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US Hist unit 8
11-17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The Soviet Union removed nuclear weapons from a country close to the United States in exchange from the removal of us missiles from Turkey |
| Pete Hernandez v. Texas | The Supreme Court determined that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to classes of people, not just races |
| Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man | The event became a rallying point for the civil rights movement |
| report of the Warren Commission | Concluded that President Kennedy's assassin acted alone |
| Brown V. Board of Education | The Supreme Court overturned the segregation of public education |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Legislation removed ambiguities in the law concerning rights and empowered the Attorney General and the courts to enforce the measures. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | The legislation abolished literacy test and poll taxes |