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The Space Race
On the 3rd October 1942, German scientists launched an A-4 rocket, which travelled 118 miles and rose to an altitude of over 50 miles -
Cold War
The Yalta Conference occurs, deciding the post-war status of Germany. The Allies of World War II (the USA, the USSR, Great Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. The Allied nations agree that free elections are to be held in all countries occupied by Nazi Germany. In addition, the new United Nations are to replace the failed League of Nations -
The Korean war
After two months of costly attacks, the Chinese army was exhausted. Starting on 25 January 1951, Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway's Eighth Army, assisted by land and sea-based airpower, pushed northward in a sharp series of carefully-planned offensives -
Civil Rights Movement
Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are by nature unequal. Schools are ordered to desegregate "with all deliberate speed" -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954 -
vietnam war
North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters (the Gulf of Tonkin Incident). -
joseph McCarthy McCarthism
Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion -
Emmett Till's murder
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
The little Rock Nine
The first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering -
the first xerox machine got to market
Inventor Chester Carlson used static electricity created with a handkerchief, light and dry powder to make the first copy on Oct. 22, 1938. The copier didn't get on to the market until 1959, more than 20 years later. When it did, the Xerox machine prompted a dramatic change in the workplace. -
George Wallace Governor of Alabama
George Wallace is inaugurated as the governor of Alabama, promising his followers, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" His inauguration speech was written by Ku Klux Klan leader Asa Carter, who later reformed his white supremacist beliefs and wrote The Education of Little Tree under the pseudonym of Forrest Carter -
Assassination of john F. Kennedy
Kennedy was travelling in an open top car through the streets of Dallas when three loud rifle shots rang through the air, apparently shot from the sixth floor of the nearby Book -
Malcom X
As Malcolm X led a mass rally in Harlem on February 21, 1965, rival Black Muslims gunned him down -
Hippie Culture (music, clothing beliefs)
In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He is one of only four people[1] who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. -
Marthuin Luther KIng, Jr
King was shot by JAMES EARL RAY. Spontaneous violence spread through urban areas as mourners unleashed their rage at the loss of their leader. Rioting burst forth in many American cities. -
woodstock 1969
a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. The festival is also widely considered to be the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. He has second thoughts a few days later and rescinds his approval. -
War Protest
Protesters camped out in masses on the edges of downtown Washington on May 2, 1971. -
first fully functional space shuttle orbiter
March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage. -
olympic games
February 13, 1980 - The opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics Games are held in Lake Placid, New York -
john lennon's murder
‘ musician John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York City apartment on the night of Dec. 8, 1980. Lennon and wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him at close range -
Assassination attemprt of Ronald Reagan
The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency.Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest and in the lower right arm. He suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding, but prompt medical attention allowed him to recover quickly -
Technological Advances of the Time
While there were several variations on the idea of the personal computer pre-1980s, including the Apple II, it was IBM that coined the term when it released the IBM 5150 on 12 August 1981. -
HIV/Aids
CDC hosts a national conference to determine blood bank policy blood for testing blood for HIV, but participants fail to reach consensus on appropriate action. -
The Falling of The Berline wall/fall of communism/ breakup of soviet union
thousands of jubilant Germans brought down the most visible symbol of division at the heart of Europe—the Berlin Wall.But just as the Wall had come to represent the division of Europe, its fall came to represent the end of the Cold War. -
The Twenty-second Amendment
The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.
