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The war ended with the victory of the Allies over Germany and Japan in 1945.
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Mr. Brown enrolled his daughter into an all white school. The school denied her because she was black.
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Rosa did not give up her seat to a white man. The bus driver called the Police and Rose Parks went to jail.
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protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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Nine African American students try to go into Central High School. The Police stop them from entering the High School. Finally the issue goes to the president and then they are allowed into the high school.
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The Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1. The worlds first artificial satellite. It started the Space Race.
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The Soviet Union sent over a plane to spy on our country.
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unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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The world was scared at what could happen. The Cuban missile crisis came to and end because Kennedy and Khrushchev made an agreement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter in jail from he's non-violent protest. The letter was about racial segregation.
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the world changed with a major protest of over 250,000 participants. One of the biggest civial rights movements. Located in Washington D.C.