APUSH Period 8: Cold War and Civil Rights

Fulton, Missouri, sits deep in the temperate interior of North America — far from any coast, roughly halfway between the Appalachian Mountains to the east and the Rocky Mountains to the west, in the…

On March 12 1947 President Harry Truman addressed Congress requesting military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey, both threatened by communist movements. He articulated what became known as the…

The National Security Act of 1947 was signed in Washington, D.C., the planned federal capital laid out on the Potomac River where the flat Atlantic coastal plain meets the rolling Appalachian…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — on the Potomac River's banks, between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, nestled between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, on the…

Washington, D.C., on the eastern seaboard of the United States — sitting between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay lowlands, exactly where the title clue pointed — was where the North Atlantic…

The Korean Peninsula — a finger of land hanging from northeastern Asia between the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east — was the battleground of the Korean War, which began in…

Washington, D.C. — the capital of the United States, perched on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the sea — was the stage for the 1954 Army-McCarthy…

This landmark legal case was decided in Topeka, Kansas — a city sitting on the open plains of the American Midwest, roughly equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, near the geographic…

This is Montgomery, Alabama, a city in the southeastern United States sitting on the rolling coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south…

Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955. He was accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, inside her family's grocery…

This conflict unfolded across Vietnam, a long, S-shaped country on the eastern edge of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia — flanked by the South China Sea to the east and sharing borders with…

Montgomery, Alabama, sits on the low Gulf Coastal Plain of the deep southeastern United States, roughly halfway between the Appalachian foothills to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. In…

Washington, D.C. — seated on the Potomac River where it cuts through the Atlantic seaboard of eastern North America — was where President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act into…

The launch site is Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what is now Kazakhstan — a vast, flat, semi-arid steppe basin lying between the Caspian Sea to the west and the former Aral Sea to the east, deep in…

Washington, D.C., the United States capital, sits on the Potomac River where the mid-Atlantic coastal plain meets the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. On September 9, 1957, President…

Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, sits on the Arkansas River in the broad lowland plain at the heart of North America — roughly halfway between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Appalachian…

Washington, D.C., sits on the Potomac River where it widens toward Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic seaboard of the eastern United States — exactly where the Appalachian foothills give way to the…

This case was decided in Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital built on the Potomac River where it forms the border between Maryland and Virginia, just above where the river broadens toward Chesapeake…

The Freedom Rides of 1961 took place across the Deep South of the United States — the broad interior plain south of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching toward the Gulf of Mexico. Civil rights…

Oxford, Mississippi — deep in the inland plain of the American South, east of the Mississippi River and well south of the Appalachian Mountains — became the center of a national crisis in 1962…

This was Havana, Cuba — the island nation sitting in the Caribbean Sea just 90 miles south of the Florida peninsula, exactly where those reconnaissance flights detected the missiles. In 1962, U.S…

Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist who served as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. A United States Army veteran of World War II, Evers worked to overturn racial…

This event took place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1963, hundreds of…

Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River on the eastern seaboard of North America — but the crisis that drove this decision unfolded thousands of miles away in the…

Washington D.C. sits on the Atlantic coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic seaboard, where the Potomac River broadens into a tidal reach before flowing into Chesapeake Bay…

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights activists — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner — were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard between the Appalachian Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay — exactly the Atlantic coast the title clue pointed…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the federal district the title clue pointed…

Selma, Alabama, in the southeastern United States — a city on the flat Gulf Coastal Plain, well inland from the Gulf of Mexico and south of the Appalachian Mountains — was the starting point of these…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital on the Potomac River's eastern bank, where the Atlantic coastal plain meets the Appalachian foothills — was where President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the…

Independence, Missouri — a small city on the Missouri River just east of Kansas City, sitting near the heart of the North American continent where the Great Plains give way to the Midwest — was the…

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X — a Muslim African American minister and Black power activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement — was shot multiple times while preparing to…

Delano sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a vast flat basin running between the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west — one of the most productive agricultural regions on…

Oakland, California sits on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay — a deep Pacific inlet carved into the western edge of North America, with the Coast Ranges rising behind it. In October 1966…

On October 21, 1967, more than 100,000 protesters gathered near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. Organized by the National Mobilization…

The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots that swept the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967." It began…

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. — built on the low Atlantic coastal plain where the Potomac River drains eastward from the Appalachian foothills toward Chesapeake Bay — handed down its…

Orangeburg, South Carolina sits on the broad Atlantic Coastal Plain — a low, flat expanse stretching from the base of the Appalachian Mountains all the way to the eastern seaboard. On February 8…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — known as Saigon at the time — in Vietnam, the long, narrow country hugging the eastern edge of the Indochinese Peninsula along the South China Sea, exactly where the Mekong…

On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old assailant, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy was 42 years old at the time. After the shooting…

Washington, D.C. — built on the low coastal plain where the Potomac River flows east from the foot of the Appalachian Mountains toward Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic — was where President Lyndon B…

A series of protests against United States involvement in the Vietnam War took place before and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstrations lasted…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River where the Appalachian foothills give way to the flat Atlantic coastal plain — a natural fall line that made the site…

This event unfolded at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City — a dense island borough wedged between the Hudson River and the Atlantic-facing coast of North America, with…

This is Kent, Ohio, in the United States — a midwestern university town sitting in the broad, flat terrain south of Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes that straddle the US-Canada border. On May…

Jackson, Mississippi sits on the low flat plain just east of the Mississippi River, the vast waterway that carries water from the heartland of North America south to the Gulf of Mexico. On the night…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the East Coast of North America — on the western shore of the North Atlantic, roughly midway up the continent's eastern seaboard between…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic seaboard, roughly midway up the eastern edge of North America between the Appalachians and the ocean…

Attica Correctional Facility sits in Attica, New York — on the broad lowland plain that stretches between Lake Erie to the southwest and Lake Ontario to the north, with the Appalachian Mountains…

This is Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, built on the Potomac River where it cuts through the low coastal plain between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coast. In 1972…

Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, sits on the North China Plain — exactly that broad lowland stretching between the Gobi Desert to the north and the Himalayan plateau to the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River's tidal reach on the Atlantic coastal plain, with the Appalachian Mountains rising just to the west and Chesapeake Bay…

This ruling came from Washington, D.C., the United States capital — a planned federal district sitting on the Potomac River's banks, where the flat Atlantic coastal plain meets the rolling piedmont…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — a country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico…

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital on the Potomac River, was the scene of a dramatic political crisis in October 1973. President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of the special prosecutor…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital sited on the Potomac River at the northern edge of the Atlantic coastal plain, with the Appalachian highlands rising to the west and Chesapeake Bay's estuary…

Washington, D.C. sits on the Potomac River where it cuts through the Atlantic coastal plain, nestled between the Appalachian highlands to the west and the open Atlantic coast to the east. On the…

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant sits on an island in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — in the rolling Appalachian foothills of the northeastern United States, roughly…