"<span>the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand" is thought to be the spark that lit the powder-keg </span>of war at the beginning of the 20th century. A dense web of alliances was set off from this shooting.
Strom Thurmond did not challenge the status quo.
Thurgood Marshall argued cases like <em>Brown v. The Board of Education </em>before the US Supreme Court, and later (in 1967) became a Supreme Court justice -- the first African-American justice to serve on the court.
As president, Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which abolished racial segregation in the US military.
Jackie Robinson was the first black player to play in Major League Baseball.
Strom Thurmond was a US Senator from South Carolina who sought to protect the status quo against the civil rights movement.
The Second Indochina War (aka the Vietnam War) began as a conflict between the South Vietnamese army and government, and the communist Viet Cong. The United States publicly supported the South Vietnamese government but didn't want to join the war unless absolutely necessary.
1. Representatives gather at tennis court
2. Hungry woman march
3. King Louie is executed
4. Marie Antoinette is executed
5. Napoleon rises to power
