Victorious WWII battle that turned the tide for the Americans in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
President that famously urged the necessity to preserve freedoms in America and around the world.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Would have banned gay teachers and supporters from teaching in California schools.
Proposition 6
Decision that gave women access to abortion within first 12 weeks.
Roe v. Wade
Majority of white Americans moved here in the postwar era.
Suburbs
The President who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.
President Truman
Arrested for refusing to give up seat to a white passenger
Rosa Parks
Jim Crow Laws
Declared all Japanese and Japanese-American persons must report to the internment camps.
Korematsu v. United States
Iran Hostage Crisis
The war in Southeast Asia that created terrible divisions and conflict in the USA.
The Vietnam War
Activist that worked at the NAACP office in Jackson before his assassination.
Medgar Evers
15th Amendment
Mexican American students were barred from going to school with their white classmates.
Lemon Grove Incident
Students left school to go and march in the streets and many were arrested or hospitalized.
Birmingham Children's Crusade
Promised financial and military aid to any Middle Eastern country.
Eisenhower Doctrine
Fiercely argued that communists are hiding in the US government, schools and media.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Civilians had to reserve oil and fuel, recycle and limit how much food they can buy and eat per week.
Rationing
Loving v. Virginia
Offered returning soldiers financial assistance to attend college, buy a house or start a business with low interest rates.
The GI Bill
The segregated WWII unit for Japanese Americans.
442 Regimental Combat Team
This activist gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Plessy v. Ferguson
Promised women full and equal rights to men; including equal pay and being drafted into future wars.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)