History

Timeline created by emma.stasi

Timeline Text view

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
09/02/1945	End of World War 2	The day Japan formally surrendered. The ceremonies ending the War took place on the battleship the USS Missouri and lasted less than a half an hour.
05/17/1954	Brown v. Board of Education decision	Court tuled that segregation itself violated the Equal PArotection Clause, commenting that in Public Education, separate but equal" has no place.
12/01/1955	Rosa Parks Incident	In MOntgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African American refused to give up her seat in the "colored" section of the bus to a white man. The bus driver then called the police and Parks was arrested. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
09/04/1957	Little Rock Nine Incident	When nine African American students attempted to enter Central High, the governor calledc out the National Guard and they were turned away. The next day schools were forced to desegregate.
10/04/1957	Sputnik Launched	The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite.
05/01/1960	U-2 Incident	During the Cold War, when an AMerican U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
04/17/1961	Bays of Pigs Invasion	An unsuccesful attempt to overthtrow the Cuban government dicator Fidel Castro, by the United States-backed Cuban exiles.
04/16/1963	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr., while he was in Birmingham Jail, to his fellow Clergies about American Civil Rights.
08/28/1963	March On Washington	March in Washington D.C. of over 250,000 people, led by Martin Luther King Jr,, to promote Civil Rights and racial equality.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
12/05/1955 to 04/23/1956	Montgomery Bus Boycott	Sparked by Rosa Parks, a boycott in which people refuse to use public transportation services to stand up for their rights. This lasted for 13 months, until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
10/22/1962 to 10/28/1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	Period of time when the Unites State's Kennedy and the Soviet Union's Khrushchev stood on the edge of a Nuclear War. The U.S. demanded that the S.U. remove the missiles from Cuba. Khrushchev agreed as lon as the U.S. removed theirs from Turkey and Italy.