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1-Containment-Plan to stop the spread of communism in the US
2-Arms race/space race-Race between US and USSR to build nuclear weapons and send man to space
3-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-The USSR now known as Russia was a communist nation involved in the Cold War with the US
4-Communism-Government where property is publicly owned and you're paid according to abilities
5-Domino theory-Idea that once one country falls to communism, others surrounding will as well -
United nations was formed after WWII to help the countries devastated by the war to recover, and keep peace so that another world war does not happen
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The Truman Doctrine was made in March 14th, 1947, and was a US policy that gave aid to the countries that were threatened by communism by other countries.
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This was passed in 1948, and aided countries that were devastated by World War II
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This was the first conflict that led to the cold war. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
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Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
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The 22nd amendment was ratified in 1951 and prohibits any president from being elected for more then two terms
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. They were later executed for their crimes.
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The successful test indicated that hydrogen bombs were viable airborne weapons and that the arms race had taken another giant leap forward.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475, was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." -
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Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. This helped saved thousands of lives as it was a deadly disease
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson -
It primarily provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, but also for some younger people with disability status.
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An offensive launched in January–February 1968 by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is a landmark law in the United States signed into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots. -
Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined First Amendment rights of students in U.S. public schools. -
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. -
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard -
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The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States.
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The 26th Amendment, which was ratified in 1971, established the current voting age of 18 for all 50 states, but states are allowed to determine other qualifications for voters. -
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1971 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. -
Title IX is a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It was enacted as a follow-up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
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The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978 -
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage -
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. -
The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
