War
People
Laws
Supreme Court Decisions
Achievements
100

Victorious WWII battle that turned the tide for the Americans in the Pacific.

Battle of Midway

100

President that famously urged the necessity to preserve freedoms in America and around the world. 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

Would have banned gay teachers and supporters from teaching in California schools.

Proposition 6

100

Decision that gave women access to abortion within first 12 weeks. 

Roe v. Wade

100

Majority of white Americans moved here in the postwar era. 

Suburbs

200

The President who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.

President Truman

200

Arrested for refusing to give up seat to a white passenger

Rosa Parks

200
Laws that forced the separation of black Americans from white society like schools, restrooms and buses.

Jim Crow Laws

200

Declared all Japanese and Japanese-American persons must report to the internment camps.

Korematsu v. United States

200
Event that ended after 444 days of negotiations and hostage worries. 

Iran Hostage Crisis

300

The war in Southeast Asia that created terrible divisions and conflict in the USA.

The Vietnam War

300

Activist that worked at the NAACP office in Jackson before his assassination.

Medgar Evers

300
African American men now have the right to vote in American elections. 

15th Amendment

300

Mexican American students were barred from going to school with their white classmates.

Lemon Grove Incident

300

Students left school to go and march in the streets and many were arrested or hospitalized. 

Birmingham Children's Crusade

400

Promised financial and military aid to any Middle Eastern country.

Eisenhower Doctrine

400

Fiercely argued that communists are hiding in the US government, schools and media.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

400

Civilians had to reserve oil and fuel, recycle and limit how much food they can buy and eat per week. 

Rationing

400
Bans on interracial marriage is now unconstitutional.

Loving v. Virginia

400

Offered returning soldiers financial assistance to attend college, buy a house or start a business with low interest rates. 

The GI Bill

500

The segregated WWII unit for Japanese Americans.

442 Regimental Combat Team

500

This activist gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

500

Outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests. 

Voting Rights Act of 1965

500
"Separate but Equal" is legal and constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

Promised women full and equal rights to men; including equal pay and being drafted into future wars.

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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