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Joe McCarthy's career
Joe McCarthy had won the election for the first term senator from Wisconsin in 1946. McCarthy has given a speech that propelled him into the national spot light at the Ohio country Women's Republican Club in Wheeling West Virginia in February in 1950. -
Marshall plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, -
Berlin Airlift
2 million people in West Berlin sustained American Plane. Berlin Airlift begins in response to the Soviet blockade of the land into West Berlin. There was also a massive airlift of food, water and medicine to the citizens of the Besieged city of the United States of America -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Alliance is another name for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's also an intergovernmental military alliance, between 29 North America and European countries. -
First successful Soviet Nuclear weapon test
According to legends the Soviet physicists who worked on the bomb were honored for the achievement based on the penalties they would have suffered had the test had failed. -
Korean War
June 25 1950 Is when the war began, and it began because North Korean invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. In 1948 Korea had been split into two sovereign states as a product of the Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. -
Start of the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The trial with With and Julius Rosenberg Begins in New York Southern District federal court. There was a couple that was accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians from Judge R. Kaufman. -
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The Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States of America. He won by a landslide over Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election. In Congress Eisenhower was able to secure several victories, even though all but the first two years of his presidency, Democrats held the majority in both the Senate and in the House. He also expanded Social Security by continuing the New Deal programs. -
The Hungarian Uprising
It was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. When it first began it was leaderless, but it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the End of World War II in Europe. -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of (9) black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957.On the first day of classes at Central High on September 4, 1957, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. -
The Launch of Sputnik 1
The Launch of Sputnik, 1957. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch was a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, in witch who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
He was born in 1894 and died in 1971. He led the soviet union, during the height of the cold war as premier from 1958-1964. He positioned nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
Castro takes over in Cuba
Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba on February 16, 1959. He visited The U.S. on a charm offence, in April where President Eisenhower would not meet with him, but instead sent Vice President Richard Nixon, whom Castro instantly disliked. Castro attended an economic conference in Buenos Aires, unsuccessfully proposing a $30 billion U.S.-funded "Marshall Plan" for Latin American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#Consolidating_leadership:_1959%E2%80%931960 -
U2 spy plane shot down
The U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared on May 1, 1960 while on a flight over Russia. The CIA reassured the president that, the plane was equipped with self-destruct mechanism that would render and wreckage unrecognizable and the pilot was instructed to kill himself in such a situation in which if the plane was shot down -
John F. Kennedy elected to presidency
John F. Kennedy was an American politician and journalist who served as the 35th president of the United States. Until his assassination in November 1963. -
The First Man in Space
The first man on earth his name was Yuri Alekseyevich Gagari. He was 34 when he went to space. The 27 year old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. -
The First man In Space
The first man in space his name is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. He was the first person to be able to travel into space. It took about 89 minutes to get up into space. During the flight the 27 year old test pilot industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs failed the military invasion of Cuba, it was undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. In the year of 1951, Fidel Castro came to become in power in the armed revolt that overview Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Cuban missile crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff, in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security -
1963 March on Washington
The March was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963 on Washington. It was known for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
The Civil Acts of 1964 banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson First proposed by President John F. Kennedy. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act
