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Feminism
the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. -
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Balkan Crisis
-Bulgaria and Serbia (backed by Russia) lead war on Turkey
- Drive Turkey all but out of Europe
- Almost draws Russia and America into war
- Euro war narrowly avoided and new country Albania created -
Panama Canal
The United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The idea was to create a water passage across the isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans -
Robert Johnson
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians -
G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was an act created to provide numerous benefits to veterans of WWII. The bill established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending colleges or trade school.(The education and training provisions only lasted until 1956) -
Atomic Bombing at Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber was dropped over the Hiroshima. (it was the world's first bomb dropped) .The bomb was called "Little Boy," the explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people. Thousands more would die later, due to fallout -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a metaphoric curtain to symbolize the isolation of Europe into two separate zones from the finish of World War II in 1945 until the finish of the Cold War in 1991 -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.It actually worked -
Berlin Airlift
British and the Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. It was divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.These airlifts provided people there with supplies they needed to survive. -
The Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was a set of proposals and an addition to the New Deal announced by President Truman, characterizing the entire agenda of the Truman administration, focusing on health care, public housing, education, and public works. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
The Beat Generation
The beat generation was a literary movement during the 1950s were artists, novelists, and poets that borrowed slang from black communities and rejected American materialism, culture, home ownership, careers, and marriage. They would wild out. -
Alger and Ethel Rosenberg
The Rosenbergs were convicted and sentenced to death. They were accused of being communist spies along with his wife. -
United States test first H-Bomb
The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case and was the second most important court case in history. The court case overturned the ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson, declaring that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, forcing integration of schools, waiting rooms, restrooms, and etc. -
The Polio Vaccine
Created by Dr. Jonas Salk to prevent polio. -
Dr.Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk announced on a national radio show of his successful discovery and development of a vaccination for polio. This discovery playing a key role in putting us a step closer to eradicating polio. -
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets, were an American Rock & Roll band founded in 1952. They were the first group of white musicians that brought American attention to the African-American style music and blues of Rock & Roll during the 50s. -
Television
During the 1950s, television gradually became popular and prominent in the American pop-culture. TVs were a form of entertainment for Americans across the country and a form of political strategy for politicians to get their speeches to the people -
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman, more often known as Little Richard, was an influential African-American musician, singer, and songwriter during the 1950s. -
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Anti-War Movement
An anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley, also known as "The King of Rock & Roll" or "The King," was a singer and actor during the 1950s.He is known as one of the most significant cultural icons of the decade, playing a defining role in establishing rock & roll. -
Orval Faubus
Governor Faubus deployed National Guardsmen to block Supreme Court-ordered school integration. -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to get a satellite into space. America won. -
Eisenhower's intervention
President Dwight Eisenhower used federal authority to force Faubus to comply with the desegregation orders. -
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Hippies
A hippie is a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. -
Lionel Sosa
He created own advertising agency; founder of largest Hispanic advertising agency in US; Hispanic media consultant for six Republican campaigns; 2006 recognized as one of 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America by TIME -
The New Frontier
The New Frontier was the foundation under which President John F. Kennedy was elected, promoting to raise the minimum wage, relieve overcrowded schools, and the hopeful goals of cutting taxes for business from 90%, advances in space technology, and increase spending to alleviate a downturn. Most of the things that they set out to do was not accomplished -
The Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a humanitarian organization that was created by President Kennedy's Executive Order 10924 establishing the organization as a new agency within the Department of State.It inspires young college graduates to participate in humanitarian projects in poor countries. -
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Freedom Riders
when groups of African-American and white civil rights activists launches a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. (May 4th was their first ride ) -
