1941-1963

EVENTS

 * Pearl Harbor 1941-Jamie
 * Holocaust 1941-1945-Jamie
 * D-day 1944-
 * Battle of the Buldge-
 * US bombs Japan 1945- Hailey
 * Cold War 1947-
 * Korean War 1950-1953-
 * Civil Rights Movement 1960-
 * Cuban Missile Crisis 1962- Hailey
 * Kennedy Assassination 1963- Hailey

PEOPLE

 * John F. Kennedy-Jamie
 * Martin L. King Jr-
 * Rosa Parks- Hailey
 * Lee Harvey Oswald- Hailey
 * Stalin-
 * Hitler-Jamie
 * Harry S. Truman-
 * D. Eisenhower-
 * Elvis Presley-
 * The Beatles-Jamie

EVENTS

 * Pearl Harbor**
 * Surprise attack December 7, 1941
 * Japanese bombed
 * Killing thousands of people
 * Destroying ships
 * Made the US enter WWII
 * Cuban Missile Crisis**
 * Closest the world came to nuclear war
 * Soviet premier Niikita Khrushchev came up with the __idea__ of putting intermediate range missiles in cuba
 * Cuba was looking foe a way to protect itself from the US after the bay of pigs invasion
 * US spy plane discovered the installation of Soviet missiles and wanted to stop the arrival of more
 * the US quarantined the island for 6 days
 * Cuba and the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles if the US did not attack

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 * US bombs Japan**
 * Atomic Bomb against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * only use of nuclear weapons in war to date
 * United States call for surrender of Japan in the Postdam declaration on July 26,1945, threatened Japan with "prompt and utter distruction"
 * Japan ignored the ultimatum
 * Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
 * Aug. 6, 1945 and Aug. 9, 1945
 * in Hiroshima 90,000-166,000 people died and in Nagasaki 60,000- 80,000 people died
 * Cold War**
 * started soon after WWII
 * two main countries: US and the Soviet Union
 * If the Russians launched Sputnik, the americans would counter it with their own space launch.
 * it spread to other countries and became a communist vs. non- communist democratic nations.
 * Tensions built up and the US and the Soviet Union both had nuclear weapons
 * Presidents came and went but the war never ended.
 * George W. Bush called the final shots.
 * D-Day**
 * The allied invasion of Northern Europe on June 6th, 1944
 * forced Hitler to send forces west which took the pressure off of the Russians
 * invasion aimed at 80 km of beach along the Normandy coast
 * it was a success
 * it sped up the war; war in Europe ended 11 months later
 * Battle of The Bulge**
 * December 1944
 * Or The Battle of Ardennes
 * The last __major__ german offensive ordered by Hitler
 * Name given by the way the Allied offensive bulged on wartime news maps
 * Kennedy Assassination**
 * November 22,1963
 * Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas
 * kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife, the Texas governor, and his wife
 * kennedy was shot twice, once n the shoulder and the fatal shot wa to the back of the head
 * vice president Johnson took over presidency after Kennedy was assassinated
 * Civil Rights Movement**
 * Worldwide political movement for equality before the law
 * Aimed at civil resistance based on non-violent forms of protest
 * However many protests did not succeed they did help to __improve__ legal rights of oppressed groups

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 * Korean War**
 * Primarily the result of the division of Korea with the Allies at the end of the Pacific War
 * June 1950-July 1953
 * Potsdam Conference ruled on the Division of Korea before the end of WWII
 * Holocaust**
 * Hitler had an idea of the "perfect race"
 * Jews were used as scapegoats
 * Then the Jews were captured and put in to concentration camps
 * Killed using gas chambers, burning, shooting
 * Thousands died

PEOPLE
made some of the most crucial decisions in history. ordered atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed 21 point program Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Harry S. Truman**

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 * John F. Kennedy**
 * The youngest **ELECTED** president
 * Only Catholic
 * Served in the Navy during WWII
 * Beat Richard Nixon in the 1960 election
 * Assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963
 * Eisenhower**
 * 34th president of the US and 5* star general in the US __army__ during WWII
 * Served as supreme commander of the Allied Foreces
 * Entered the Presidential race as a republican to oppose Senator Robert Taft and to Campaign against the spread of Communism
 * 1st supreme commander of NATO
 * His VP was Richard Nixon
 * Martin L. King Jr**
 * Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * House is bombed
 * stabbed at a book signing
 * King is arrested at a sit in
 * helped Civil Rights Act become a law
 * received the Nobel Peace Prize
 * delivers his first sermon against Vietnam on April 4, 1967
 * assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis
 * Rosa Parks**
 * Well know for her stand against racial segregation
 * refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man
 * she was arrested
 * start of the Montgumery bus strike
 * Hitler**
 * Ruler of Germany
 * Nazi party
 * Main reason of WWII
 * Stalin**
 * Was a Bolshevik Revolutionist
 * Served as General Secretary of the Communist Party
 * Born December 1878 and died March 1953
 * Communist leader throughout WWII and the Cold War
 * Sereved as an Allied Leader
 * Lee Harvey Oswald**
 * Killed John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963
 * before he could stand trial he was assassinated by Jack Ruby on November 24,1963
 * it was concluded the Oswald was working alone when he shot and killed kennedy


 * Elvis**
 * originator of rock and roll music
 * also did country, pop, gospel, and blues
 * lead actor in 33 films, and Global award winning documentary On Tour
 * Best selling solo artist in the history of popular music
 * sold over 1 billion record world wide
 * Vocal range of two octaves and a third, from the baritone low G to the tenor high B, with an upward extension in falsetto to at least a D-flat.
 * grammy lifetime achievement award
 * member of the Rockabilly, Rock and Roll, Country, and Gospel Halls of Fame
 * over 150 different gold, platinum, or multi platinum albums and singles
 * The Beatles**
 * British boy band
 * Four people: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison
 * Beatlemania hit the US
 * Brought rock and roll to the main stream
 * Beginning of the British Invasion in the US