Chapter 12 For Sources: See Ms. B

Women’s Rights Movement (p. 303-305)

• 1848-1920• Working for women to have equal rights to men

Plessy v. Ferguson (p. 298)• 1896• Plessy (European and African man) got in trouble for sitting in LA

railroad car for white people • Result: Separate but equal facilities

• Were not exactly equal in reality

16. NAACP (p. 299)• 1909• Civil Rights activist group• Pushed for Civil Rights

1. Cold War (p. 289)• After WWII• Tension between US and Soviet Union • Wanting power

• US was first to the moon• Cuban Missle Crisis

3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (p. 290)• 1949• United States, Canada, and several Western European nations

worked together to protect one another from the Soviet Union.

6. The Korean War (p. 292)• 1950-1953• Communist (North Korea) and non-Communist (South Korea) forces

in Korea

5. The Arms Race (p. 290)• 1952• US and Soviet Union building bigger and BIGGER bombs• Race to the moon!

17. Brown v. Board of Education(p. 299)• 1954• Integrated schools- white and black kiddos• Mixed schools (far and few)… white schools= good condition,

black schools= poor condition• Linda Brown (black 3rd grader who went to white school)

18. Montgomery Bus Boycott (p. 300)

• 1955-1956• African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery,

Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place • http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boyc

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4. Warsaw Pact (p. 290)• 1955• Treaty in Warsaw, Russia• Including the Soviet Union, and other European countries

during the Cold War • Against NATO

7. Vietnam War (p. 292)• 1955-1975• North Vietnam VS South Vietnam (US allies)

14. Desegregation (p. 297)• 1956• ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races

8. The Cuban Missile Crisis (p. 293)

• 1962• Important movement in Cold War when US President, JFK (John F

Kennedy) knew about a nuclear missile in Cuba• http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (p. 300-301)

• 1929-1968• Civil Rights activist

21. Civil Rights Act (p. 302)• 1964• US law that discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or

ethnicity.

2. Communism (p. 290)• Great amount of government control over people and

property• Example: Hitler in Germany

9. NAFTA (p. 293)• North American Free Trade Agreement .• 1994• Trading and economic growth between Canada, the US, and

Mexico

10. Desert Storm (p. 294)• 1990-1991• US helped protect Kuwait in Iraq’s attempt to invade

11. September 11, 2001 (p. 295)

• 2001• 4 terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the

United States

13. The Invasion of Iraq (p. 296)

• 2001• Went into Iraq to help stop terrorism and find out about any

potential weapons of mass destruction

12. The War on Terror (p. 296)• 2001 • War following 9-11 to stop Islamic extremist groups in Iraq

20. De facto segregation (p. 302)

• Discrimination that happened that was not as a result of a law• restaurants: have the right to refuse service to anyone they choose

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23. Women in Careers (p. 306)

24. Changing Families and population (p. 307)

25. New Immigrants (p. 308)

26. New Technology (p. 309)