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He was the 33rd president of the United States. His term began after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a democrat from Missouri.
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After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's emperor knew that they had to surrender. The war ended when U.S. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s formal surrender. -
Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam from France. The proclamation declared, “All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!” -
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. The Truman Doctrine asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
This was a decade long war, between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its Satelite States. The war was caused by a political rivalry.
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The Marshall Plan was created to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The goals of the Marshall Plan were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity and prevent the spread of communism. It was a success. -
This started when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to ares of Britain that were allied-controlled. The response of the US and UK was to airlift food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
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NATO was created to keep the Allies' freedom and security safe by political and military needs. There were 30 countries from North America and Europe that were part of NATO. -
This war was between North and South Korea. The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea and ended in a stalemate with the border near where it had been at the war's beginning.
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The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and federal power. It ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law.
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He was the 34th president of the United States, following Truman. He was a Republican from Kansas. His term followed a victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
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The Brown V. Board of Education cases ended segregation in public schools. Ending segregation provided a catalyst for the civil rights movement. -
The Geneva Accords were signed to settle issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. They were signed between the French and Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian representatives. -
The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. It was caused by the spread of communism and ended with the country being unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
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Rosa Parks was arrested after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Her actions launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens. -
The counterculture movement was an era of change in identity, family unit, sexuality, dress, and the arts. During this time, the youth rejected social norms.
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This was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. This strengthened the position of Castro's administration.
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The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin. It became the symbol of the Cold War. -
This was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It started because the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities.
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This was was signed by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. It banned nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water. -
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th US president. He won passage of a major tax cut, the Clean Air Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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This Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. Johnson was able to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. -
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam.
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The My Lai Massacre occurred when Charlie Company was ordered to enter the village for a search and destroy mission. American soldiers killed more than 500 unarmed South Vietnamese citizens in the village of My Lai. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement. He was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. -
Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer. He was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft in the same year.
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The snowball riots took place in New York City after the Stonewall was raided by the police. It was a series of protests by members of the gay community. -
The Stonewall Riots were a series of protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid. They took place in New York and were the motivation for many civil rights organizations.
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Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon. He was on the American spaceflight called the Apollo 11. -
The Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment of the US Constitution. It was designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law. -
Roe V. Wade was a US supreme court case that ruled that a state law that banned abortion was unconstitutional. The decision said that a woman's right to privacy extended to the fetus that she was carrying -
Ford was the 38th president of the United States. He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He reoriented U.S. foreign policy towards an emphasis on human rights.
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Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He enacted a major tax cut, sought to cut non-military spending, and eliminated federal regulations.
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On November 9th The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, crowds swarmed the wall and tore it down. -
Economic stagnation and the over extension of the military were both factors that led to the fall of the Soviet Union. The Cold War and the U.S. policy of containment also played a role. -
The ADA protects people with disabilities from discrimination. It became effective for employers with 25 or more employees.