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An American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." -
The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence. -
This war started when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel. -
The Supreme Court ruling that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. -
The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia, so we joined the war. -
This was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
This was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
This was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
A quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. -
He was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
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. -
Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. -
Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface. -
A night guard at a D.C. 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. -
It ruled that women's right to abortion was rooted in the language of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. -
The Iran hostage crisis was 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