Albert Sabin
He discovered the oral version of the polio vaccination that had longer lasting effects than Jonas Salk's version of the polio vaccination. -
Cesar Chavez
Mexican-American Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) was a prominent union leader and labor organizer.Hardened by his early experience as a migrant worker, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California, and the two organizations later merged to become the United Farm Workers -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
An event that took place after the discovery of Soviet ICBMs in Cuba by U.S. U-2 spy planes. The U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff, and a fear of a possible WWIII emerged across America, but a deal was established between Kennedy and Khrushchev, allowing the U.S. to inspect Soviet ships and forced the removal of ICBMs from Cuba in exchange for the U.S. dismantlement of their ICBMs in Turkey and U.S. isolation from Cuba. -
March on Washington
500,000 people marched on Washington towards the Lincoln Monument, led by Martin Luther King Jr. to battle the Southern Bloc. The march was staged on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, being symbolic to achieving Civil Rights. Here is when Dr.King gave his famous "I have a dream" Speech -
Birmingham Bombing
The Birmingham Bombing was an event in which the KKK hurled a bomb into 16th Street Baptist Church, killing 4 girls, in resistance to MLK's March on Washington roughly 2 weeks prior to the incident. -
Assasination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy took multiple shots to the neck and a fatal shot to the side of the head as he rode down Elm Street through Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-marine with communist sympathies, from the 6th floor of a book depository. -
Warren Burger Supreme court
Warren was involved in brown v.s. board of education as well as spearheading the investigation of JFK's assassination.The yearlong investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination. Although a verdict was reached it didn't help debunk any conspicracies made by the public about the event. -
The Daisy girl AD
The "Daisy Girl" ad was a controversial and political advertisement that was aired only once on the media during the 60s, encouraging and urging the nation to vote for Lyndon B. Johnson. The ad showed a little girl in a field when a nuclear bomb goes off, implying an unstated message that a vote for Barry Goldwater results in the death of Daisy Girl and many others. -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1964 against the Democratic candidate Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the Senator from Arizona and was very conservative, some of which promoted the rid of the New Deal and Great Society.Obviously he loses . -
The Great Society
A revision and addition to the New Deal proposed by Lyndon B. Johnson that promised a higher focus on education, good standards of living, and beautification. Its main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Selma March
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. -
Home video game systems
As opposed to in games at the arcades, the home video game systems was a way to play games at home.1st console,the Brown Box by Ralph Baer. -
My Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam -
LSD
LSD,more commonly known as Acid, was a drug used by hippies and young rebels during the Counterculture movement in order to highlight their perception of the purpose of life and escape the issues of society. -
Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid. -
Environmental Protection Agency
Its purpose is to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. Since its creation, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. -
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the U.S. constitution that guaranteed equal rights to all citizens regardless of gender. The amendment sought to erase the legal distinction between male and female but ended up failing to be ratified. -
Watergate
A huge political scandal that depicted the break-ins at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. President Richard Nixon attempted cover-up of its involvement by cutting up recordings but ultimately failed -
Title IX
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" -
Roe V. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court case in which It ruled that unwarranted restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. Abortion was a very controversial topic, some women even participated in protests in hopes of legalizing the practice. -
Endangered Species Act
Thsi act inacts the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout the world and the conservation of the ecosystems these species depend on -
Video Home System
This is a widely-adopted video cassette recording ( VCR ) technology that was developed by Japan Victor Company and put on the market in 1976. -
Satellite television
Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to customers (usually paying subscribers) by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the customer's location.This is how people gto their entertainment and news -
Robert Johnson
He is founder of BET (Black Entertainment Television); sold program to Viacom 2001; became first African American billionaire -
Moral Majority
A political party founded by Jerry Falwell (A conservative.The political party formed a conservative political bloc in the late 70s and early 80s that consisted of people who were pro-life, pro-family, pro-American, and pro-morality. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. -
Rap Music
During the 1980s, it began to spread to music scenes in dozens of countries, many of which mixed hip-hop with local styles to create new subgenres. -
Election of 1980
