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Korean War Begins
Korean WarConflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953. The U.S, along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
CaseA 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "Seperate but Equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional.served as a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement, inspiring education reform everywhere and forming the legal means of challenging segregation in all areas of society. -
Rosa Parks incites Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.By her single unplanned act of defiance, she caused a chain of events that concluded with a United States Supreme Court decision prohibiting bus segregation and King's rise to national prominence.The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Sputnik launched
Sputnik LaunchedWhen the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.This was a technological achievement. -
John F. Kennedy is elected president
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States.Many observers believed that Kennedy’s charming performance during the four debates made the difference in the final vote.Kennedy's success in the debate launched a new era in American politcs- television age. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an incasion of Cuba. However nothing went as planned, this disaster left Knnedy embarrassed. Publicly, he accepted blame for the fiasco. -
Kennedys Assasination
kennedys Assasinationon November 22, 1963, presidential aircraft landed in Dallas, Tx. Both Mr. and Mrs. kennedy had come to Texas for political reasons. As the car approached a state building known as the Texas School Depository, Kennedy was shot in the head. He was taken to a hospital, where doctors tried to help but it was too late, president Kennedy was dead -
Environmental Protection Agency
The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection. -
Womens Equality
Womens EqualityHeld nation-wide, it brought out around 20,000 female protestors in D.C. , New York City elsewhere to demand equal rights for women. The march helped expand the women's movement.Marches for Womens Rights held for the second wave of femininsm -
Pentagon Papers
Pentagon PapersThe New York Times began publishing a series of articles based on the study, which was classified as “top secret” by the federal government. After the third daily installment appeared in the Times, the U.S. Department of Justice obtained in U.S. District Court a temporary restraining order against further publication of the classified material, -
Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage.The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address. Many historians believe that hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter a second term as president. -
Berlin Wall Demolition
The Berlin Wall was built to divide the East and West Berlin. It was built to keep the western Berlin people from coming and making changes to East Berlin. On Now,8,1989 it was set that it would be demulited
