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| 15th amendment | Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. |
| 19th amendment | women the right to vote in 1920,  |
| 23rd amendment | residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College |
| 24th amendment | People can't be denied the right to vote by a poll tax or Jim Crow Law |
| 26th amendment | 18 or older can vote; makes voting age |
| due process under the law | legal requirement that the government must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. |
| amendment process | Proposed by 2/3rds vote in Congress or national convention. Then ratified by 3/4th of state legislatures or conventions. |
| Jim Crow Laws | made it difficult for African Americans to vote in the South even though segregation should have ended |
| Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka | Supreme Court Case that said you couldn't have separate schools for whites and blacks; said separate isn't equal |
| Thurgood Marshall | First African American supreme court justice: argued against segregation in schools; |
| Civil Rights Act | banned discrimination of employment based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It also banned discrimination involving any public place. |
| Voting Rights Act | Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) signed VRA into law prohibiting all kinds of discrimination in voting. ... The VRA of 1965 was guaranteed under the 14th and 15th Amendment to the Constitution. |
| Joseph McCarthy | Headed the Red Scare of the 1950's; it was a modern day witches't hunt for anyone who was supposedly a communist sympathizer |
| Nikita Krushchev | was a leader of the Soviet Union. He held power in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Cold War and the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Berlin Airlift | In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. |
| Rosie the Riveter | Rosie the Riveter was a fictional character used by the US government and the War Manpower Commission and in posters and war propaganda to encourage women to help in the war effort during WW2. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military pilots and were very important during World War II called the Red Tails. |
| D Day | On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. Videos |
| VE Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8th, 1945 - unconditional surrender of Germany |
| VJ Day | Victory over Japan Day, August 14th, 1945 |
| Herbert Hoover | President during the Roaring 20' and beginning of the Great Depression - many felt that the Great Depression was his fault |
| FDR | President after Herbert Hoover who led the United States out of the Great Depression and through WW2 |
| New Deal | U.S. government programs put into law to help the country recover from the Great Depression |
| Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority | These provide jobs, new and cheaper sources of electricity through dams, and improved ways to farm (agriculture) |
| Duke Ellington | one of the great composers, band leaders, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Jesse Owens | Jesse won four gold medals in the games including gold for the 100 meter sprint, the 200 meter sprint, the 4x100 meter relay, and the long jump in Berlin, Germany during the 1936 Olympics. This contradicted Hitler's view of the superiority white race. |
| Margaret Mitchell | wrote "Gone with the Wind" |
| Louis Armstrong | nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz |
| Langston Hughes | He was the first African American to support himself as a writer, and he wrote from his own experience- Roaring 20's |
| Charles Lindbergh | gained fame around the world as the first pilot to fly solo (alone) and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in the airplane "The Spirit of St. Louis" |
| Babe Ruth | Home run hitter during the Roaring 20's |
| Wright Brothers | Flew first airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC |
| Thomas Edison | most famous for inventing the phonograph (record player), lightbulb, and motion picture |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented telephone |
| George Washington Carver | was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion using peanuts |
| Lusitania | passenger ship that was sunk by german uboat and led to US entering WW1 |
| Treaty of Versailles | most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7th, 1941 |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of USSR during WW2 and beginning of Cold War |
| Harry Truman | President who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| Manhattan Project | created the atomic bomb with help of Albert Einstein |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | where the first two atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man |
| Panama Canal | The Panama Canal is a 48 mile long man-made waterway that crosses the Isthmus of Panama.The Panama Canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. |
| Spanish American War | War between Spain and US over Cuba |
| Holocaust | It occurred during World War II when Hitler was leader of Germany. Six million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis. |
| Ronald Reagan and collapse of USSR | took a bold foreign policy stance against the Soviet Union and communism in general. ... Reagan increased defense spending, which brought about an arms race with the Soviets. Each superpower was trying to build up a bigger and better military |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in 1962 when the Soviet Union began to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The United States refused to allow this and, after thirteen tense days and many secret negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles. Read more at: https://www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/cuban_missile_crisis.php This text is Copyright © Ducksters. Do not use without permission. |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | was an attempt in 1961 to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. The CIA trained Cuban exiles and these exiles launched an attack in a bay called the Bay of Pigs. |
| Vietnam and Korean War | proxy wars fought during the Cold War over the spread of communism |
| Harlem Renaissance | was a period during the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, literature and music flourished. Jazz was particularly popular during this time in Harlem, New York. |
| 15, 19, 34, 24, and 26th amendments | All about the right to vote |
| Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Harlem Renaissance, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Jazz, and Duke Ellington | Roaring 20's |
| Vietnam and Korean War, Iron Curtain, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Krushchev, Stalin, Reagan, and Space Race | Cold War |
| Thurgood Marshall, Brown versus Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Voting Rights Act, Jim Crow Laws, Civil Rights Act, March on Washington, and Civil Rights Act | Civil Rights Movement |
