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By andrew viola

  • Start of Korean War

    America and The Soviet Union had used the conflict in a smaller country to pick sides and try to spread their political ideas

  • UN forces arrive in Korrea

    The conflict has first started and MacArthur is leading troops against the communists.

  • China Joins the Korean War

    After China joins the war, the North Koreans are getting more weapons because China joins their side as communists.

  • Truman fires MacArthur

    Because MacArthur and President Truman had conflicting ideas about how to continue the war, the president fired the general.

  • Civil Right Movement begins

    This was the movement by colored people towards being given equal rights.

  • Eisenhower becomes president

    after Truman’s presidency, General Eisenhower is elected because people respect him as leader

  • Nuclear Arms Race begins

    USA and USSR testing atomic bombs to defend against each other

  • Korean War ends

  • Fighting in Korea ends

    A cease fire is negotiated and fighting between North Korea and South Korea is ended. Americans start to pull out of Korea.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    trial provides all with separate but equal rights

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks sat in seats for white people on bus, refuesed to get up for a white man, arrested for doing so

  • Warsaw pack formed

  • Civil rights

    Colored people no longer segregated

  • USSR tanks to Poland

    to suppress demonstrations by workers

  • National guard

    National Guard called by government to prevent some African Americans to attend all white school in Arkansas

  • Sputnik launched

    USSR satellite in orbit

  • Explorer I launched

    USA satellite in orbit

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins were popular types of non-violent protest

  • JFK elected President of USA

  • Vietcong created

    infamous North Vietmanese Vietcong created to serve as military

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    People trained by CIA invaded Cuba to try to stop communism

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • JFK assasinated, Dallas TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    aftrer incident,congress passed the resolution giving president in war decisions

  • vietnam war

    the war to stop the spred of comunism.

  • 200,000 US troops to be sent to Vietnam

  • tet offensive

    Vietcong launch large attack on South Vietnamese cities on holiday of Tet. People realize that no matter where they are or when it is, they aren't safe from Vietcong attack

  • MLK killed

    Martin Luther King, Jr is killed by a white man in Memphis, Tenn. His birthday is declared a national holiday

  • President Johnson does not run for presidency

  • Richard Nixon elected President of USA

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 lands on the moon and USA is the first people to walk on the moom.

  • nixon extends vietnam war

    Nixon instaed of ending the war go to Cambodia.

  • nixon

    Nixon went to China to talk with the leaders.

  • Cease fire in Vietnam

    after more fighting, cease fire agreed between N and S Vietnam and American troops begin to pull out

  • Nixon

    Nixon resigns because of Water gate scandle.

  • N Vietnam victory

    after cease fire, N Vietnam breaks promise, invades and conquers S Vietnam. America failed to prevent spread of communism

  • vietnam

    North Vietnam defeats South vietnam now a communist country

  • Reagan/Gorbachev make agreement

    Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Missiles removed

    Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles

  • soviet union

    The end of the Soviet Union and Cold War