A presidential election between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter. Raegan was a former governor of California running against Carter in his second term, who was haunted by a bad economy and the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Reagan defeats Carter, ironically, after Raegan is sworn in, Ayatolah Khomeiri releases the American hostages in spite of Carter. -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle program is the U.S. government's manned launched vehicle program, administered by NASA. The first ever space shuttle was launched in April 1981 with one of the passengers being Sally Ride, allowing her to become the first American woman in space. Only two failures have taken place within the Space Shuttle program: the Challenger, and Columbia. -
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006 and was the first women ever to serve on the Supreme Court. O'Connor was known for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions and is remembered as acting as a sturdy guiding hand in the court's decisions during those 24 years in office. In 2009, her accomplishments were recognized by President Obama who honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. -
A.I.D.S. Crisis
After scientific discovery that the disease was also transmitted by other means, plus political pressure from those who felt the name unfairly stigmatized homosexuals, the designation was officially changed to AIDS. In Africa, where the vast majority of cases have always been (about 20 times as many cases as in the United States), the disease has always been found in the general population. -
Discount Retailing
Is a retail store sells products at prices that are lower than the typical market value. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin.This division only promoted more conflict among both sides. Mobs crowded against the wall and some crossed into W. Berlin while others began to bring down the wall by their own means. -
Election of 1992 (Bill Clinton)
He was a Democrat, the governor of Arkansas, he was charismatic and understanding. Wins by 43% of the popular vote -
World trade center attack 1993
Terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the subsequent explosion, which carved out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into the upper reaches of the quarter-mile-high skyscrapers. This prompted them to back up their systems. -
Don't ask, Don't tell policy
This was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration.This policy allowed the LGBT community in the military as long as no one knew their orientation. The old policy forbade gays from being allowed in. -
Rodney King Incident
Three Los Angeles police officers were kicking, stomping on, and beating with metal batons a seemingly defenseless African-American named Rodney King.Despite the videotape, a jury in Simi Valley concluded a year later that the evidence was not sufficient to convict the officers. Within hours of the jury's verdict, Los Angeles erupted in riots. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who boarded the back of a bus and refused to give up her seat when a white man demanded it, resulting in her arrest in the process. -
The Defense of Marriage act
Passed Congress. It defined marriage as between only a man and women; however many states and companies extended benefits to same sex partners and many states legalized same sex marriages -
Welfare reform
During President Bill Clinton's first term in office, much of the United States took for granted that there would be welfare reform of some sort. The question was what it would look like. The answer came 20 years ago when Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. -
Oprah Winfrey
She has a talk show that was highly influential. Her show was meant as an educational platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events. -
Bush v. Gore
The court ruled that manual recounts of presidential ballots in the Nov. 2000 election would not be allowed because of the inconsistent evaluation standards in different counties violated the equal protection clause. In effect, the ruling meant Bush would win the election. -
No Child Left Behind
This called for action to fix the broken public education system; linked federal money to state action requiring states to have high standards for all students;progress was suppose to be show through standardized testing -
PATRIOT ACT
U.S.A PATRIOT ACT is an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism."
The Patriot Act gives the authorities enhanced powers, such as looking up library records, to protect the country. -
Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across.It caused great devastation and left people without homes, many people migrated to other states. -
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The Great Recession
It represents the sharp decline in economic activity. The stock market crashed -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Law with provisions concerning the standards for the electronic transmission of health care data; intended to create jobs and promote investment and consumer spending during the recession that followed the financial collapse in 2008. -
Sonia Sotomayor
She is is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. The first Hispanic SCOTUS judge. -
Affordable Care Act
Also known as Obamacare. This is the health care reform law focuses on reform of the private health insurance market; providing better coverage for those with pre-existing conditions; improving prescription drug coverage in Medicare. -
Undoing of DOMA
It was deemed unconstitutional by Obama in 2011. -
Barack Obama
Became The United States first black president. During his presidency, he hoped for change.He expanded TARP to bail out auto companies and passed comprehensive health care bill without one Republican voting for it.
