LAD # 37: Brown V. Board

Summary of Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas -

In 1951, Kansas' District Court held the case involving a young African American who wanted to attend a school for white children.  This girl's father, Oliver Brown, requested the NAACP's help to forbid segregation in public schools.  The Board of Education said that this segregation in schools was to prepare the children for future segregation as adults.  The Board won, but then Brown appealed to the Supreme Court where they ruled in favor of Brown.

LAD #36: Truman Doctrine

Summary of the Truman Doctrine -

President Truman addressed Congress on March 12, 1947.  He declares that Greece has a desperate need for economic aid to stay a free country.  Turkey is another country in need of American aid.  The U.S. is the only democratic country able to help out and provide support.  It is in America's best interest to air so that totalitarianism does not spread any further.  Otherwise "we may endanger the peace of the world... and the welfare of our own nation."

LAD #35: FDR's Executive Order #9066

Summary of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 -

Executive order 9066 gave the Secretay of War the right to create military areas.  He says that to be successful in times of war, every protective action is necessary.  This order includes providing medical aid, food clothing, transportation, etc.  This also allowed for the Japanese-Americans to be ushered into internment camps.  This order is not to be modified due to a previous proclamation that created regulations in regard to alien enemies

LAD #34: FDR's Declaration of War Speech

Summary of FDR's Declaration of War -

Roosevelt delivered his Pearl Harbor Address the day after the tragic event occurred.  It is a day that will live in infamy, he states.  He discusses the peace that was once between America and Japan and the peace that can no longer exist due to the deliberate, vicious attack.  He incites hope and faith into Americans, and he asks Congress for a Declaration of War due to the unprovoked attack.

LAD #33: FDR's First Inaugural Address

Summary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address -

In 1933, FDR gave his first inaugural address in which he discusses the problems that America was facing.  Roosevelt believes that the nothing to fear is fear itself, so he will deal with these issues honestly.  He talks about the high level of unemployment in the country and to remedy that, the government must he come involved.  He says that everyone must work together to bring the U.S. back to its once prosperous state.  They must 'declare war' on The Great Depression.

LAD #32: Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

Summary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact

On July 24, 1929, this pact renounced war as an instrument of national policy for all countries that signed it.  This pact was originally between the U.S. and France, but the Secretary of State, Frank Kellogg, opened this pact to all who wanted to sign.  Notable countries that signed this pact were Britain, Italy, and Germany, to name a few.  This treaty sought to deal with countries through peace rather than war.

LAD #31: Wilson's Fourteen Points

Summary of Wilson's 14 Points -

President Woodrow Wilson delivered his fourteen points of his peace policy to Congress.  The fourteen points are as follows:
1. All diplomatic negotiations will be public knowledge.
2. Freedom of the seas.
3. Equal trade between all nations.
4. Reduction of arm numbers.
5. Have an open mind and impartiality towards colonial claims.
6. Leave Russia and allow them to be self ruling.
7. Belgium is also to be evacuated and freed.
8. France regains its territories and Alsace-Lorraine.
9. Clearly establish Italy's borders.
10. Allow Austria-Hungary the chance to self rule.
11. Balkan states must have established lines between them and independence.
12. Turkey gets its sovereignty and Dardanelles remains open for all.
13. Poland is to be established as an independent country with freedom of the seas.
14. An association of nations (League of Nations) is to be created to assure freedom of the seas and independence of smaller countries.