AHH U7 MAP+ VOCAB+ TIMELINE

1) Murder of Emmett Till-1955

a 14-year-old African American, was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, an event that played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the United States.

2) Greensboro Sit-Ins-1960

a series of nonviolent protests initiated by African American college students in 1960 at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging racial segregation and inspiring similar actions across the Southern United States during the civil rights movement.

3) March on Washington- 1963

over 200,000 participants, including Martin Luther King Jr., gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., advocating for equal rights and economic opportunities for African Americans.

4) Assassination of JFK-1963

assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, when he was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade, sparking a wave of investigations and conspiracy theories.

5) Assassination of MLK-1968

assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, an event that had a profound impact on the civil rights movement in the United States.

6) Civil Rights Act of 1968

enacted to address housing discrimination by prohibiting the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person based on race, color, religion, or national origin, aiming to ensure equal housing opportunities for all.

7) US Withdraws From Vietnam

marked the end of direct American involvement in the Vietnam War, following the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. South Vietnam would later lose the war and Vietnam is communist to the day.

8) Watergate Scandal

involving the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, leading to revelations of widespread abuses of power and subsequent resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974

Great Society

Created by President LBJ to improve the social welfare safety net in the USA.

Atomic Bomb

Significantly more powerful than past weapons. First used in Hiroshima.

Domino Theory

Belief that if one country becomes Communist its neighbors would also become communist.

Warsaw Pact

Military alliance between countries in Eastern Europe and the USSR.

United Nations

Successor to the League of Nations. Exists to solve the world’s political problems.

Bretton Woods System

Created the World Bank and IMF to solve the world’s economic problems.

Brown V. Board

Supreme Court Case that ended the segregation of schools.

Mutually Assured Destruction

Theory that if one country uses nuclear weapons other countries will use them as well effectively ending the world as we know it.

Containment

Theory that communism must be prevented from spreading to other countries and that the USA must use military force to stop it if necessary.

Iron Curtain

Named by Winston Churchill. This is the metaphorical demarcation between communism and democracy in Europe.

Holocaust

The death and destruction of six million jews and five million other people by the Nazis during WWII.

International Organizations

Globally centered groups that try to solve world problems.

NATO

Military alliance primarily between the USA and Western Europe.

1 MAP) Cuba

Island country located about 90 miles from Florida. Positioned USSR nuclear weapons towards the USA

2 MAP) Berlin

Split up by the allies and USSR after WWII. Was saved by the USA via air dropped supplies

3 MAP) Turkey

Asian NATO member. The USA withdrew its nuclear weapons from this country to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

4 MAP) Vietnam

War executed because of containment theory. USA’s first real war loss

5 MAP) Incheon

Location of the last great amphibious landing. Turning point of the war.