Cold War
Ended the blanket exclusion of immigrants based on race and created the foundation for current immigration law, but imposed a racialized immigration quota system and new ideological grounds for exclusion
Term for tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, the two major world powers after WW2, lasting from 1945-1989
Post- World War 2 Red Scare focused on the fear of Communists in the U.S. government positions; peaked during the Korean War; most closely associated with Joseph McCarthy, a major instigator of the hysteria.
A 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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