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Korean War
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-postwar/6038Eisenhower personally visited Korea in December of 1952 and finding it difficult to negotiate a peace treaty with Korea, Eisenhower hinted that he might use atomic weapons and an armistice was finally signed 7 months later. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
President Dwight David Eisenhower
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightdeisenhowerPreviously being a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, he was chosen by the Republican party. He was known as someone who was able to smooth the anxieties of troubled Americans during the decade of shaky peace and great prosperity. Souce: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
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Presidents, Civil Rights, & Vietnam Events
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Brown vs. Board of Education
[www.pbs.org](www.pbs.org)The Supreme Court's decision overturned the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson by saying that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision came as a result of a collection of cases filed by African American parents asking that their children be admitted to schools for whites only. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Emmett Till
http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515' Born and rasied in the south side of Chicago and in August 1955, he was bruatlly murderd at the age of 14. Till was driving down to relatives in Mississippi, when he stopped at a grocery store; when he left the store he said "Bye, baby" to the women which cost him his life. He was talking to Roy Bryant, the owner of the store's wife. Bryant along with J.W. Milam tortured Till, shot him in the head, put a 75 pound cotton jin around his neck, and threw him into Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Her small act of defiance made her an inspiration to all minoritiy races in the United States, and helped lead to the movement that would end legal segregation everywhere. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Interstate Highway System
[american-business.org](american-business.org)President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act which created the Interstate Highway Sysytem. The I-70 in Kansas was 424-miles long and marked the longest continuous segment of Interstate highway to be completed in any state. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Desegregated Buses
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956/After the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery black community began a bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr. After 381 days, the buses were then desegregated in response to the boycott, so that Blacks could sit freely on the bus. -
Little Rock Nine
http://www.littlerock9.com/ The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, prevented these students from entering the racially segregated school by using the local police force. In response to Faubus, President Eisenhower took action by enforcing the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school. -
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnfkennedyYoungest President ever elected, JFK personified the glamour and virtually of the new administration. He was Harvard-educated, and won popularity of his fellow citizens with his personal grace and wit. He exuded a sence of brilliant life and humor. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Peace Corps
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/peace-corps/Through the Peace Corps, JFK, sought to encourage mutual understanding between Americans and people of other nations and cultures; by dedicating themselves to the progress and peace of developing countries. Encouraged by more than 25,000 letters responding to his call, Kennedy took immediate action as president to make the campaign promise a reality. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
[library.thinkquest.org](library.thinkquest.org)Inheriting Eisenhower's administration a CIA-backed scheme to take Fidel Castro from power by invading Cuba with anticommunist exiles. 1,200 exiles landed at Cuba's Bay of Pigs, Kennedy, would not help the invasion when they met Castro's troops. Castro's troops crushed the exiles'. JFK assumed full responsibility for the failure, which won back the trust of the American people. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
[library.thinkquest.org](library.thinkquest.org)Aerial photographs of American spy planes revealed that the soviets were secretly installing nuclear missles in Cuba. The Soviets evidently intended to use these missiles to protect Castro and to blackmail US into backing down in Berlin and other spots. Kennedy rejected air force proposals for a "surgical" bombing strike against the missile-launching sites; nstead ordered a naval blockade of Cuba demanding immediate removal of the missles. Warning that any attack would result in war with Russia. -
Cuban Missle Crisis Comes to an End
Krushcheb finally backed down and agreed to pull the missles out of Cuba. The US in return agreed to end the blockade and not invade Cuba. A pact was later created in Moscow prohibiting nuclear attack that was signed in 1963. The "hotline" of Moscow-Washngton was permitted immediate communication in case of a crisis . Kennedy encouraged the American people to think of the Soviet Union as a peaceful exisitice "detente". Source: (CP book- for both) -
March on Washington
http://www.history.com/topics/march-on-washingtonMore than 250,000 Americans, of all colors, gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The outrage sparked when dogs and fire hoses were let loose on teen protesters in Birmingham, Alabama; this was the biggest march ever seen with nearly a quarter of the protesters being white. -
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnsonBeing sworn in as president on an airplane and flown back to Washington with JFK's body, he managed a dignified and efficent transition, continuing JFK's policies. As a tall-Texan Johnson used his "Johnson treatment" of backslapping, flesh-pressing, and arm twising ways. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
