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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. In this war the United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China along with the Soviet Union fought for the South. North Korea launched a surprise attack against the South and the capital of Seoul fell in only 3 days. Pretty much all fell into the hands of Korea except for Pusan, at the end of August 1950. McArthur ruins things by ignoring orders and whatnot thus provoking the Chinese, threatening p -
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Founding of the KKK
KKK: Then and Now The KKK employed violence as a way of pushing back Reconstruction. The KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white republicans by intimidating, destroying property, assaulting and murdering to create a great influence. Finally in 1882, the KKK was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. -
Death of Emmet Till
Emmet Till Short Video
Emmet Till a 14-year old was brutally murdered for "flirting" with a white woman whom claimed he did other things to her as well. Till's corpse was recovered a few days later but it was so disfigured that he could only be identified by his ring. An open casket funureal was held so that the world could see what the racist murderers did to Emmet Till. -
Vietnam War
Tim and Moby - Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine Song
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
JFK Assassination
JFK Assassination Video
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Selma Walk
The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama. By highlighting racial injustice in the South, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
Ping-Pong Diplomacy refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s. The event marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon. This was used in order to smooth over and build relations between China and the United Sates. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail." -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall DeconstructedThe Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 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. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, JFK notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary.
