Presidents, people and Dictators
Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations housing, businesses etc in 1964
Civil rights act of 1964
This event happened in 2008 when a first president was elected
What is the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama?
Term used to describe the act accusing people of subversive actions without evidence during the Second Red Scare. Name for Joseph McCarthy.
McCarthyism
Initiated by the Soviets launch of Sputnik, this is a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
Space Race
First black baseball player in the MLB
Jackie Robinson
The name of the law that guarantees women equal access to various opportunities (especially sports) in schools and colleges.
Title IX or 9
The U.S. entered WWI in 1917 after this intercepted message.
Zimmermann telegram
This amendment made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal
18th
A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
Mutually Assured Destruction MAD
President During WW1
Woodrow Wilson
Legalized abortion in the United States but then was overturned in 2022
Roe V. Wade
This 1945 event ended WWII in the Pacific. specifically with Japan
What is the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. US ideology during the Cold War.
Capitalism
Reagan's proposed missile-defense system; featured orbiting battle stations in space that could fire laser beams to vaporize intercontinental missiles on liftoff; popularly known as
STAR WARS OR SDI
He founded the Company Microsoft
Bill Gates
The Supreme Court decision that stated that students do not lose their 1st Amendment rights in school, and that schools must prove conduct must “materially and substantially interfere” with the operation of the school before it can be banned.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
In 1979, over 40 Americans were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in this country
Iran
Amendment gave women the right to vote
19th
Law responding to 9/11. Expands anti-terrorist powers (wiretapping, surveillance); 4th Amendment concern for civil liberties.
Patriot Act 2001
Sandra Day O' Conner
Validated segregation via the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Plessy V. furguson
this assassination in 1914 triggered WW1
The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand
Supreme Court decision that extended protection against discrimination to Hispanics; established Jury of Peers
Hernandez V Texas
an international coalition of forces assembled under the United Nations that forced the withdrawal of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which they had invaded and occupied in August 1990. "LIBERATE KUWAIT" (HW Bush)
Persian Gulf WAR or Operation Desert Storm