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Creation of Israel
On May 14,1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment state of Israel -
Creation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.N. with the U.S. as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea , China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
In August, a three-judge panel at the U. S. District Court unanimously held in the Brown v. Board of Education case that "no willful, intentional or substantial discrimination" existed in Topeka’s schools. The U. S. District Court found that the physical facilities in White and Black schools were comparable and that the lower court’s decisions in Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin only applied to graduate education. -
Creation Of Warsaw Pact
The warsaw pact was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, -
Little Rock Nine
On September 3, 1957, the Little Rock Nine arrived
to enter Central High School, but they were turned
away by the Arkansas National Guard. Governor
Orval Faubus called out the Arkansas National
Guard the night before to, as he put it, “maintain
and restore order...” The soldiers barred the
African American students from entering. -
Launching Of Sputnik
During the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were working to develop new technology. Nazi Germany had been close to developing the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) near the end of the Second World War. -
U-2 Spy Incident
The U-2 Incident. Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission -
Greensboro SIt -ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina.In 1960 which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. Starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated On November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, -
24th Amendment
On this date 1962, the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections by a vote of 295 to 86.At the time five states maintained poll taxes. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system during 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States[5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the U.S. more directly into the Vietnam War. It involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the U.S. in the waters. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Malcom X Assassination
On Feb, 21, 1965, the former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem -
Bloody Sunday In Selma, Alabama(march from Selma to Montgomery)
On March 7th, 1965, state troopers brutally assaulted peacful civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. In January 1965, Martin Luther King Jr., came to the city and gave the backing of the Southern Christian Leadership. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. The act significantly widened the franchise and is considered among the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. -
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United states supreme court which invalidated laws interracial marriage. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination
Dr. King was killed by James Earl Ray in April 1968 as he stood on a balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race,color, religion, or national origin. -
WoodStock
No matter how the young men and their lawyers spun it, the citizens of Wallkill did not want a bunch of drugged-out hippies descending on their town. After much wrangling, the town of Wallkill passed a law on July 2, 1969 that effectively banned the concert from their vicinity. -
Kent State Protest
In May 1970, students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4, the Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam -
Domino Theory
Theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated at if one country in a region came under the influence of communism. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an invasion designed by the US government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.
