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He is a Democrat from Missouri. He was first elected in 1945 and also won is second term in 1948 and also a vice president for 82 days
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On September 2, 1945, was when Japan signed the surrender documents which ended WWII. Forcing surrender after 2 atomic bombs were dropped in Japan. Marking VJ day the end of WWII. -
Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam from France. The proclamation paraphrased the U.S. Declaration of Independence in declaring, “All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!” -
The Truman Doctrine was arose from a speech delivered by President Truman before the joint session of Congress. This speech making a policy that the US supported the free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities. -
President Truman Signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 on April 3, 1948. Which was know as the Marshall Plan. This allowed a 4 year plan to reconstruct any cities, infrastructure, and industries that were damaged during the war. Also removing trade barriers between Europe and its neighbors. -
The Berlin Airlift was used to response to the Soviet Blockade of land routes into West Berlin. For nearly a year, supplies from the American planes sustained over 2 million people in West Berlin.
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The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was created on April 4, 1949. This organization was created by the US, Canada, and several Western European nations. With this organization it provided collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War was a battle between North Korea and South Korea. On June 25 1950 was when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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This was an event that expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways. It has been widely recognized that the court, led by the liberal bloc, has created a major "Constitutional Revolution" in the history of United States.
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Dwight was a Republican from Kansas and served as the president for 8 straight years. He took over the office Beating out Adlai Stevenson in the election.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier in Plessy v. Ferguson expanding the civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s. -
The Geneva Agreements were signed. As part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country. -
The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist control two years later.
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Rosa Parks' decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track. Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. -
This counterculture was an era of difference in identity, family unit, dress, sexuality, and arts. It was a time when youth rejected social norms and exhibited their disapproval o racial ethnic, and political injustices through resistance.
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The pig invasion was a failed attack launched by the CIA to push the Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. We invaded the Bay of Pigs because it was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the CIA to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for an armed attack on Cuba.
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This wall became the symbol of the Cold War. Also tangible manifestation of the world's separation into two distinct ideological blocs. They built this wall to keep the Western so called "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. -
American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. Khrushchev that would see the Soviets remove the missiles in exchange that the U.S. would not invade the Island. The U.S. won by giving in to Khrushchev's demands.
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This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
It started with the Senate approving the Limited Nuclear Test Ban on Sept. 23, 1963. Later on Oct. 7, 1963 Kennedy signed the ratified Treat. This Treaty cause prohibits nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963 following the assassination of President Kennedy and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
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The Stonewall Riots were followed by several days of demonstrations in New York and was the impetus for the formation of the Gay Liberation Front as well as other gay, lesbian and bisexual civil rights organizations. It's also regarded by many as history's first major protest on behalf of equal rights for homosexuals. -
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault.
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It occurred when Charlie Company was ordered to enter the village for a search and destroy mission. Still stinging from human losses in their unit during the Tet Offensive, Charlie Company vented their rage on the villagers at My Lai. -
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities. -
On June 5, 1968, shortly after midnight, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was pronounced dead at 1:44 a.m. PDT the following day. -
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America and was the only president to resign the office. Nixon's was the most celebrated achievements as the President.
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The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. At the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first human to step on the moon. Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. He was the first of 12 people who landed on the Moon. -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women. Its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women. -
The Roe v. Wade Ruling, 1973. In its 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized that the right to liberty in the Constitution, which protects personal privacy, includes the right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy. -
Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States of America upon the resignation of Richard Nixon from the office. With him in the office Ford signed the Helsinki Accords.
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Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States of America after beating Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. With him in the office he reforms to the country's welfare, health care, and tax systems but was unsuccessful.
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Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States of America. He enacted a major tax cut, sought to cut non-military spending, and eliminated federal regulations.
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The border between East and West Germany was opened on November 9, 1989, following anti-government protests in East Germany and the democratization of other eastern and central European states. The Berlin Wall was actually a system of barriers that included two walls. In the system's final form, the outer wall, called the Vorderlandmauer, was 11.5–13 feet tall. -
The ADA guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy employment opportunities, purchase goods and services, and participate in state and local government programs. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's. Also its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full independence. The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbachev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union.