Unit 8,9& 10 Timetoast.

By Syed Tajwar

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as "separate but equal"

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under 14th amendament.

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegration.

  • Montogomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks arrest.

  • Little rock nine into an all white school in Little rock ,AK

  • AIDs Epidemic

    When the HIV virus increased significantly in America,but first noticed by doctors when they found other issues within the batch.

  • OPEC

    An organization of the petroleum exporting countries

  • Bay of pigs invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" at march on Washington.

  • John F. Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, Texas

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendament

    Abolishes the poll tax.

  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race ,religion,or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal oppurtunity basis.

  • Medicare and medicaid established

  • Voting act rights

    Eliminated literacy test for workers.

  • Tet offensive

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental housing.

  • First man on the moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in United state public schools.

  • Kent State University shooting

    The killing of 4 and wounding 9 other unarmed university students.

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 to 18.

  • Title IX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs.

  • The Watergate Scandal

    Was a political scandal in the US involving President Richard Nixon.

  • War powers act

    Law limited the presidents power to send troops to without congressional approval.

  • Fall of saigon,marks the end of vietnam war

  • The community reinvestment act of 1977

    Was designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help the needs of borrowers in all parts of the community.

  • Camp David Accords

    They were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Manechem Begin.

  • Three mile island disaster

    It was a partial meltdown of reactor 2 on Three mile island Nuclear generating station in Dauphin county.

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    It was a deplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran.

  • Sandra Day O' Conner

    A retired politician who served as the first woman associate justice of the supreme court of the united states .

  • Star Wars( Strategic defense initiative )

    The United States proposed strategy if a nuclear attack were to happen,Proposed by President Ronald Raegen.

  • The Iran contra

    It was a political scandal in the United States that occured during the second term of the Raegan administration.