalez
This Apollo 7 astronaut helped test spaceflight systems for future moon missions.
Walter Cunningham
This Texas politician became the first Black woman elected to Congress from the South.
Barbara Jordan
This 1965 law helped protect voting rights, especially in the South.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This issue dealt with whether Texas or the federal government owned offshore oil rights.
Tideland Controversy
This El Paso leader became the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city.
Raymond Telles