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Joseph McCarthy-Mcarthyism
it means that allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism -
The Korean War
it result in the division of korea by an agreement -
Brown v. Board of Education
The suit called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation -
Emmett Till's Murder
At some point, he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who ran the store with her husband Roy, who was away at the time. then killed him -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
Berlin Wall
starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
George wallace
Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963 -
civil right movement
martin luther king jrplayed huge factor in civil right movement and in 1963 on the March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech -
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade -
Vietnam war
the U.S enter becuase for the domino theory -
Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience and was shot -
The hippie culture
they about creating world peace -
Assassination of Robert f. kennedy
Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later. -
the space race
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon -
Woodstock
was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music -
richard nixon/ water gate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement -
Reagan assassination attempt
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. -
HIV/AID
it is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus -
Reaganomics
the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s -
COLD WAR
during the cold war era the cuban missile crisis was heated conflict between the U.S and the USSR
