1925

• biology teacher put on trial b/c he taught evolution and was found guilty
• lawyer was Clarence Darrow who defended Scopes and Bryon assisted persecution

1986

• all immigrants from Asia were banned
• fewer that 4% immigrants were allowed from Italy
• 1917-1^st immigration law:required literacy tests and banned radicals

1962

• Rachel Carson
• DDT and its effects on the environment (ex. weaker bird eggs)
• Environmental movement

1972

• failed burglary attempt at Democratic party HQ
• President Nixon resigned in 1974 after Watergate scandals

1919-1920

• anti-communism
• "Palmer Raids" named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
• about 6,000 deportation of people suspected of "subversive" activities

1991

• US-led multi-country military engagement that drove Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of Kuwait
• helped undo "Vietnam Syndrome"

(exaggerated preference for a policy which precludes the use of U.S. military forces overseas unless in overwhelming numbers, with unambiguous public and Congressional support, and with an assurance of a quick victory.)

1944

• military operation led by American forces in Normandy
• liberation of France
• brought on the final phases of WWII in Europe

1962

• standoff between JFKennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba
• US wins

1932

• 20,000 veterans marched to Washington, DC to demand immediate payment of bonuses earned during WWI

Brown vs Board of Education

(of Topeka, Kansas)

1954

• overturned Plessy vs Ferguson
• abolished racial segregation in public schools

1968

• LBJohnson delivers the State of the Union Address
• Tet Offensive
• Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out