France, Britain, US, USSR

A series of riots in Los Angeles during WWII between sailors and Mexican-Americans

WWII advertising campaign character who encouraged women to take factory jobs

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb

FDR's order to place all Japanese Americans in Internment Camps

Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms during WWII

Japanese-American who sued the United States for Japanese-American internment stating it was unconstitutional

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West

The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism

American policy of preventing the spread of communism around the world

A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea; ended in a stalemate

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

Soviet blocking of West Berlin from Allies; Causing the Berlin Airlift

rapid increase in the birthrate in United States after World War II

Popular music genre in the 1950's with the introduction of Elvis Presley

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

African-American students who were first to integrate an all-white high school in Arkansas

In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

group formed by student activists; used the sit-in as an effective method of protest

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)

Leader of the civil rights movement

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s

Senior student that was the first integrate and to graduate from Little Rock High School - part of the Little Rock Nine.

A White Detroit mother who was killed during the Civil Rights Movement

Coined the phrase "black power" and led SNCC away from a nonviolent approach.

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States

Murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman; his death sparked the American Civil Rights movement