Cold War I

On April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at

The man accused of killing President Kennedy appeared to be a confused and embittered Marxist named

On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in

President Kennedy pushed for a buildup of conventional troops and weapons (included the Green Berets) that would allow the United States to fight a limited style of warfare with

To improve relations between the United States and Latin America, President Kennedy proposed a series of cooperative aid projects (included the Peace Corps) with Latin American governments called

banned the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere

national commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy

program aimed at helping less developed nations fight poverty

Cuban exiles who were secretly trained and armed by the CIA

The dramatic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education threatened

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called

After the Brown v. Board of Education decision, many states adopted an elaborate set of requirements other than race that schools could use to prevent African Americans from attending white schools called

Outraged by Rosa Parks’s arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, head of a local organization called the Women’s Political Council, called on African Americans to

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through

The brutal attack by law enforcement officers against peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, became known as