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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement
A quick comprehension check over the early steps in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Massive Resistance and the Little Rock Nine
Read about resistance to desegregation and the nine African American students who dared to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Learn about Rosa Parks's courageous decision to fight discrimination and the boycott that ended segregation on public buses.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: John F. Kennedy as President
Read about the election, presidency, and assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Vietnam War
A quick comprehension check over the Vietnam War.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Vietnam War
Learn about the war that enmeshed the United States in a battle against communism in Southeast Asia for more than twenty years.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Emmett Till
Read about the brutal murder of a fourteen-year-old boy that became a rallying point for the Civil Rights Movement.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Learn about the Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: African American Veterans and Civil Rights
Learn about Dorie Miller, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers and other African American veterans who played a role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about the origins, strategies, and unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Start of the Cold War the Yalta Conference
Learn how the end of World War II contributed to the rise of the Cold War.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Anticommunism in the 1950s
Learn about the Rosenberg trial, HUAC, and Joseph McCarthy.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Cold War (1945 1980)
A quick comprehension check over the Cold War.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Korean War
Learn about the first hot war in the Cold War: Korea.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Start of the Cold War:berlin Airlift & Nato
Learn about the Berlin airlift, NATO, and the National Security Act.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Cold War Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
Read about the US's early attempts to contain communism through economic and military aid.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Dark Side of Suburbia
Some background information that sheds light on how suburbia wasn't paradise for everyone especially women and African Americans in the 1950s and 60s.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Growth of Suburbia
Learn about Levittown and housing benefits for veterans.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Baby Boom
Find out why there were so many babies born in the United States after World War II.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: African Americans, Women, and the Gi Bill
Female and minority veterans faced difficulties accessing their GI Bill benefits.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Red Scare
A quick comprehension check over the Red Scare.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Japanese Internment
Unfounded fears that Japanese American citizens might sabotage the war effort led Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order that all Americans of Japanese descent be forced into internment camps.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Fdr and World War Ii
After leading the United States through nearly a decade of Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took on the role of Commander-in-Chief when the United States entered the Second World War.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 was a "date which will live in infamy," according to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese led the United States to enter World War II.