-Established by President Truman focused on voting rights, education and housing
-Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player
-created by Truman
-asked for $400 million dollars to help the people of Turkey
-groups of rebellious writers and intellectuals
-advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against social standards
-supreme court agreed with Marshell and overturned Plessy case
-"separate facilities are inherently unequal"
-segregation in the court should end with "all deliberate speed"
-Rosa Parks
-Boycotted the bus system
-pledged economic and military aid to all counties in the middle east threatened by communism
-students at college did a sit-in movement after being refused service at a segregated Woolworth's lunch
-Arab nations formed OPEC
-growing western dependence on Middle East Oil
-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-advocated "black power" and racial seperatism
-illegally seized evidence that can't be used in a case against the accused
its a state in the south
-MLK got arrested along with followers
-people felt this was unjust
-requires that states provide counsel for poor defendents
-Betty's book
-encouraging women to seek professional careers
-200,000 blacks and whites took part in the peacful March on
Washington in support of civil rights
-led by MLK
-one of the longest and most successful demonstrations ever
gave blacks many rights
-criminal suspects have a right to counsel
-prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax
-Watts riot
-LA Race riot
-Detroit riot
-(voting rights acts) provided federal registries where blacks could vote
-Malcolm X
-tried to advocate black supremacy
-National Organization for Women
Russians put the first satellite in space
Started the Space Race
to provent the spread of Communism (Kennen)
give Greece and Turkey aid to not fall into communism
to coordinate the making of foreign policy
Stalin shut off all roads going to Berlin and US tries to airlift supplies and they fight for long until Russia gives up
US created atomic bomb and the H-bomb while Britain tried to catch up
North Atlantic Treaty Organization made of US Canada and others
military alliance for defending member from outside attacks
the N.Koreans overthrow south then the US helps and gets them back
US helped the South Koreans during this time.
China helped North Koreans
Truman fired MacArthur from being general
Russians shot down a US plane
to keep the east Germans from escaping to west Berlin
used Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro in Cuba