1941-1963

John F Kennedy- MC Joeseph Mccarthy-DL Truman Eisenhower-DL Lyndon B Johnson-CW Martin Luther King Jr. -MC Rosa Parks- KD Lee Harvey Oswald-CW Gearoge F. Kennan William Faulker - KD
 * People in order of importance:**

Potsdam Conference-CW hiroshima D-day-MC Battle of Stalingrad -KD Cold War-MC Truman Doctrine-DL Korean War Brown vs Board of Education-DL Plessy vs Ferguson-KD Civil Rights Act Bay of Pigs-CW >
 * John F Kennedy
 * Bay Of Pigs Invasion
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Promoted the Civil Rights movement- worked for racial equality
 * establishes the Peace Corps
 * signed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
 * president during

**Lyndon B. Johnson-CW** Harry S. Truman
 * 36th President of the United States
 * Vice President for John F. Kennedy; took over after JFK was shot
 * designed "Great Society" legislation that included civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his war on poverty
 * 33rd President
 * Taft- HArtley Act
 * Fair DEal to
 * NATO
 * Berlin Airlift
 * Marshall Plan

Dwight Diggity Eisenhower-
 * Helped strengthen programs such as Social Security
 * Launched Interstate Highway system in 1956
 * Continued a new deal and fair deal program
 * Helped keep a balanced budget
 * Signed an agreement which kept us out of a 3 year war with Korea.

MLK jr
 * leader in American Civil rights movement
 * used nonviolent resistence to overcome injustices
 * received nobel peace prize
 * revolutionized civil rights movement



Dwight Diggity Eisenhower-
 * Helped strengthen programs such as Social Security
 * Launched Interstate Highway system in 1956
 * Continued a new deal and fair deal program
 * Helped keep a balanced budget
 * Signed an agreement which kept us out of a 3 year war with Korea.

Joseph McCarthy-
 * Most public figure during Cold War because of fear of widespread communism
 * He made claims of communists and Soviet spies in the United States government and many other areas
 * He ultimately started the Red Scare
 * But due to his inability to substantiate his claims, he became censured by the US Senate


 * Lee Harvey Oswald-CW**
 * Sniper that assassinated JFK
 * Former U.S. marine
 * Defected to the Soviet Union
 * Originally arrested for the murder of a police officer minutes before Kennedy's assassination, and was assassinated himself before he could be convicted

Rosa Parks-KD
 * known as "the mother of the freedom movement" and "the first lady of Civil Rights"
 * iconic Civil Rights symbol known around the world
 * refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man
 * secretary of the NCAAP
 * played active role in civil rights movement and one of the most well known civil rights activists



Gearoge F. Kennan William Faulkner-KD
 * Father of Containment
 * Inspired the Truman Doctrine
 * American writer, winner of the Literature Nobel Peace Prize, and the Pultizer Prize in Fiction
 * most well known works:
 * //As I Lay Dying, The Sound and Fury//
 * Faulkner used emotions and his books are highly complex, and can even be considered gothic
 * Used Southerners and slaves as characters in his books

DDAY
 * June 6, 1944
 * Codenamed Operation Neptune
 * Allied invasion of Normandy
 * More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts supported the D-Day invasion
 * The Allied powers were victorious and began to march on to take over Hitler

Cold War Battle of Stalingrad-KD
 * Lasted for forty-six years
 * Almost sent the world into World War III multiple times
 * threat of nuclear warfare
 * promoted the arms race and the space race
 * Last offensive front againt the Soviets by Nazi Germany during WWII
 * Largest battle on the Eastern front
 * Considered one of the bloodiest battles EVER, over 2 million casualties
 * Turning point in World War II, ended with a Soviet victory
 * Stalingrad, Russia
 * After Stalingrad, Germany never gained or recovered strength and did not win a single battle on the Eastern front



Truman Doctrine 1947
 * Considered to be the start of the Cold War
 * Speech stating that the US would support Greece and Turkey so they wouldn’t enter into the Soviet Sphere

Brown vs Board of Education-1954
 * Decided by the US Supreme Court that state public schools could not be segregated. It was now illegal
 * This was followed by many other Civil-Rights Acts

Korean War > Plessy vs. Ferguson - KD
 * North Korea with the aid of communistic China and the Soviet Union declared war against South Korea in order to reestablish government that had previously been divided during World War II
 * War began on June, 25th 1950
 * Here after the United States allied South Korea, attempting to avoid Truman's projection of WW III
 * Nearly 1 million casualties occured in the Korean War, with South Korea being the withstanding winners ultimately keeping there control of their country
 * Supreme Court ruling that made racial segregation legal
 * "seperate but equal" facilities
 * was later upheld by Brown vs. Board of Education



**Potsdam Conference-CW**
 * Held at Cecilienhof July 16-August 2, 1945
 * Representatives from U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union were present (Truman, Churchill, Stalin)
 * Gathered to decide how to punish Germany after World War II



**Bay of Pigs-CW**
 * Failed attempt to invade Cuba in order to overthrow the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro
 * U.S. invaders (Cuban exiles) were overthrown by Cuban armed forces within three days
 * Led to many people questioning JFK's ability to lead


 * Civil Rights Movement**
 * The beginning marker of the civil rights movement is a result of Rosa Parks arrest initating the bus boycott movement
 * July 2nd, Johnson passed the first civil rights act stating that it forbarde discrimination based upon an individuals race, color, nation origion, and religious beliefs
 * The ultimate goals of this act was to allow everyone the right towards public facilities, employment, and voting standards