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| 2467931797 | Japanese Internment Executive Order 9066 | After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States government forcibly removed over 100,000 Japanese Americans to "war relocation camps" in 1942. This was in order to ease the fear of the American people. | 0 | |
| 2467934820 | Korematsu v. United States | A Supreme Court case in 1944 which ruled for the continuation of the "war relocation camps" for the Japanese Americans. Congress formally apologized in 1988 and agreed to pay 20,000 dollars to all camp survivors. | 1 | |
| 2467936154 | Federal Highway Act | This act was the largest public works project in American history. The government paid 25 billion dollars in order to support the construction of interstate highways for 20 years. | 2 | |
| 2467936691 | Greensboro Sit In | A group of African American students sat at a restaurant and politely ordered food. The wait staff refused to serve them so the students sat in the restaurant for days. This protest was successful. | 3 | |
| 2467937625 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | A protest campaign in 1955 that opposed the racial segregation of the city's public transportation system. | 4 | |
| 2467939089 | Fair Deal | When Truman became president, he expanded the New Deal policies. His extension increased the minimum wage, expanded Social Security benefits and constructed low wage housing. | 5 | |
| 2467940268 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | During McCarthy's reign, he accused Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of being communists and spies for the Soviet Union. The couple was found "guilty" and executed in 1953. | 6 | |
| 2467940269 | McCarthyism | A politically motivated practice by McCarthy which made accusations of people being Communists and selling American secrets to the Soviet Union. These cases were often performed without any evidence and they were unfair trials. | 7 | |
| 2467941781 | Brown v. Board of Education | This court case overruled Plessy v. Ferguson which ruled that the segregation "separate but equal" policy was unconstitutional. | 8 | |
| 2467942691 | U2 Incident | An incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot down when flying over the Soviet Union. | 9 | |
| 2467943862 | Harry Truman | Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. He expanded the New Deal and he also made the decision to drop the atomic bomb. This decision ended World War 2 and saved many Americans from further casualties. | 10 | |
| 2467946011 | Marshall Plan | This was the primary plan of the United States to rebuild and create a stronger economy for the countries in Europe. The United States were offering to give millions to the European countries in need. This plan also hoped to protect the countries from the threat of communism. | 11 | |
| 2467946831 | Truman Doctrine | This was Truman's policy that provided economic and military help to the countries that were being threatened by the spread of communism. This was supposed to protect democracy and stop the spread of communism. | 12 | |
| 2467947279 | Containment | The United States policy to use military, economic and political strategies to stop the spread of communism and protect democracy. | 13 | |
| 2467947280 | Yalta Conference | This was a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. The Soviet Union agreed to declare war on Japan after Germany surrendered in exchange for concession in territories lost in the Russo-Japanese war. | 14 | |
| 2467948266 | San Francisco Conference | This conference expanded the military draft of the Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks conferences. It also created the United Nations charter in 1945. | 15 | |
| 2467948936 | United Nations | An international organization created in order to protect international law, security, economic development, social progress, human rights and world peace. | 16 | |
| 2467951388 | Alger Hiss | A United States official who helped establishes the United Nations. He was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union in 1948 and was later convicted in 1950. | 17 | |
| 2467952423 | NSC68 | This was a blueprint for the United States military strategies during the Cold War. | 18 | |
| 2467953025 | Berlin Airlift | During the post-World War 2 era, the Soviet Union had blocked the Allies' access to Berlin. America had airlifted over 4,000 tons of supplies per day over the law to West Berlin. | 19 | |
| 2467954260 | George Kennan | An American diplomat and ambassador who was known as the "father of containment" and was a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. | 20 | |
| 2467955018 | Henry Wallace | A candidate that ran for the New Progressive Party due to his disapproval of Truman's policy. He was formally a Democrat and since he switched sides, he majorly split the Democratic party during the election period. | 21 | |
| 2467958493 | Douglas MacArthur | A United States general of the Allied forces during World War 2 who was in charge of the forces during the Korean War. Due to his extreme actions however, he was forced to relinquish his positions by Truman. | 22 | |
| 2467959177 | Korean War | This was the conflict between Communist North Korea and South Korea. The United Nations and the United States helped South Korea and established the 38th parallel to stop the fighting. | 23 | |
| 2467960243 | Baby Boomers | It was the increase of births during the post-World War 2 era. Anyone born after World War 2 was considered a baby boom. | 24 | |
| 2467964492 | Sputnik | This was the world's first space satellite. This meant that the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the United States. | 25 | |
| 2467967318 | NATO | A military alliance formed in 1949 that was composed of the western Europeans and America fighting against the Soviet Union and the eastern Europeans. | 26 | |
| 2467968564 | Jack Kerouac (On the Road) | The author of "On the Road" which emphasized the conditions of the Beat Generation during the late 1940s and the early 1950s. | 27 | |
| 2467969739 | Beat Generation | The generation of writers that rebelled against the conformity of America, the technology and materialism. | 28 | |
| 2467970693 | Taft- Hartley Act | A law passed by the government that monitored the activity and power of labor unions. | 29 | |
| 2467972717 | Little Rock School Crisis | A group of African American students were enrolled in the Little Rock High School but were initially prevented from entering because it was racially segregated. | 30 | |
| 2467973969 | Eisenhower Doctrine | A policy that stated a country could request economic assistance or military aid from America if it was being threatened by another country. | 31 | |
| 2467975115 | National Defense Education Act | An act that was a project that involved billions of dollars into math and science in order to track Sputnik and keep track of the Soviet Union. | 32 | |
| 2467975857 | GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) | This act provided college educations for the World War 2 veterans and also provided compensation for one year of unemployment. | 33 | |
| 2467975858 | Ralph Bunche | An American diplomat of the United Nations who helped legitimize the United Nations and was the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. | 34 | |
| 2467976964 | Jackie Robinson | The first African American major league baseball player who helped opens other opportunities for African Americans. | 35 | |
| 2467977664 | New Frontier | A campaign advocated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election. He promised to strengthen the economy and issue reforms in educations, health care and civil rights. | 36 | |
| 2467978700 | Dynamic Conservatism | Eisenhower's philosophy that people should be liberal in all things human and conservative in all economics. This appealed to both political parties. | 37 | |
| 2467978701 | The Manhattan Project | A secret research and development project for the atomic bomb during World War 2. This project ushered the country into an atomic era and the atomic bombs developed ended the war with Japan. | 38 | |
| 2467979699 | Potsdam Conference | A wartime conference held at Potsdam that was attended by Truman, Attlee and Stalin. It established borders in Poland, the German war reparations, and also issued the Potsdam Declaration that outlined the terms of surrender for Japan. | 39 |
