World War II
What event brought the US into WWII?
Attach on Pearl Harbor
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools
Brown v Board of Education
President Kennedy encouraged this group of Americans to serve their country by being active in the Civil Rights Movement and joining the Peace Corps
Young Americans
9/11
George W. Bush
Affordable Care Act
Barak Obama
These Black fighter pilots escorted bombers during missions in Europe and earned an outstanding combat record.
Tuskgee Airmen
"Duck & Cover"
What scandal led to President Nixon to become the first President to resign from office
Watergate Scandal
Scandals and subsequent impeachment
NAFTA
Bill Clinton
He coined the term "Gilded Age"
Mark Twain
This Supreme Court decision ruled that the relocation of over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to incarceration camps did not violate Japanese Americans' rights.
Korematsu v. United States
Created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
NATO (North American Trade Organization)
Protected voters. Outlawed discriminatory practices like literacy tests and poll taxes
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter
1st woman appointed to the US Supreme Court
Sandra Day O’Connor
The Bracero Program allowed workers from this country into the US to help meet labor demands in the agriculture & railroad industries.
Mexico
Their 1961 mission focused on the desegregation of buses
Freedom Riders
His Great Society programs included Medicare, urban renewal, and the War on Poverty.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
War on Drugs
AIDS epidemic
STAR Wars
Ronald Reagan
His vote sealed the deal for Women to get the right to vote
Harry T. Burns
This Battle was a turning point in the Pacific War.
Battle of Midway
Named for a U.S. senator, it was a period in the late 1940s–1950s when the U.S. government targeted and persecuted left-leaning individuals, spreading fear about communist influence and Soviet spying.
McCarthyism (2nd Red Scare)
This area was created by Fayette County sharecroppers who were evicted from their land when they organized a voter registration drive
Tent City or Freedom Village
Invasion of Panama and the Gulf War.
George H.W. Bush
His administration is responsible for creating the Interstate Highway System.
Eisenhower