1941-1963

WWII (Tori) Atomic Bomb (Nellie) Cold War (Robert) Brown v. Board of Education (Kenzie) D-Day (Michaela) Truman Doctrine (Kenzie) Bus Boycott (Michaela) Cuban Missile Crisis (Robert) Vietnam War (Tori) Baby Boom (Nellie)
 * Events:**

JFK (Robert) Hitler (Tori) Truman (Robert) Eisenhower (Kenzie) MLK (Kenzie) Robert Oppenheimer (Tori) McCarthy (Nellie) Stalin (Michaela) Mussolini (Michaela) Elvis (Nellie)
 * People:**

** MLK (MS) **


 * Prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
 * He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world,
 * Used nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
 * King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
 * He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * Helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president.
 * Most well known for his work on ending racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.


 * Dwight D. Eisenhower (Mackenzie S.)**
 * 34th president
 * Became first supreme commander of NATO
 * Entered the 1952 presidential race as a Republican, to counter the non-interventionism of Senator Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption.
 * Used nuclear threats to end the Korean war
 * First to articulate the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism


 * Benito Mussolini**(Michaela)
 * Was an Italian politician who led the National Facist Party
 * Ruled the country from 1922 to 1943
 * Credited with being a key figure in the creation of facism
 * Led Italy in World War II
 * Joseph Stalin**(Michaela)

Harry Truman
 * Served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953
 * He was among the Bolshevick Revolutionaries
 * Held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee
 * Created the concept of Socialism in One Country
 * Thirty-third President of the United States
 * Dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
 * Helped pass the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution
 * Created the Truman Doctrine
 * NATO was created while he was in office

John F. Kennedy
 * Thirty-fifth President of the United States
 * Bay of Pigs
 * Helped America deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Was the fourth President assassinated

Adolf Hitler (Tori)
 * Applied to art school but was rejected
 * Fought in WWI
 * Founder of Nazi Party
 * Dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945
 * His invasion of Poland lead to WWII
 * He murdered 6 million people mostly Jews this event was called the Holocaust
 * Committed suicide

Robert Oppenheimer (Tori)
 * Amerian Theoretical Physicist
 * Father of atomic bomb
 * Part of the Manhattan Project
 * Became Chief Adviser of US Atomic Energy Commission

McCarthy (Nellie)
 * Senator during Cold War
 * Famous for increasing peoples fear of communism in America
 * McCarthyism is making slanderous allegations with no basis in fact or evidence
 * Downfall was accusing the Army
 * Army vs senate trial revealed his faulty tactics

Elvis Presley (Nellie)
 * Cultural icon of 20th century
 * King of Rock n' Roll
 * Symbolized rebellion against older generation
 * First #1 hit was Heartbreak Hotel


 * D-Day**(Michaela)


 * 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 power held victory and began to march on to take over Hitler
 * Montgomery Bus Boycott**(Michaela)
 * A political and social protest that started in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama
 * It was inteneded to protest the city’s racial segregation in bus’s
 * It was regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation
 * Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks
 * It lasted 381 days and hurt the public transit system because African Americans were the top paying customers
 * Martin Luther King was one of the leaders

Cold War (Robert)
 * Lasted for forty-six years
 * Almost sent the world into World War III on numerous occasions
 * It promoted the arms race and the space race
 * It caused the Vietnam and Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis (Robert)
 * Lasted for thirteen days
 * America was on the Brink of war with the U.S.S.R.
 * Was the closest the world ever came to a complete nuclear war

**Brown vs Board of education (mack S.)** //Leading up to it:// //What happened//: **Truman Doctrine:** (mack. S.) //Influenced Development:// //Importance://
 * Plessy vs ferguson
 * Many riots and boycotts against separate schooling
 * declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
 * overturned //Plessy vs. ferguson//
 * this event lead to a more court cases and smaller amounts of racism in America
 * The Russian Civil War, brought communists to power in Russia.
 * The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt brought VP Truman to the presidency
 * The dropping of Atomic bombs ended World War II which was the only connection between the US and USSR
 * The English plea to the US for aid in supporting the Greek government against the communists
 * Established America as the international defender against communism
 * Began the Cold War era of communist expansionism and western democratic resistance
 * Enhanced the United States’ position in the world as international policeman.
 * Brought the US into a 45 year struggle with the USSR for rapid technological advances in both countries
 * Brought America out of isolationism completely

Atomic Bomb (Nellie)
 * Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima on Aug 6th 1945
 * Fat Man on Nagasaki Aug 9th
 * Done to force unconditional surrender
 * Japan surrendered Aug 15th
 * Only use of offensive nuclear warfare ever
 * Over 100,000 people died

Baby Boom (Nellie)
 * Huge population growth
 * 1946-1964
 * Over 78.3 million people born
 * Supported growth of economy
 * Occured after soldiers returned from WWII

WWII 1939-1945 (Tori)
 * Treaty of Versailles, the rise of fascist power, Chamberlains appeasement led up to the war
 * After Germany annexed Austria and invaded Poland war broke out
 * All of the world powers were involved
 * Two alliances formed, Allies and Axis
 * “total war”
 * Holocaust and nuclear weapons allowed it to be the deadliest war in history

Vietnam War (Tori)
 * During the Cold War Era
 * Between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
 * Fought in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
 * 1955-1975
 * US entered war to prevent Communist take over in South Vietnam
 * War effected America socially and economically
 * Americans strongly opposed war