President John F. Kennedy's Assassination
[www.theredmountainpost.com](www.theredmountainpost.com)At 12:30 pm in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who was acting alone. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Civil Rights Act
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfmThis act outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. Outlawing literacy tests and sent voter registraters into several southern states. Also ending the racial segregation in schools, workplace and public facilities. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
[www.history.navy.mil](www.history.navy.mil)Created in reaction to two attacks by the North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Jay of the US Seventh Fleet. The purpose was to support the determination of the president in taking all required actions to determine any armed attack against the military of the US and to prevent further invasion. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Economic Opportunity Act
lbjlibrary.orgThis act was essential to LBJ's Great Society campaign and it's War on Poverty. The act had many social programs that promoted health, education, and general welfare of the poor community. -
Malcolm X Assasination
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/malcolm_x/index.htmlWhile speaking at a rally at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Malcolm X was assasinated at the age of 39. He long believed that he would be killed by Black Muslims, but even though two of the three killers were members of Islam, no conspiracy was ever proven. -
US Forces Increases
[www.britannica.com](www.britannica.com)Forces increased from 75,000 to 125,000 in Vietnam in hopes of ending the war. The monthly draft nearly doubled, where more protest also began to end the Vietnam War. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Voting Rights Passed
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 making it easier for southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal. -
Tet Offensive
[lifeofdoshie.authorsxpress.com ](lifeofdoshie.authorsxpress.com )North Vietnam and VietCong gave surprise attacks that were launched in South Vietnam to the US and South Vietnamese army, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place- including a two day cease fire. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assasination
http://www.history.com/topics/martin-luther-king-assassinationIn the spring of 1968 King went to Memphis, Tennessee to support striking black garbage collectors; but he didn't leave alive. He was killed by James Earl Ray, an escaped white convict who pleaded guilty in 1969, and then sentenced to 99 years in prison. -
President Richard Milhous Nixon
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/richardnixonHaving previously served as a Republican U.S. representative and senator from California Nixon brought his broad knowledge and thoughtful expertise in foreign affairs to the Presidency. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Cambodia Attack
[www.cambodiatribunal.org](www.cambodiatribunal.org)South Vietnam attacks Cambodia in order to push near Vietcong bases. The operation lasting 60 days, they discovered 28,500 weapons, over 16 million rounds of aummunition, and a solid food supply. 10,000 casualities were reported, even with most the Viet Cong escaping. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
history.nasa.govNixon approved of a five-year cooperative program between NASA and the Soviet space program, resulting in the joint mission of an American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linking in space; marking the end of the Space Race between the two superpowers. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Vietnamization
http://olive-drab.com/od_history_vietnam_nixon.phpThe US began turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel. Though some military advisors and Marines stayed to protect US installations. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Watergate Scandal
[naveenrnair.wordpress.com](naveenrnair.wordpress.com)On September 9, 1971, Nixon's paranoia leads to his forming of the "plumbers." They are sent to destroy Daniel Ellburg's pyschiatrist's office which revealed the "pentagon papers". Later, Nixon takes it one step too far by sending five men to break into, place electronic spy "bugs" in, and destory the Democratic party's headquarters at the Watergate Complex. Source: (CP text) -
President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/geraldfordWas the first person appointed to the Vice Presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, after Spiro Agnew had resigned. He was the only president to not be elected by the people. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
President Nixon Resigns
[www.washingtonpost.com](www.washingtonpost.com)President Nixon resigns due to demands of the people and his loss in his cabinet and political support. He becomes the first president to ever resign in American history. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 -
Ford Pardons Nixon's Watergate Scandal
[www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov](www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov)President Ford gave a speech pardoning Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as president. The scandal began when Nixon hired "Plumbers" who would steal information about Nixon's enemies. Eventually, hiring burglars to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee; coincidentally connecting to Nixon’s reelection campaign, His reaction was to cover up his trail which made him look more and more guilty. -
Rescuing South Vietnamese
[www.history.navy.mil](www.history.navy.mil)Ford compassionately admittted the South Vietnamese into the United States after the fall of the South to the North. The remaining Americans and about 140,000 South Vietnamese had to be rescued by helicopter out of Vietnam. Eventually, about 500,000 came over to the United States. Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006
