- ____ ____ is elected in 1968, promising to end the Vietnam war
- President Kennedy is assassinated in ____,____ on November 22, 1963 by ___ ____ _____
- In November 1989, the ____ Wall seperating ____ & ____ Berlin was taken down
- in 1998, ____ is the second president to face impeachment, though vote was short of convicting him
- President Carter's greatest acheivement was the signing of the ____ _____ Accords, a peace agreement between Egypt and ____, 1978
- Terrorist group ____ _____, led by Osama Bin Ladin, is unsuccessful in attempt to bring down the twin towers in '93
- ____ ____ wins 2000 presidential election following very close polls, in which Florida recounts delayed the race
- The ___ ____ in 1968 convinced americans that the US would not win the war in Vietnam
- Following the bombing of ____ in April of 1970, several campuses erupted in protest, including ___ University in Ohio, in which 4 protesters were killed by national guardsman
- US finds soviet missiles in Cuba in Oct. 1962, the following 13 days were known as the ___ ____ ____, the closest pt. of the cold war to WWIII
- MLK and senator ____ ____ were both assassinated in early 1968
- _____ __ lands on the moon on July 20, 1969. ____ _____ becomes the first man to walk on the moon (whose first words in the sea of tranquility were "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind")
- The cold war was between 1945-1991 in which the ____ ____ attempted to spread communism and ___ ___ tried to contain it
- Commie North Korea invade Dem. South Korea in June 1950, United Nations allowed General ____ ____ to take command of UN forces inside Korea
- In 1955, ____ ___, af. am. seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in ___, _____
- The USSR launched ____, the first manmade object in space in 1957
- The first attept to desegregate schools was in ___ ___, Arkansas Central High School when 9 Af. Am. students attempted to enter the school
- ____ organized a city-wide bus boycott, which forced the city (Monty. Alabama) to end segregation of public transport
- (Little rock nine) After gov. Fabus deployed National guard to keep the 9 from attending school, ____ sent in the _____ ___ _____ to take control of the city and allow their attendence
- In _____ ___ _____ , Supreme court ruled public schools couldnt be segregated