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| a radical faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Weathermen advocated violent means to transform American society. They showed their anger by setting bombs and gaining popularity from the White working class. |
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| Also known as the European Recovery Program, this channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery. The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall |
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| made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He inspired African Americans to question the Seperate but equal law and encouraged overall equality. |
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| Was the rise of the Beatles, a British band that dominated American Pop music starting in 1963. |
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| A Republican Senator of Wisconsin who believed that communism would spread to America.(During the period of the Cold War)he questioned many government authorities of being traitors and supporting communism. Known as McCarthyism. |
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| one of the most controversial espionage cases of the Cold War. The couple was accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. They were both executed by Electric Chair in 1953. |
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| During WWI the Germans were intercepting our communications and deciphering our codes so the US decided to let Native Americans to transmit messages in their Native language which kept the Germans from stealing our plans. They were also used in WWII. |
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| The creator of Levittowns, which was all the houses in the suburb areas that were built exactly the same that were cheap during the baby boomers period. |
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Robert S. McNamara announces that he will resign as Secretary of Defense and will become president of the World Bank.
Formerly the president of Ford Motor Company, McNamara had served as Secretary of Defense under two presidents, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1961 until 1968. He initially supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and encouraged President Johnson to escalate in 1964, but he later began privately to question U.S. policy and eventually advocated a negotiated settlement to the war. |
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| a French word meaning release from tension ,is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party |
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| Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party and traveled to the Soviet Union. He helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, in 1941. He was also president of North Vietnam for 25 years. |
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| The case which required the right to an attorney even if you didn't have the money for one 1963. |
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| (1908-1993) was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments. First, as legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation. Second, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court–the nation’s first black justice |
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| a term coined during the Cold War to describe the tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat. It was an effective tactic because neither side of a conflict could contemplate mutually assured destruction in a nuclear war, acting as a nuclear deterrence for both the side threatening to pose damage and the country on the 'receiving end'. Ultimately, it worsened the relationship between the USSR and the US. |
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| the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, graduates with a degree in political science. His enrollment in the university a year earlier was met with deadly riots, and he subsequently attended class under heavily armed guard. |
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| series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the Communist attacks, news coverage of the offensive (including the lengthy Battle of Hue) shocked and dismayed the American public and further eroded support for the war effort. Was a win for North Vietnam which was a turning point in the War. |
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| activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith, challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr.He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary.” Assasinated in 1965 |
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| 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. A deal was made with Soviet Russia from President Kennedy. |
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| led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. At home, he initiated a process of “de-Stalinization” that made Soviet society less repressive |
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| The deal made with Germany by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who agreed to hand over Czechoslovakia and their resources for "peace" which was very short term. |
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| a staged event engineered by rogue Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria. |
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| The belief that Communism would spread from the west to America from 1950-80. Idea was started from Dwight Eisenhower that encouraged the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder |
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| the strategic bombing campaign that had U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against South Vietnam. This was a major sign of the U.S. involvement in the war. |
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| A sign that was on President Truman's desk in his White House office, which means passing the responsibility on to someone else. |
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| a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York. Led by scientist Albert Einstein. |
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| A case that gave the right to have a legal abortion. It noted that the state did not have the right to keep Jane Roe for her right to have an abortion. |
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| a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. Used by Germany against Poland in 1973, later adopted by General George Patton. |
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| aka North Vietnam fighting against the south to spread the belief of communism, led by their president Ho Chi Minh. |
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| North Vietnam aka Viet Cong, fights against the South supported by the U.S. The war went from 1954-75, but the U.S. was only involved from 1955-1973. An estimated 2 million Vietnamese died during this time as well as 58,000 Americans. The war began with President Eisenhower and ended with President Richard Nixon. 2 years after the U.S. withdrew, the south Vietnamese are defeated and it becomes one country under communism. AS the war went on it became more and more unpopular and there was a want for peace from Americans back home with many of the soldiers be young and drafted into the war. |
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| This was a big tension between the U.S and Soviet Russia following WWII which resulted in the arms race which, caused each country to try and build more and more atomic/ hydrogen bombs to build their power and authority as a country which caused fear of nuclear warfare in the future. This was also the start of the Space Race, which was an attempt to create sattelites and improve our military capability from space which resorted in Soviet Russia to overspend in trying to match our achievement of reaching the moon. This hurt their economy and helped us even more. Another result was the Red Scare, which was the thought of the rise of communism in America through small groups. The decline of the Cold War is said to be when the SALT treaty is signed in 1972 which slowed the production and threat of a nuclear warfare. |
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| Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia |
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| U.S., Britain, France, & Soviet Russia(later) |
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| Japanese citizens along the west coast are largely discriminated against and are moved into camps within the US during WWII. |
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| Victory in Europe on May 8th, 1945. Germany surrenders, nearing the end of WWII. |
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| Enola Gay delivered "Little Boy" in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. "Fat Man" is dropped 3 days later on August 9th. |
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| August 14th, 1945 Japan surrenders in WWII. |
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| Japan withdraws from Korea 1945 |
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| North Korea withdraws and overthrows South Korea. |
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| Wants to invade China, President Truman disagrees and fires him. |
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| Takes over on January 1st, 1959 and Cuba becomes a communist country. |
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| Allowed WWI vets to attend school for free which causes a huge economic boom. Loans had less interest for vets on homes and this grows business and colleges. |
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| Creates Fair Deal, which is programs for healthcare, education and wanted to expand role of the gov't. He enacted the Taft-Harvey Act(1947) that got rid of the force to join a union. |
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