Events
President Kennedy imposed a blockade around Cuba. Cuba thought that meant the US wanted to go to war so the Soviet Union gave Cuba some nuclear missiles. It was the closest the US got to firing missiles during the Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
250,000 people peacefully marched in Washington for equal rights at this
The March on Washington
Who was the first black supreme court justice judge
Thurgood Marshall
What are protected by the US Constitution
Citizen's Rights
What first allowed people to work further away from where they lived
Trains
This war lasted 20 years and the US lost. Many Americans didn't think the US should have been in this war at all
Vietnam War
What outlawed any form of discrimination
Civil Rights Act
Who got arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus and fought for civil rights
Rosa Parks
When a state must respect all the legal rights owed to a person it's called
due process
What was the movement for rights for ALL people
Civil Rights Movement
Who was a civil rights activist that protested through peaceful actions and marches and said
I have a dream
Martin Luther King Jr
What ended segregation in schools
Brown vs the Board of Education in 1954
Which president got assassinated in TX and to this day it's still a mystery who did it
John F Kennedy
When blacks boycotted the buses after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person it caused what
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
During the Cold War the US and the Soviet Union were in a race to what
See who could send the first person to the moon because this showed who had the most tenchology