Cold War to Civil Right

By corlissaacoppedge

  • Korean War

    North Korea War invades South Korean with 135,000 men, initiating Korean war.

  • March 17, 1954

    The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

  • Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

  • Cuban MIssile Crisis

    For 13 days in October 1962, the world wiated, seemingly on the brink of nuclear war, and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the cuban Missile Crisis.

  • John F. Kennedy is killed

  • 1st man on the moon