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was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
Berlin Wall
was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was “whites only”.
Boynton v. Virginia
is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict. It occurs in international politics, foreign policy, labor relations, and military strategy involving the threat of nuclear weapons, and high-stakes litigation.
Brinksmanship
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Brown v. Board of Education
is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act
was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which denied the Arkansas School Board the right to delay desegregation for 30 months
Cooper v. Aaron
was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation, through verbal communication
Detente
was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
Domino Theory
was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Dwight Eisenhower
was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and earlier as the 30th Governor of California.
Earl Warren
was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
Fidel Castro
was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
Francis Gary Powers
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
Freedom Riders
as a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Great Society
was an American politician and journalist who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963
John Kennedy
was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957
Joseph McCarthy
was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier
Little Rock Central High School
was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
Massive Retaliation
Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.
Medical Care Act
was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was used by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him
New Frontier
was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
Richard Nixon
was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
Robert Kennedy
was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.
Southern Manifesto
was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War,
Tet Offensive
is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
Voting Rights Act
This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent
War on Poverty
