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The Truman Doctrine led to the Marshall Plan for the US to provide foreign aid to countries economically recovering from WWII in hopes of containing the spread of communism. -
An attack on individuals on suspected beliefs. -
It broke out because the North Koreans attacked South Korea with confidence that they could win the war and communize the entire Korean peninsula. -
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
The first satellite ever launched into space. -
An incident where Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba as a response for help. -
. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Robert Kennedy. Kennedy was fatally shot on 5 June 1968 -
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
n the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, a night guard at a D.C. The hotel and office complex was making his rounds when he noticed a suspiciously taped-open exit door. He quickly alerted authorities, setting off a series of events that would forever change the nation. -
the Supreme Court recognized that the right to liberty in the Constitution, which protects personal privacy, includes the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy. -
The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. -
an international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year.