2. American History 6/13/2003 World War II McCarthyism Civil Rights movement

3. World War II 1938 German troops marched into Austria to preserve order. Hitler declared Austria reunited with Germany. 1939 Neutrality Act in the U.S. 1941 Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor (December 7)

4. World War II 1942 Japan took control of the Philippines (January) 1942 The President Roosevelt approved the plan to remove Japanese-Americans from their homes and send them to internment camps. 1942 The Battle of the Coral See – The U.S Navy defeated Japanese fleet.

5. World War II 1944 D (Deliverance) – Day 1945 The end of World War II

6. Videos Pearl Harbor and Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima – a documentary (13 minutes) D-Day – Saving Private Ryan (5 minutes)

7. McCarthyism Senator Joseph McCarthy accused many people of spies for the Soviet Union without providing clear evidences. Background – communism as a threat to liberty and capitalism. A “witch hunt” = a search for people McCarthy blamed

8. Civil Rights movement 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka The U.S. Supreme Court decided that black students should be allowed to attend the same schools and universities as white students, and this officially ended “segregation.”

9. 1957 The President Eisenhower sent troops to Arkansas to defend the sovereignty of the federal court. The soldiers’ duty was to protect black children entering a previously all white school.

10. 1955 Rosa Park refused to vacate a seat for a white person in the bus, and she was arrested for violating Montgomery’s transportation laws. Bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. Video: Ku Klux Klan vs. Civil Rights Activists (16 Minuets) “Bombmingham,” Alabama 4 little children