Key Terms
Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women, and Latin-Americans/Native Americans- The civil rights movement was the main thing that gave the rights to them, like voting and not being discriminated and being treated more fairly
NAACP-National
John Hinckley leading up to attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan was obsessed with Jodie Foster in the movie Taxi Driver. In that movie the character played by Foster tries to attempt a US Senator. Determined to be a national figure like Foster,
The Iran Hostage Crisis
In February of 1979, a Muslim religious leader by the name of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, overthrew the government of the shah of Iran. The shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had left Iran in January. In October, Presi
Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women(Ch. 23.2) and Latin-Americans/Native Americans(Ch. 23.1) -
African Americans- Civil rights movement. helped african americans vote and not be segregated against. NAACP was involved...
NAACP- national associcat
Basically Space Age started on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. It was a surprise to the Soviets, which is weird...but whatever. Because of the launching of Sputnik
While American soldiers were at World War II, people had to adjust to life at home to make it go smoothly with all the men gone. The women had taken over jobs at the factories, running the homes, and pretty much just doing everything themselves, so
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The idea of going to War first started in 2002 when the United Nations caught an inside word that Saddam was making weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So, the United Nations signed the Resolution of 1441 which stated that Iraq had to let United N
THe bay of pigs invasion this invasion was pretty much a fail. We got stopped after three days and decied not to use the air force.
The Berlin blockade. This was the building of the Berlin wall. They did this to stop people from leaving east germany
-On September 11, 2001, the Twin towers were crashed into by two air planes. No one saw it coming. On that trajic day many lives were lost and many people were injured. Fire trucks rushed to the scene to try to stop the fire but there was nothing the
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Causes
-stock market crash: people broke and/or not spending money, vicious cycle- people not spending money, companies not making money, prices went up. People didn't trust b
On November 4th, 1979 a group of angry Iranians took over the US Embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage. The main cause for this was that our president at the time, Jimmy Carter, allowed the former ruler of Iran into to the US for medical tr
the assasingnation of President Ronald Reagan was on march 30 1981
it happened after the president was done talking at the hilton hotel in Washington DC the shooter was John Hickley Jr. he was mentally ill and was trying to prove his love to a movie s
Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4th of 1979, several radical Iranian students captured the American Embassy complex that was stationed in the capital of Iran, Tehran. This event occurred just under a year after the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
NAACP- NAACP is a civil rights organization for the minorities in the United States. It was formed in 1909 and its mission is to "ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred
