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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
China goes red
China created revolution -
Korean War Begins
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
United States tests the first hydrogen bomb
The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. -
Dwight Eisenhower is elected
The 42nd quadrennial presidential election and republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to 1932. -
Nikita Khrushchev replaces Joseph Stalin
Stalin's death created a power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev after several years of victorious against Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev denounced Stalin in two occasions -
Sputnik Launched
History was changed when this began, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball and weighed only 83.6 kg. It took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
President Kennedy was elected
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. -
Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall is constructed
When East Germans fled to the democratic West the Communist East German authorities built a wall that encircled West Berlin. It was built and put up overnight. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a Missile Scare and was a thirteen day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" Speech"
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
John F Kennedy assassinated
Assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
Among the passengers were the Beatles, on their first trip to the United States as a band, with their entourage of photographers and journalists, and Phil Spector. -
China explodes an atomic bomb
China successfully explode their first atomic bomb, launched first missile and detonated it's first hydrogen bomb. -
First NFL Football Super Bowl
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate. -
Tet Offensive
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Robert Kennedy fought organized crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. He also served as a close advisor to the president. -
Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
American astronauts land on the moon
Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module. -
Woodstock concert
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. -
Watergate burglaries
Five men were discovered inside the DNC office and arrested. They were Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, James McCord and Eugenio Martínez who were charged with attempted burglary. -
Paris Peace Accords end in the Vietnam War
Officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty. -
President Nixon resigns
He resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After this, he was issued a controversial pardon by his successor who was Gerald Ford -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days. -
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border. -
President Reagan is shot
President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington D.C. as they were leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel. -
The Russians send their first man to space-
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
President Ronald Reagan brought down the wall. Many Americans believe that Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech in Berlin created the conflict to tear the actual wall down. -
Mikhael Gorbachev assumes control in the Soviet Union
On the research it does not say anything about this topic but it says the date that he was elected president of the Soviet Union which was the date that I put into the date area for the event. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Officially granted self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.
