Civil Rights
This leader preached for peace and equality among all people. He is most known for his famous "I have a dream" speech during the March on Washington.
Martin Luther king Jr.
The threat of nuclear destruction with this nation caused the high tension Cold War.
Russia or USSR or Soviet Union
This plan had the United States as the main source of aide to Western Europe after World War II.
The Marshall Plan
This landmark infrastructure project, initiated during Eisenhower’s presidency, transformed transportation in the United States.
Eisenhower Era
This landmark case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education
The president who signed the Civil Rights act of 1964. He was a major advocate of the Civil rights movement and it was one of his most prominent focal points of his shortened presidential term.
John F Kennedy
The Soviet Leader during the Cold War.
Nikita Khruschev
This act passed by President Eisenhower helped promote interstate commerce with the mass construction of infrastructure.
The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act.
This landmark civil rights legislation, passed during Johnson’s presidency, outlawed segregation in public accommodations and employment practices.
LBJ's Great Society
This case established that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys, ensuring the right to legal representation.
Gideon v. Wainwright
This speaker projected ideas of "any means necessary" and the ideas that African Americans should fight for their rights.
Malcolm X
Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in this country resulting in the United States stationing missiles in this country during the height of the Cold war.
Cuba (Soviet) and Turkey (United States)
These two wars emphasized by the containment policy shifted the United States government spending more towards the military aspect.
Korean War and Vietnam
This policy, aimed at containing the spread of communism, was central to Truman’s foreign policy during the Cold War.
Truman's Presidency
This case established the requirement for law enforcement to inform criminal suspects of their rights before questioning them, including the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. This led to the creation of the “Miranda rights.”
Miranda v. Arizona
This group formed by Huey P. Newton had a violent tone for self defense against corrupt police force and anti-integration white people.
The Black Panther Party
This senator sparked the mass speculation of communist spies in the United States government.
Joseph McCarthy.
This program under Kennedy and Johnson focused on eliminating poverty and racial injustice with factions such as Medicare and Medicaid.
The Great Society
This scandal, involving the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately led to who's resignation.
Richard Nixon
This case established the principle of disparate impact discrimination, ruling that employment practices that have a disproportionate adverse impact on minorities or other protected groups can be considered discriminatory even if there was no intent to discriminate.
Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
These two people can be viewed as predecessors to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X with similar views on the same problems at hand.
Booker T Washignton (similar to Martin Luther King) and W.E.B Dubois (similar to Malcolm X)
This French term translates to loosening or relaxation and was used to refer to the policy of ending the Cold War.
détente
The embargo with this middle eastern oil supplier caused an energy crisis in the United States, leading to high inflation and unemployment.
OPEC
The 1979 hostage crisis in this Middle Eastern country overshadowed much of who's presidency.
Jimmy Carter
This Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide by ruling that state laws prohibiting it were unconstitutional, citing a woman’s right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Roe v. Wade