WW2
Pearl Harbor
Korean War
Proxy War, soviets support North, U.S south.
Brown v. Board of Education
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. Forced integration in schools
Vietnam War
U.S supports south, Vietnamization, North Wins
OPEC
Women and African Americans
Women helped by being nurses, taking jobs, victory gardens, rationing, buy war bonds
African Americans, joined the military (Tuskegee airmen)
Space Race/ Arms Race
Competition between U.S and Soviet Union. Led to increase spending in STEM field
Black Panther
Violent, civil rights fighters
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and War Powers Act
President controls military; congress takes power to control military.
EPA
Executive order 9066
Japanese internment camps
GI Bill
Helped Veterans with Housing and Education
Civil Rights Act 1964
ended segregation and required equal treatments of minorities in the workplace
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba gets blockade after soviets install missiles in Cuba.
War on Terror
After 9/11, led to invasion of Afghanistan. USA patriot act
Navajo Code talkers
Transmitted secret military information
Berlin Airlift
U.S flew planes over the S.U to get supplies to west Berlin
Little Rock 9
Orval Fabous challenged integration, Eisenhower sent troops to walk students to school.
Voting Rights act of 1965
eliminated poll tax and literacy tests to vote
Hurricane Katrina
2005, New Orleans, Levees Overflowed
Atomic Bomb
Manhattan Project, developed by the United States, dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
House of Unamerican Activities
looked into Hollywood individuals who were suspected of being communist (McCarthyism)
March on Washington
Non- violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities. "I have a dream"
Chicano Movement
Murals, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta
Watergate Scandal
Nixon Quits, tapes reveal he broke into watergate hotel to spy on opposing party.