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Ashley Bocanegra
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A courtcase where the

mother of Linda Brown fled a
suit against her school. They
wouldn't allow her daughter
to go because she was black.
It went to the Supreme Court,
and the court ruling said that
it was unconstitutional to
have separate facilities, and
that they weren't necessarily
equal, thus overturning the
Supreme Court verdict from
Plessy v. Ferguson.

BROWN VS BOARD OF
EDUCATION

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was

an efort by Montgomery, Alabama,
blacks to end segregation on city
buses by boycotting the vehicles.
Took place from December 5, 1955
to December 20, 1956. Started
because of the arrest of Rosa Parks,
forty-two-year-old black seamstress
and former secretary of local
NAACP, for refusing to surrender her
seat on a Montgomery bus to a
white male passenger on December
1, 1955. Saw the rise of Martin
Luther King Jr., twenty-fve-year-old
Montgomery minister, as president
of the Montgomery Improvement
Association (MIA) and spokesman of
the boycott.

MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT

series of robotic spacecraft

missions launched by the
Soviet Union. The frst of
these, Sputnik 1, launched
the frst man-made object to
orbit the Earth. That launch
took place on October 4,
1957 as part of the
International Geophysical
Year and demonstrated the
viability of using artifcial
satellites to explore the upper
atmosphere.

The Sputnik program was a

THE LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK

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during the Cold War. During that time

many people in America were very anti
communist, or anit-Red. McCarthy
began telling people that the
government was full of Red
sympathizers. He started making lists
of people he accused of being
communist supporters. After a while he
did get carried away with his
accusations and was later censured by
the Senate.

Senator McCarthy was a U.S. Senator

MCCARTHYISM

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he Berlin Wall was built by the

ommunist government of East
erlin 1961. The wall separated
ast Berlin and West Berlin. It was
uilt in order to prevent people
om feeing East Berlin. In many
ays it was the perfect symbol of
he "Iron Curtain" that separated
he democratic western countries
nd the communist countries of
astern Europe throughout the Cold
ar.

BERLIN WALL WAS CONCTRUCTED

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The Soviet Union was

stockpiling Nuclear Weapons on
Cuba ,in the early 60's .U.S spy
planes took pictures and caught
them red handed .The President
placed a Naval Blockade on the
island and also put our Bombers
into the air .

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

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22, 1963 in Dallas TX by Lee Harvey
Oswald. Oswald was in an upper foor of
the Texas Schoolbook Depository when
he shot Kennedy from long range.
Oswald was a former US Marine who had
embraced communism having spent
time in the Soviet Union. Oswald was in
turn murdered by Jack Ruby before he
could be brought to trial. For decades
conspiracy theorists have claimed any
number of diferent scenarios for the
assassination. Despite all these claims
there has never been credible evidence
of any type of conspiracy. Unfortunately,
since Oswald was himself murdered only
a few days later, no one will ever know
why he did it.

Kennedy was assassinated on November

KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

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and looting in
AfricanAmerican
communities,
such as the
1967
nationwide
riots in most
major US
cities that led
to over 100
deaths, and
the 1968 riots
following the
assassination
of Martin
Luther King, Jr
which were as
widespread
and deadly.

Mass violence

fghting
among
various ethnic
groups in
major cities,
specifcally in
the northeast
and midwest
United States
throughout
the late 19th
century and
early 20th
century. This
example was
made famous
in the stage
musical West
Side Story.

frequent

RACE RIOTS

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1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is

fatally shot while standing on
the balcony outside his
second-story room at
theLorraine Motelin Memphis,
Tennessee. The civil rights
leader was in Memphis to
support a sanitation workers
strike and was on his way to
dinner when a bullet struck
him in the jaw and severed
his spinal cord. King was
pronounced dead after his
arrival at a Memphis hospital.
He was 39 years old.

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4,

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED

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at the Ambassador Hotel in Los

Angeles after winning the
California presidential primary.
Immediately after he announced
to his cheering supporters that
the country was ready to end its
fractious divisions, Kennedy was
shot several times by the 22year-old Palestinian Sirhan
Sirhan. He died a day later.

Senator Robert Kennedy is shot

ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED

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occurred in March of 1968,

was an episode of the Vietnam
War in which American
soldiers killed many
Vietnamese civilians, including
many women and children.
The signifcance of this event
is that it increased opposition
to the war.

The My Lai Massacre, which

MY LAI MASSACRE

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State Shootings U.S.
National Guard kill
four young people
during a
demonstration. As a
result four million
students go on strike
at more than 450
universities and
colleges.

Kent State University,

SCHOOLS CLOSE ON STRIKES

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move
ment
again
st
U.S.
involv
emen
t in
the
Vietn
am
War
began
small
amon
g
peace
activi
sts
and
leftist
intelle
ctuals
on
colleg
e
camp
uses
but
gaine
d
nation
al
promi
nence
in
1965,
after

The

PROTESTS AGAINST THE WAR

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costly armed confict 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 unifcation of
Vietnam under Communist
control two years later. More
than 3 million people, including
58,000 Americans, were killed
in the confict.

The Vietnam War was a long,

VIETNAM WAR ENDS