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Brown v.s. Board Of Education of Topeka Kansas
in 1896 the Plessy vs Ferguson stated facilities could be separate as long as they were equal. In 1945 Oliver Brown asked a school board to let his black daughter go to an all white school. They said no. The NAACP helped them file a lawsuit with Thurgood Marshall by saying it violated the 14th amendment. It turned over the Plessy vs Ferguson case and desegregated all schools. -
Baby Boom
During this time the birthrate in the US skyrocketed from 9 million babys to 29 million babys. When the soldiers came back they were ¨making up for lost time¨ it was too difficult or too expensive to raise children during the depression and WW2. A good thing that came out of this is better healthcare for babys and pregnant women during the 40s and 50s. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of tension between 2 countrys without any fighting. It lasted from 1945 and ended in 1989. An example of the Cold War is the US vs USSR. There were these things called Soviet Satellites. They were countrys in East Europe under soviet control from 1944 to 1990. The countrys that were these satellites were East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. -
NATO & Warsaw Pact
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was set up by the WW2 Allies in April 1949 as a military alliance to help one another if they were ever attacked. The capitol of NATO is in Brussels, Belgium. The Warsaw Pact was set up in 1955 as the Soviet Unions military alliance to go against NATO. It ended in 1991 when the Soviet Union crumbled apart. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin. In 1953 he had a list of 57 communists in the US government. He even went on TV to tell people about them but he could never prove his claims. Joe also said there were communists in the Army, causing a Red Scare like the one in the 20s. He eventually was censured and lost power. -
Kent State Massacre
At an Ohio school of about 21,000 kids there was a protest after Nixon pledged to send troops to Cambodia. The police came and started to bayonet and club the student protesters. National Guardsmen came and were met with hostile chants and rocks. In retaliation, 28 Guardsmen shot 61 bullets into the crowd. The bullets hit 13 students, killing 4 and injuring 9. The National Guard was NOT found guilty of the massacre but 25 students and professors were. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter´s presidency lasted from 1976-1980. He was a democrat and one of the Governors of Georgia. One of the notable events of his presidency was Olympic Boycott of 1980. Another event that happened during his presidency Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Two interesting facts about Jimmy Carter is he was the first president born in a hospital and that he was a millionaire peanut farmer. -
Social Network Revolution
The first social media site was called Geocities, made in 1994. The next one made was called Aol (American Online) instant messaging in 1997. One of the first social media site was called Friendster and then MySpace. Facebook was launched in 2004 and has 150 million users around the world. The site YouTube started in 2005.It was followed by Twitter which began in 2006. Instagram and Pintrest followed in 2010. This impacted people because this -
Financial Crisis Of 2008
In 2008 the world economy faced the most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression in the 30s. The companies that relied mostly on credit suffered heavily, especially the auto industry. Banks stopped making loans because they didn´t trust anyone to pay them back. The importance in this is insurance companies traded for credit swaps, they made trillions. The Bush Administration did very little to stop the recession. The financial crisis impacted economy as it caused a major recession.
