Battle of the Coral Sea

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1960s America was marked by the literal moonshot goal of putting a man on the moon to overshadow Cold War and Vietnam War anxieties. The 60s also saw movements in civil rights, love, drugs, and music, before turning violent near the end of the decade.

Pocahontas was born in Virginia around 1596 and was given her name which translates to “playful one” or “ill-behaved child.” Although legend has it that Pocahontas was in love with John Smith, it was John Rolfe with whom she actually married and bore a child.

In response to the segregationist black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment expanded the civil and legal rights of all Americans, repealed the three-fifths clause and banned payments to former slaveholders for loss of human property and more.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor took months of planning and practice before 8:00 AM on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, when Japanese warplanes filled the sky over Honolulu, Hawaii, wreaking havoc on the American’s idle and unsuspecting Pacific Fleet.

Machu Picchu is a citadel perched 7,874 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes mountains. Although its purpose is debated by historians to this day, it is speculated that its role aided the Incas in astronomy and agriculture.

Project Blue Book was a secret military program to examine reports of UFOs to analyze threats to national security. Ultimately, the freedom of information act would uncover that while many UFO sightings had an explanation, hundreds were unexplainable.

Martin Luther King Jr was raised by a family of pastors and educated in theology before becoming a leading civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and martyr for racial activism.