Nikita Khrushchev  became the Russian leader after Stalin.

    1955 Geneva Summit  Khrushchev met with Eisenhower in the first face-to-face meeting since WW II.

    U-2  American spy plane that was shot down over Soviet airspace.

Watch U2 Spy Plane 3min video Questions: What did pilots call the U2? glider  What was the cruising altitude of the U2? 7200feet Who was the pilot of the U2 that was shot down? Gary Powers  After his conviction how many years did Powers spend in jail? 18 months  Why was he fired from Lockheed? damaging revelations about the CIA in his autobiography

    Nasser President of Egypt who seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain in 1956.

    Sputnik  first space satellite launched by the Soviets in 1957.

    Explorer I  NASA launched America's first satellite in 1958        Watch Explorer I 8 min video Questions:  What does JPL stand for? Jet Propulsion Laboratory  What did the scientist want to call the satellite? Deal or High Ball How did Explorer give the US parity with the Soviets? we both had a satellite in space

Watch Vanguard Satellite: America's oldest satellite in space 3min video:  Questions: What happens to the first and second Vanguard satellites? blew up on liftoff   What major inovations did the Vanguard satellite have? solar power

    By the 1950s many Americans saw that the time had come to end racial prejudice.

    1.  Black Americans were the first group t0 achieve more opportunities.

    2.  Jackie Robinson  first black major league baseball player.

    3.  Marian Anderson one of the greatest opera singers of the age.

4.  Civil Rights Movement  led by Martin Luther King Jr.

5.  Brown vs. Board of Ed  Supreme Court decision that called for the desegregation (racial integration) of all public schools.

Watch Little Rock Central High School Desegregation 5 min video

6.  Rosa Parks famous black arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus.

    Read pg 463.  What happened in Arkansas in 1957?

    Martin Luther King Jr.  led nonviolent marches in Washington D. C. and in the South.

Photo Credits:

Little Rock: www.loc.gov/exhibits/ brown/images/br0123s.jpg

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list the early leaders in the Civil Rights movement.

2. explain the difference between Brown vs Board of ED and Little Rock 9

3. describe the African American Social Reforms

4. chart on a map the place where the U2 spy plane went down.

5. define the terms Geneva Summit, U2, Nasser

6. Explain the significance of  Sputnik, and Explorer I

Knowledge: Recall of data. Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words. Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace. Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.  Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.